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	<title>PHInational.org &#187; North Carolina</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>Assisted Living Facility Deaths Ignite Training Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deaths of six residents over six months at an assisted living facility in North Carolina have intensified the state's debate on the adequacy of training and supervision of unlicensed medication aides.]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina Journal Devotes Issue to Long-Term Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Carolina Medical Journal&#8216;s March/April issue contains a suite of articles on long-term care, including two about the state&#8217;s direct-care workforce. In an introduction (pdf), Editor-in-Chief Thomas C. Ricketts and Managing Editor Christine Nielsen write that the issue aims to &#8220;present a broad range of views and opinions, with the ultimate goal of drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IN MEMORIAM: Melanie Jones (1965-2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI mourns the loss of Melanie Jones, a certified nursing assistant (CNA) who was a tireless advocate for direct-care workers in North Carolina and beyond. Melanie was active since 2005 in the Direct Care Workers Association of North Carolina (DCWA-NC), a statewide, education-based organization for direct-care workers and others who share its mission and values. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REPORT: Workplace Interventions Improve Turnover, Quality of Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think the movement to improve the nursing home as a workplace and the movement to improve it as a place to live are coming together in a very positive way, so that a nursing home can be both a better place to live and to work,&#8221; says Thomas Konrad. &#8220;I think those tendencies reinforce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tragedy in North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/a-tragedy-in-north-carolina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHI’s thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by last Sunday’s mass shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehab, a nursing home located in Carthage, NC (“Suspect&#8217;s wife sorry for NC nursing home shooting,” AP, April 1). According to the AP story, seven residents and one nurse were killed. Robert Stewart, 45, has been charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationwide Initiative to Reduce DCW Turnover Documented</title>
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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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