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Better Jobs/Better Care - A program launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies to improve the recruitment and retention of quality direct care workers - nursing assistants, home health aides, and personal care attendants - who provide necessary care and support to elderly people with chronic diseases or disabilities. Five state-based coalitions have been selected to carry out the demonstration projects.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a Federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Programs for which CMS is responsible include Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), HIPAA, and CLIA.
Cooperative Home Care Associates - Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) is a 17-year-old home care agency, based in the heart of the South Bronx, New York. Now employing 620 mostly Latina and African American home health aides, CHCA is the largest worker-owned health care company in the U.S.
Direct Care Alliance - A coalition of long-term care consumers, providers, and workers, who seek to improve the quality of long-term care through a focus on improving the quality of jobs for frontline caregivers.
Health Care for Health Care Workers - Health Care for Heath Care Workers aims to bring public attention to the crisis facing tens of thousands of direct-care workers who assist millions of Americans with age-related and other disabilities but lack coverage themselves.
Home Care Associates of Philadelphia - Home Care Associates (HCA) is a home care agency that provides quality paraprofessional home care services to residents of Philadelphia and the surrounding counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery.
Independence Care System - Independence Care System (ICS) is a non-profit, long-term, managed care organization for people with disabilities and chronically illnesses over the age of 21 in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.
National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce - The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce collects, analyzes, and disseminates information concerning the health care paraprofessional workforce. The Clearinghouse provides both practice and policy-related resources necessary to enhancing the quality of jobs for direct-care workers in long-term care.
Nursing Assistant Resources on the Web - a website for direct-care workers.
Welfare Information Network - A clearinghouse for information, policy analysis and technical assistance on welfare reform.
