http://hchcw.org/archives/new-fact-sheet-highlights-health-insurance-status-of-vermont-workers Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:51:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://hchcw.org/archives/new-fact-sheet-highlights-health-insurance-status-of-vermont-workers#comment-546 Dolly Fleming Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:32:35 +0000 http://hchcw.org/?p=321#comment-546 Everytime I look at this newsletter and the briefs, I am impressed by the breadth and depth of relevant information. Our formal work in Vermont with Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) has come to a conclution. And our formal work with PHI on the Vermont LEADS project has mostly concluded. Nonetheless, the Community of Vermont Elders's (COVE) interests in the healthcare workforce cannot stop. A healthy, qualified, well compensated healthcare workforce is essential to our mission - promoting and protecting the dignity, security and well being of older Vermonters. This resource information is so timely with current Vermont activities: Governor's Proclamation of Healthcare Awareness;statewide campaign to encourage people to enter the healthcare workforce; efforts to strengthen home & community based services; advances in person centered care;discussions with the Legislature on the Direct Care Workforce Study and its recommendation; presentations to the Healthcare Access Oversight Committee & Joint Fiscal Committee; efforts to make sure that direct care workers have real access to health insurance programs and more importantly- healthcare. In sum, thank you PHI colleagues for putting time and resources into research, policy and communications. The field needs these kind of resources to build a case, aspire to something more just and hold ourselves accountable for that higher vision. Thank you. Dolly Fleming Community of Vermont Elders Everytime I look at this newsletter and the briefs, I am impressed by the breadth and depth of relevant information. Our formal work in Vermont with Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) has come to a conclution. And our formal work with PHI on the Vermont LEADS project has mostly concluded. Nonetheless, the Community of Vermont Elders’s (COVE) interests in the healthcare workforce cannot stop. A healthy, qualified, well compensated healthcare workforce is essential to our mission - promoting and protecting the dignity, security and well being of older Vermonters. This resource information is so timely with current Vermont activities: Governor’s Proclamation of Healthcare Awareness;statewide campaign to encourage people to enter the healthcare workforce; efforts to strengthen home & community based services; advances in person centered care;discussions with the Legislature on the Direct Care Workforce Study and its recommendation; presentations to the Healthcare Access Oversight Committee & Joint Fiscal Committee; efforts to make sure that direct care workers have real access to health insurance programs and more importantly- healthcare. In sum, thank you PHI colleagues for putting time and resources into research, policy and communications. The field needs these kind of resources to build a case, aspire to something more just and hold ourselves accountable for that higher vision. Thank you.
Dolly Fleming
Community of Vermont Elders

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