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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>Innovative Practices Profiled in Two New PHI Case Studies</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/innovative-practices-profiled-in-two-new-phi-case-studies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New England-based company that manages dozens of senior living communities and an Alabama long-term care facility are profiled in the latest case studies in PHI's The Business of Caregiving series.]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign Launched to Improve Direct-Care Worker Image, Boost Job Applicants</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/campaign-launched-to-improve-direct-care-worker-image-boost-job-applicants/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/campaign-launched-to-improve-direct-care-worker-image-boost-job-applicants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kenosha County (Wis.) Long-Term Care Workforce Alliance has a new look and interactive website to complement its recently launched social marketing campaign "When Caring Is a Career."]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina Journal Devotes Issue to Long-Term Care</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/north-carolina-journal-devotes-issue-to-long-term-care/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/north-carolina-journal-devotes-issue-to-long-term-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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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>Report Identifies Effective Retention Programs and Resources</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/report-identifies-effective-retention-programs-and-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/report-identifies-effective-retention-programs-and-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AAHSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wages & benefits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than two dozen proven examples of direct-care worker retention strategies are outlined in a January report from the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA). The report (pdf) explains that the poor quality of many direct-care jobs leads directly to high turnover &#8212; which can in turn degrade the quality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gerontologist Explores Nursing Assistant Job Satisfaction</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/gerontologist-explores-nursing-assistant-job-satisfaction/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/gerontologist-explores-nursing-assistant-job-satisfaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nursing assistants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The October 2009 issue of The Gerontologist features two studies that use data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS). The first-ever national survey of certified nursing assistants in the United States, the NNAS is considered a pathbreaking evidence base for policy, practice, and research initiatives to improve nursing assistant recruitment and retention efforts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Investigates Direct-Care Worker Turnover in Maine</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/gerontologist-focuses-on-direct-care-workers-in-maine-and-throughout-the-u-s/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/gerontologist-focuses-on-direct-care-workers-in-maine-and-throughout-the-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Higher wages, more hours, and travel-cost reimbursement are the strongest predictors of turnover among Maine home care workers, according to a study published in the October 2009 issue of The Gerontologist. The study &#8212; conducted by Lisa Morris of the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine &#8212; is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100+ Nursing Home Staff-Satisfaction Strategies Identified</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/100-nursing-home-staff-satisfaction-strategies-identified/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/100-nursing-home-staff-satisfaction-strategies-identified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new American Health Care Association (AHCA) paper presents more than 100 strategies that are designed to improve staff satisfaction among long-term care workers, including direct-care staff, in nursing homes. The strategies &#8212; which combine &#8220;actions, practices, and programs,&#8221; according to the paper&#8217;s authors &#8212; are wide-ranging in scope. They encompass everything from maintaining a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advancing Excellence Announces New Goals</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/advancing-excellence-announces-new-goals/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/advancing-excellence-announces-new-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign enters its second year, an overhaul of its original eight goals has been announced. Three of these goals relate directly to the workforce. AE announced that a revision of their eight official goals is &#8220;necessary to keep up with the continual drive to improve nursing home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New from the PHI Clearinghouse</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-clearinghouse-offers-helpful-ltc-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-clearinghouse-offers-helpful-ltc-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the newest additions to PHI&#8217;s National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce: Increasing staff retention &#8211; A fact sheet from the Advancing Excellence in America&#8217;s Nursing Homes campaign. The interplay of CNAs’ views of residents and nursing home environments &#8211; Identifies CNAs&#8217; perspectives of nursing home residents and how these perspectives translate into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools for Quality Workforce Released by BJBC</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/practical-tools-for-quality-workforce-released-by-bjbc/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/practical-tools-for-quality-workforce-released-by-bjbc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The July issue of The Gerontologist featured the results of the Better Jobs Better Care initiative, the four-year $15.5 million research and demonstration project that 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 jobs. The Institute for [...]]]></description>
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