By PHI – Workforce related
New York’s Home Care Aide Workforce: A Framing Paper (November 2010)
Provides a context for understanding the major issues that shape the jobs of the home care workforce in New York State: wages, benefits, training, and opportunities for advancement.
Preparing New York’s Home Care Aides for the 21st Century: Overcoming Fragmentation, Inadequate Training, and Limited Quality Control (November 2010)
Examines the current system of training home care aides in New York State, and makes recommendations for building a workforce development system that can meet the needs of the 21st century.
Improving Wages for New York’s Home Care Aides: Options for Payment and Contract Reform (November 2010)
Outlines factors that have suppressed wages for home health aides and a series of actions designed to improve both wages and the quality of the care by changing employer and payer practices.
New York’s Home Care Aide Workforce: An Executive Summary (November 2010)
An executive summary of a series of reports prepared by Carol A. Rodat, PHI New York Policy Director.
PHI State Facts: NYC’s Home Care Workforce (December 2010)
A fact sheet examining the home care workforce in New York City, home to one of the largest home care workforces in the country.
Addressing NYC’s Care Gap: Aligning Workforce Policy to Support Home- and Community-Based Care (October 2006)
A paper prepared for the New York City Workforce Investment Board to focus attention on an important and long-overlooked segment of workers in New York City—those who provide home- and community-based care to elders and people with disabilities.
By PHI – Health Care for Health Care Workers
Is New York Prepared to Care? A Comprehensive Coverage Solution for Home Care Workers (May 2009)
This report offers the first statewide review and analysis of insurance coverage of home care workers in New York and, in response, provides specific recommendations to strengthen coverage for this essential workforce.
This study was conducted to help policymakers understand the extent to which home care agencies in upstate New York and Long Island offer health insurance to their direct-care workers, the eligibility requirements and enrollment rates for health insurance, the type of health insurance offerings available to this workforce, and the cost to both employers and employees.
PODCAST: Rodat on Covering NY Caregivers (April 2009)
PHI NY policy director Carol Rodat discusses the importance of providing health coverage for New York’s home care workers.
Other Publications
- Know Your Rights: Continuing Your Ongoing Treatment While Transitioning from Medicaid into Medicaid with a Health Plan (Medicaid Matters New York, October 2011)
- Attention Individuals Who Receive Personal Care: Your Personal Care Services Are Now a Part of the Medicaid Managed Care Package (Medicaid Matters New York, October 2011)
- Attention Restricted Recipients: The Way You Receive Your Medicaid Benefits is Changing! (Medicaid Matters New York, October 2011)
- The Personal Care Benefit (Medicaid Matters New York, October 2011)
- Care And Oversight Of Assisted Living In New York State (LTCCC, May 2011)
- Medicaid in New York: Current Roles, Recent Experience, and Implications of Federal Reform (UHF, December 2010)
- New York State Medicaid Administration Report (NYS Department of Health, November 2010)
- A Home and Community-Based Service System Reform Blueprint (ICS/PHI, November 2010)
- No Easy Solution: Effective Medicaid Cost Control Must Focus on the Elderly and Disabled (Citizens Budget Commission, November 2010)
- Implementing Federal Health Care Reform: A Roadmap for New York State (NYS Health Foundation, August 2010)
- Medicaid Policy and Long-Term Care Spending (Rockefeller Institute of Government, August 2010)
- Bending the Health Care Cost Curve in New York State: Options for Saving Money and Improving Care (NYS Health Foundation, July 2010)
- Expanding Affordable Coverage for Low-Waged Workers: Fixing the Family Health Plus Employer Buy-in (Community Service Society of NY, June 2010)
- The Economic Impact of Healthcare Reform on New York’s Small Businesses (NYS Health Foundation, November 2009)
- The Role of Local Government in Administering Medicaid in NY (UHF, August 2009)
- An Overview of Medicaid LTC Programs in NY (UHF, May 2009)
- LTC Restructuring in New York State: A Consumer Perspective (LTCCC, May 2009)
- Medicaid and LTC: NY Compared to 18 Other States (Rockefeller Institute, February 2009)
- Toward An Age-Friendly New York City: A Findings Report (NYAM, Fall 2008)
- NY’s Single Point of Entry for LTC: A First Year Assessment of Consumer Experience with Recommendations for the Future (LTCCC, May 2008)
- Mental Health is Key to Long-Term Care (Geriatric MHA of NYC, January 2008)
- Workforce Development to Meet the Mental Health Needs of Older Adults (Geriatric MHA of NYC, October 2007)
- A Plan to Stabilize and Strengthen New York’s Health Care System (Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, December 2006)
- Administration of Medicaid in NY State: Key Players and Their Roles (UHF, November 2006)
Carol Rodat
Meghan Shineman