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		<title>NCCNHR&#8217;s New Name, Expanded Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Citizens&#8217; Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) has changed its name, reorganized, and expanded its national advocacy priorities. NCCNHR is now The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care &#8212; a modification of its tagline &#8212; or the &#8220;Consumer Voice&#8221; for short. The Consumer Voice has broadened its federal advocacy efforts to include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY State Legislators Hear from Home Health Aides About Inadequate Wages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Cooperative Home Care Associates&#8216; Policy Action Group (PAG) met with New York state legislators in Albany on February 23 and 24 to discuss the unfair treatment of home health aides. Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), an affiliate of PHI, is the largest worker-owned home care company in the country. Its PAG consists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mexico Direct Caregivers Coalition Seeks Executive Director</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/new-mexico-direct-caregivers-coalition-seeks-executive-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when many nonprofit organizations are struggling to survive, the New Mexico Direct Caregivers Coalition (NMDCC) is establishing itself as a strong advocate. Founded last year, the coalition gives family caregivers as well as professional direct-care workers the opportunity to speak out on various workforce issues in a unified voice. The coalition is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eldercare Workforce Alliance Takes Health Reform Message to Congress</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/eldercare-workforce-alliance-takes-health-reform-message-to-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dozens of eldercare workforce advocates and constituents went to Capitol Hill on September 15 to let Congress know that a strong eldercare workforce is essential to real health reform. The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), co-chaired by Steven L. Dawson, PHI president, and Nancy Lundebjerg, vice president and chief operating officer of the American Geriatrics Society, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW &#8211; Bill Thomas: Nursing Home Abolitionist</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/a-pioneer-looks-at-culture-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Thomas calls himself “a nursing home abolitionist.” “I want them to go away,” he says. “Our greatest adversary is the institutional mindset. That must go.&#8221; Talk of culture change doesn&#8217;t matter as long as people retain an attitude of elders as &#8220;the helpless inmates of total institutions,&#8221; he says. Looking back on the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper Explores LTC Crisis in own Backyard</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/newspaper-explores-the-ltc-crisis-in-own-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the challenge of caring for America&#8217;s aging population intensifies, the issue is beginning to get the increased newspaper coverage it deserves. Case in point: an in-depth series that has been offered up from a small daily paper out of Utah (hat tip to The New Old Age). Gray Area: Utah As It Ages features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: McCain vs. Obama on LTC</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/presidential-candidates-skip-over-long-term-care/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/presidential-candidates-skip-over-long-term-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JavaScript needs to be enabled for polling to work.&#60;br /&#62; &#60;a href=&#8221;http://www.constantcontact.com/survey/index.jsp?cc=ViraWidPOL&#8221;&#62;Online Surveys&#60;/a&#62; by Constant Contact.&#60;br /&#62; One hour into the final presidential debate last night, Barack Obama answered a question about the country’s health care crisis, remarking that the issue “will break your heart over and over again.” The candidates took this final debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garrison Keillor Spotlights PA Home Health Aide</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/home-health-aide-gets-garrison-keillor-mention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 6, a story by the Philadelphia Inquirer examined the challenges faced by Karen Goroncy (pictured left), a 51-year-old home health aide in Pennsylvania without health coverage. The next day, Garrison Keillor (pictured below), best known for his radio show &#8220;A Prairie Home Companion&#8221; and his stories of Lake Wobegon, referenced Goroncy&#8217;s situation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Candidates Discuss the Caregiving Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/care-for-aging-not-in-town-hall-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/care-for-aging-not-in-town-hall-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, PHI submitted &#8212; and asked you to submit &#8212; the following question to the Oct 7 &#8220;town hall&#8221; presidential debate: By 2016, we will need a million more direct-care workers to care for our elders. But direct-care jobs pay poverty wages and have massive rates of turnover. How will you ensure that America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submit a Presidential Debate Question</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/submit-presidential-debate-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oct. 7th &#8220;Town Hall&#8221; debate between presidential candidates Obama and McCain is accepting questions from the public. All questions will be forwarded to moderator Tom Brokaw for consideration. PHI submitted the following question: By 2016, we will need a million more direct-care workers to care for our elders. But direct-care jobs pay poverty wages and have [...]]]></description>
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