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(1/15) PHI Releases In-Depth Report on the Direct Care Workforce

By Joanne Kaldy / January 15, 2021

A new report offers eight recommendation to improve direct care workforce jobs and nurture/retain home care workers, certified nursing assistants, and others:

  • Reform long-term care financing to strengthen direct care jobs, including strengthening public financing for long-term care, increasing reimbursement rates under Medicaid and other public payers, and protecting and strengthening Medicaid to cover more individuals and improve direct care jobs.
  • Increase compensation for direct care workers, including offering a living wage and improving access to full-time schedules.
  • Strengthen training standards and delivery systems for direct care workers, including establishing a national standard for competencies.
  • Fund, implement, and evaluate direct care workforce interventions, including strengthening the workforce pipeline in direct care and providing additional skill-building at the entry level.
  • Improve direct care workforce data collection and monitoring.
  • Center direct care workers in leadership roles and public policy.
  • Rectify systemic gender and racial inequities for direct care workers.
  • Shift the public narrative on direct care workers.

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