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		<title>Kansas Medicaid Cuts Could Increase Possibility of Olmstead Violation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates say that Kansas's ability to care for people with disabilities in home- and community-based settings will be further hampered by proposed cuts to state Medicaid costs.]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas Caregivers to Receive Wage Increase from State</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting September 1, caregivers in Kansas's Medicaid self-directed in-home care program will begin to receive higher wages, while the program's administrative costs will be cut.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Picks Sebelius, DeParle to Lead Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 2, President Obama announced his picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National White House Office for Health Reform.  Kathleen Sebelius, the governor of Kansas and an early Obama supporter, will lead HHS if confirmed by the Senate, while Nancy-Ann DeParle will head White House health reform efforts. Both candidates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INTERVIEW &#8211; Steve Shields: “It’s Time To Plan for Transformation”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Shields’ journey from heading up a long-shore drilling operation in the Middle East to becoming a key player in the eldercare culture change movement began with the loss of his mother. In the mid-80s, his mother had advanced Alzheimer’s and his father had Parkinson’s, two “headline diseases,” as he calls them. So, Shields went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disabled Kansans Fight for Caregiver Pay Amid Budget Crunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is considered for the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration, an AP story that appeared in The Kansas City Star on Feb. 11 (“Invisible Kansans”) highlights the predicament of the nearly 4,000 Kansas residents who suffer from developmental disabilities and fear the state’s current [...]]]></description>
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