Monthly Archive for June, 2010

PHI’s Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign has released a fact sheet highlighting key health reform provisions related to investments in direct-care worker training and workforce development:

• Health Reform Facts 1: Workforce Development and Training Opportunities for Direct-Care Workers (pdf)

These investments include the creation of national advisory panels as well as grant opportunities for states and individual employers.

The following chart from the fact sheet summarizes the key opportunities available between now and when the law is fully implemented in 2014. Download the full fact sheet (pdf) for more information.

More information related to health reform and its impact on eldercare and disability services is available at the PHI Health Reform Resource Center.

As part of the health reform package (Pub.L. 111-148 and Pub.L. 111-152) signed by President Obama in March 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is creating a national Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel.

Nominations for panel members are being accepted through Friday, June 18 (see below for nomination process). Continue reading ‘Health Care Reform: Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel’