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	<description>PHI works to improve long-term care -- by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, &#38; personal care attendants.</description>
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		<title>Innovative Practices Profiled in Two New PHI Case Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New England-based company that manages dozens of senior living communities and an Alabama long-term care facility are profiled in the latest case studies in PHI's The Business of Caregiving series.]]></description>
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		<title>Stakeholders Meet to Discuss Strategies for Direct-Care Workforce Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dozens of stakeholders gathered in Washington, D.C., on May 26 for an in-depth examination of innovations in practice and policy for bolstering the direct-care workforce in the eldercare and disability services sector.]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Convenes Direct Service Workforce Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 8, Ohio's Long-Term Direct Service Workforce Initiative convened a unique meeting of health and human services stakeholders to provide input regarding a unified strategy for improving the long-term direct service workforce in Ohio.]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations Honored for Jobs to Careers</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/foundations-honored-for-jobs-to-careers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 27, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Hitachi Foundation jointly received the 2010 Critical Impact Award from The Council on Foundations, in recognition of their work on a program that benefits frontline healthcare workers. Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care improves skill-building and career advancement opportunities for low-wage workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: PHI to Manage Vermont Career Ladder Program for PCAs</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/press-release-phi-to-manage-vermont-career-ladder-program/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/press-release-phi-to-manage-vermont-career-ladder-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE For immediate release July 6, 2009 Contact: Alex Olins PHI Northern New England Director Phone: (802) 655-4615 Email: aolins@PHInational.org Rewarding Skill and Improving Care New initiative provides career advancement opportunities for direct-care workers in Vermont Burlington, VT &#8212; Few issues are more important to people today than health care. Both from a personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Expert: Peggy Powell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tapping the Power of Peer Mentoring This is the second in a series of PHI Expert Interviews, which bring you insights from four senior PHI staff. They&#8217;re an impressive group &#8211; among the nation&#8217;s leading experts on long-term care&#8217;s direct-care workforce &#8211; and collectively they&#8217;ve spent decades studying the challenges facing the workforce and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Issues Detailed Blueprint for Establishing DCW Credentialing System</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommendations for Establishing a Credentialing System for Iowa&#8217;s Direct Care Workforce, (pdf) a recent publication from the Iowa Direct Care Worker Task Force, is a useful tool for advocates in any state who want to create &#8220;an accessible, comprehensible, flexible, quality system of education and training for all direct care workers.&#8221; The report documents work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationwide Initiative to Reduce DCW Turnover Documented</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/gerontologist-documents-results-of-major-nationwide-initiative-to-reduce-dcw-turnover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The July issue of The Gerontologist is devoted to findings from the Better Jobs Better Care research and demonstration project. BJBC, which began in 2002 and ended in 2006, was the largest initiative in the nation ever created to address the high vacancy and turnover rates of direct-care workers by improving the quality of direct-care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Direct-Care Workers Leave</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/why-direct-care-workers-leave/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/why-direct-care-workers-leave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to reduce nursing assistant turnover at your facility, you need to improve working conditions &#8212; maybe hire more direct-care staff, give your supervisors management training, or include direct-care workers more in decision making and care planning. But motivating nursing assistants to stay in the profession long-term requires a whole different set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Hewitt: Direct Support Work is a Highly Skilled Job</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/amy-hewitt-direct-support-work-is-a-highly-skilled-job/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/amy-hewitt-direct-support-work-is-a-highly-skilled-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I had only one sentence, this would be it: Direct support work is a highly skilled job,&#8221; says Amy Hewitt. &#8220;It&#8217;s not viewed that way by society &#8211; or, frankly, by many employers &#8211; but not everybody can do this job. You have to be smart; you have to be able to problem solve; [...]]]></description>
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