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		<title>In Brief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three brief stories on direct care: CMS proposes guidelines for State Balancing Incentive Payments Program; direct-care worker groups in AZ and FL to hold annual meetings; Des Moines Register editorializes for quality caregiver jobs.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Organizations Celebrate Direct-Care Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest commentary by Henry Schemper, program director at the Arizona Direct Care Worker Association.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Direct-Care Worker Conference to Be Held in September</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Direct Care Worker Association (ADCWA) will hold its annual fall conference in Tucson on September 29. ]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Republic Reports on Growing Need for Home Care Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Republic cited PHI research in an column about the skyrocketing demand for direct care &#8212; especially home care &#8212; and the problems that could cause for the aging Baby Boomer generation. Over the next decade, demand for direct care is predicted to increase by 35 percent, far outpacing the projected growth of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Rules on Adequacy of AZ Home and Community-Based Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A court order has been issued in one of the country&#8217;s most long-running and high-visibility Medicaid class action law suits affecting home and community-based services. In Ball v. Betlach, a U.S. District Court Judge ruled on March 8 that Arizona&#8217;s Medicaid program failed to follow the court&#8217;s prior orders by not implementing a statewide hotline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Budget Woes Cut into Home Care Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[States across the U.S. are suffering from a variety of recession-related budget woes, and, as reported by The New York Times in a front-page story last weekend (“States Slashing Social Programs for Vulnerable,” April 11), many are responding by “slicing into their social safety nets &#8212; often crippling preventive efforts that officials say would save [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial Calls for Better Wages, Benefits, Training for DCWs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;According to the Department of Labor, direct care is the fourth-fastest-growing job category in the nation but is noted as one of the ‘10 worst jobs in America,&#8217; next to those who clean portable restrooms,&#8221; says Judith B. Clinco in an editorial in the Arizona Daily Star. &#8220;Most direct-care workers receive inadequate training, inadequate wages, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of Progress in the Mainstream Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re having some doubts about whether public perception of direct-care workers is improving, a recent run of insightful stories in local papers may give you some hope. Two stories in Vermont papers, one in the April 7 St. Albans Messenger and one in the April 4 Brattleboro Reformer, covered a new study about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Orders Arizona to Raise Home Care Pay Rates</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/judge-orders-arizona-to-raise-home-care-pay-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/judge-orders-arizona-to-raise-home-care-pay-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 20, 2004 &#8211; A federal district judge has ruled that Arizona must raise wages for attendant care workers and personal care workers in order to ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries receive the home- and community-based services they are entitled to. The Court’s decision in Ball v. Biedess follows four and a half years of litigation [...]]]></description>
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