Publications By PHI — Workforce related
Michigan’s Care Gap: Our emerging health care workforce crisis (pdf), April 2003.
Examines the mismatch of the supply of unlicensed direct-care workers and the demand for services and supports that is creating an instability that threatens the quality and sheer availability of health care services for thousands of Michigan’s citizens who live with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
Expanding the “registry” concept: Creating access to care for consumers and employment for care workers (pdf), January 2008
This presentation explores the background and purpose of worker registries and the application of the registry model to the area of home- and community-based services.
Opportunity Partnership & Empowerment Network (OPEN): A case study of an effective employee retention project (pdf), November 2007
This case study explains how the Health Field Collaborative (HFC) came together — and worked together — to create the Opportunity Partnership & Empowerment Network (OPEN) to successfully address a critical local need.
State Facts: Michigan’s Direct-Care Workforce (pdf), September 2011
The eight-page document reveals that while demand for workers is at a historic high and growing, the labor pool is shrinking and poor job quality is adding to the difficulty of attracting and keeping new workers.
Publications By PHI — Health Care for Health Care Workers
When Michigan Caregivers Lack Coverage: Findings from a Survey of Michigan’s Home Help Workforce (pdf), February 2007
Provides information on the lack of adequate and affordable health insurance coverage for Home Help providers and how it impacts their lives, Michigan’s vital long-term care system, and the larger health care industry.
Beyond Reach? Michigan long-term care employers are struggling to provide health coverage for employees (pdf), May 2008
Examines the challenges faced by Michigan long-term care employers in relation to providing health coverage to employees including the roles of public funding, part-time work, and workforce characteristics.
Other Publications
- Voices from the Front: Recruitment and retention of direct-care workers in long-term care across Michigan (pdf), April 2004
- Modernizing Michigan Medicaid: Towards an integrated system of services and supports (pdf), May 2005
- Knowledge and skills needed for dementia care: A guide for direct-care workers in everyday language (pdf), 2008
- State Profile Report (pdf), (2009)
- A labor of love: Assessing the status of the direct care workforce in the Tri-County area (pdf), 2005.
Hollis Turnham (read 
Tameshia Bridges (read 
Cean Eppelheimer (read 