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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>Home Health Franchises Among Nation&#8217;s Most Profitable, USA Today Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 02:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report shows that home care is one of the five most profitable franchise ventures in the country, yet home care companies continue to fight a proposed federal rule that would extend basic wage protections to home care workers.]]></description>
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		<title>REPORT: Facility Care Costs Grow, Home Care Costs Remain Stable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nursing home and assisted living facility care costs continued to grow while home care costs remained flat in 2011, according to Genworth Financial's 2012 edition of its annual Cost of Care Survey.]]></description>
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		<title>Matching Registries Gaining Steam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan is a step closer to establishing a permanent statewide home care registry, and a law to create a registry in West Virginia was just passed.]]></description>
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		<title>Registration Still Open for National Home Care Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is still time to register for "Quality Work, Quality Care: A State-of-the-Art, National Conference for Home Care Stakeholders," to be hosted by FHI 360 on April 2 in Washington, DC. ]]></description>
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		<title>COMMENTARY: Private-Duty Trade Associations Fund Three Flawed Studies Attacking FLSA Revision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past two months, private-duty trade associations have produced three different and seriously flawed studies designed to bolster their position that narrowing the overtime exemption would have serious negative consequences for home care companies, clients, and workers.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Care Companies Keep Overtime Costs to a Minimum, PHI Study Finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new PHI report examines how three home care companies have successfully managed to control their overtime costs while maintaining their reputation for high-quality care.]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts to Medicaid Programs Avoided Due to ADA Compliance Issues</title>
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		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/cuts-to-medicaid-programs-avoided-due-to-ada-compliance-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Separate court proceedings in California and Louisiana last week upheld the right of elders and people with disabilities to receive care in their homes under the Americans with Disabilities Act.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Appeals Court Decision Could Prevent California IHSS Cuts</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/u-s-appeals-court-decision-could-prevent-california-ihss-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/u-s-appeals-court-decision-could-prevent-california-ihss-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A December ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could prevent massive cuts to California’s In-Home Supportive Services program.]]></description>
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		<title>PHI President Steven Dawson Addresses Business Owners&#8217; Concerns About the DOL&#8217;s Proposed Rule on the Companionship Exemption</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-president-steven-dawson-addresses-business-owners-concerns-about-the-dols-decision-on-the-companionship-exemption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI President Steven Dawson responds to concerns voiced by owners of home care agencies following the DOL's proposal to give federal minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Care Consumer Bill of Rights Proposed by Senator Franken</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/home-care-consumer-bill-of-rights-proposed-by-senator-franken/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/home-care-consumer-bill-of-rights-proposed-by-senator-franken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the support of three of his colleagues from the Senate HELP Committee, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) introduced the Home Care Consumer Bill of Rights Act on October 20.]]></description>
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