$110,000
Awarded June 16, 2010
Duration: 12 months
Service Area: National
Program Staff: Kali Peterson
Strategy 2.2.2 - Improve the quantity, quality, and interdisciplinary approach to care delivery in the long-term care workforce, including both formal and informal caregivers
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provides unprecedented policy opportunities for improving the long-term services and supports received by older adults, specifically by strengthening the direct-care workforce. The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) will seize on these opportunities by producing a suite of inter-related products focused on workforce elements of the law. This grant provides support to complete the following products: 1) a fact sheet on California’s Certified Nursing Assistant Workforce; 2) two national fact sheets that focus on the health insurance coverage for this workforce and the scope and role of the direct-care workforce in the health-care system; 3) a 50-state, web-based resource with key information on each state’s direct-care workforce; and 4) a policy brief on labor market intermediaries.