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	<title>PHInational.org &#187; Missouri</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>STATE NEWS UPDATES: Missouri, Minnesota, Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri home care workers were legally cleared to unionize, PCAs in Minnesota have been temporarily spared wage cuts, and Alabama's governor is pushing for more Medicaid funding.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Care Workers Vote to Unionize in Two States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent home care workers who provide services to Medicaid-eligible consumers voted to unionize in Missouri and Wisconsin on May 5 and 6, respectively, totaling 17,000 workers who will be represented there. In Missouri, 12,000 self-employed home care workers will be represented by the Missouri Home Care Union (MHSU), which is affiliated with the Service Employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri Medicaid Tries to Restrict Home Health Eligibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri&#8217;s Department of Social Services has learned that it will be sanctioned by the Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services (CMS) for requiring that consumers be &#8220;confined to the home&#8221; to qualify for Medicaid-covered home health services. Requiring someone to be homebound in order to receive home health services covered by Medicaid violates federal Medicaid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Blocks Home Care Unionization Vote in Missouri</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building on Missouri voters&#8217; approval last November of a ballot initiative to create the Missouri Quality Homecare Council, which has authority to negotiate with workers over wages and benefits, Missouri&#8217;s in-home care workers have voted by a landslide margin in favor of organizing themselves into the Missouri Home Care Union. But even before the ballots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri Legislature Refuses to Fund Statewide Home Care Council</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/missouri-legislature-refuses-to-fund-statewide-home-care-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI reported last fall (“Missouri Passes Quality Home Care Act,” November 6, 2008) that Missouri voters had overwhelmingly passed a measure to create a Quality Home Care Council, which would run a statewide registry of home care workers, coordinate backup services, offer training, and negotiate with workers over wages and benefits if they chose to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri Passes Quality Home Care Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seniors, people with disabilities, workers, and home care advocates, celebrated the passage of Proposition B, the  Quality Home Care Act, on Nov. 4. The measure (see our Oct. 23 story) passed with 75 percent of the vote and was led by Missourians for Quality Home Care. SEIU Healthcare worked in coalition with consumers, disability and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: LTC on Missouri Ballot</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/missouri-getting-ltc-on-november-ballot/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/missouri-getting-ltc-on-november-ballot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[wpyt-post]o2K3vYc3HCY[/wpyt-post] Following our story last week on Washington State&#8217;s ballot initiative, we were contacted about a ballot initiative in Missouri that also deals with long-term care workers. The ballot question called Proposition B would create a Quality Home Care Council that would run a statewide registry, coordinate backup services, offer trainings, and negotiate with workers [...]]]></description>
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