PHI Affiliates
In collaboration with the following agenices, PHI has designed and implemented an innovative set of recruitment, training and employment practices that have fostered workforce stability and quality care giving. In addition, PHI has supported the worker ownership structure of these agencies through worker education and empowerment programs that are designed to help workers become effective participants in organizational decision making and articulate advocates in the public policy arena.
Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is the largest worker-owned health care company in the United States. Based in the heart of the South Bronx, CHCA employs 750 mostly Latina and African American home health aides.
Home Care Associates of Philadelphia employs over 100 home health aides and provides paraprofessional job training and placement services to other Philadelphia long-term care providers.
Quality Care Partners is located in Manchester, NH and is cosponsored by the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, New Hampshire Catholic Charities, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. QCP employs over 30 licensed nursing assistants (LNAs) who provide staffing at local nursing and assisted living facilities as well as home care services.
Independence Care System is a managed long-term care demonstration program in New York City designed exclusively for adults living with disabilities.
The Direct Care Alliance (DCA) is a nonprofit national coalition of long-term care consumers, direct-care workers, and concerned health care providers working for broad-based reforms within both public policy and industry practice.
The SKILL Center is a nonprofit provider of education and training services for New York City home health aides. This initiative is co-sponsored by the Quality Care through Quality Jobs network, which includes both PHI and its partners Independence Care System and Cooperative Home Care Associates. The SKILL Center provides entry level training and in-service education for home care agencies that are preferred providers of personal care services to Independence Care System.
