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	<title>PHInational.org &#187; home health aides</title>
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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>New Jersey Home Care Workers Protest Wage Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 19:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home health aides in New Jersey held a rally on April 25 to voice their opposition to wage cuts proposed by their employer.]]></description>
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		<title>New Re-Hospitalization Prevention Project to Employ Home Health Aides</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certified home health aides will play an integral role in efforts to prevent re-hospitalizations when a new project at the University of Medicine &#038; Dentistry of New Jersey is launched.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Care Workers Should Give Out Medication, Connecticut Governor Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has proposed that home health aides and agency-based personal care attendants in the state should be trained to administer medication to consumers.]]></description>
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		<title>Low-Quality Home Care Jobs Leave Nation Unprepared to Care, PHI Report Finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country's 2.5 million home health and personal care aides provide crucial long-term care, yet their jobs are inadequately supported and compensated, according to a comprehensive new PHI analysis of the workforce.]]></description>
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		<title>States&#8217; Requirements for Home Health Aide Training Lag Far Behind Nurse Aides&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/states-requirements-for-home-health-aide-training-lag-far-behind-nurse-aides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only 15 states require home health aides to have more training hours than are federally mandated, yet 30 states require CNAs to have more training hours than the federal requirements, according to a PHI analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>Average Home Health Aide Pay Rates Remain Unchanged</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average private-pay rates for home health aides remained $21 for the third straight year, even as the overall cost of long-term care continues to rise in the U.S.]]></description>
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		<title>PHI President Recommends Expanded Scope of Practice for Home Health Aides</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-president-recommends-expanded-scope-of-practice-for-home-health-aides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI President Steven Dawson argues that both a flagging economy and efforts to move toward new models of care provide the opportunity for the health care industry to redefine the role of the home health aide.]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Bills Would Improve Training Standards and Expand Scope of Practice</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/massachusetts-bills-would-improve-training-standards-and-expand-scope-of-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI Massachusetts lent its support to two bills at a July 19 hearing on home and community health care provider policies, held by the Joint Committee on Public Health.]]></description>
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		<title>New York State Budget Increases Home Health Aides&#8217; Hourly Wages by $2</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/new-york-state-budget-improves-home-health-aides-hourly-wages-by-2/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/new-york-state-budget-improves-home-health-aides-hourly-wages-by-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York State Budget for 2011-2012, passed on March 31, includes sweeping legislation that will dramatically alter the way New York pays for and delivers Medicaid services, particularly in home- and community-based settings.]]></description>
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		<title>Column on Home Health Aides Published in Huffington Post</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/column-on-home-health-aides-published-in-huffington-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post has published a column about home health aides written by Marki Flannery, president of the New York-based home care agency Partners in Care.]]></description>
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