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Strengthening and Investing in Home and Community Based Services for Medicaid Beneficiaries: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Section 9817 Spending Plans and Narratives

AUTHOR: Medicaid.gov

SUBJECT: Medicaid, financing, solutions, home care, invest in care, states, policy implementation, care infrastructure, policy development, CMS

States Are Using One-Time Funds to Improve Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services, But Longer-Term Investments Are Needed

AUTHOR: JENNIFER SULLIVAN

SUBJECT: Medicaid, financing, solutions, home care, invest in care, states, policy implementation, care infrastructure

Investing in Home Care Workers Like Me Is the Solution We Need

These workers were left out of the New Deal. They’ve been fighting for better pay ever since. My adopted sister, Leia, depends on me for everything. Leia has spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and it’s my job as a home care worker to make sure her needs are met. Over the course of any given… Continue reading Investing in Home Care Workers Like Me Is the Solution We Need

Voices of Paid and Family Caregivers for Medicaid Enrollees Receiving HCBS

AUTHORS: MaryBeth Musumeci, Meghana Ammula, and Robin Rudowitz

SUBJECT: solutions, unions, wages, benefits, invest in care, job quality, pandemic, Medicaid, home care, workforce

Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better

Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better Legislation with the size and scope of the $4 trillion “Build Back Better” agenda is like a Bat-Signal for lobbyists, urging them to swarm Capitol Hill without delay. Literally thousands of companies, organizations, and trade groups have lobbied on one or more of the bills in this… Continue reading Private Equity’s Potential Payday From Build Back Better

19th News: A first-of-its-kind investment in home care is in the works. But will it be enough?

In Adarra Benjamin’s family, care work has been generational. It has been passed on from woman to woman — her great-grandmother first, then her grandmother and her mother. In 2012, it was Benjamin’s turn.

Predictors of Intent to Leave the Job Among Home Health Workers: Analysis of the National Home Health Aide Survey

AUTHOR:R obyn Stone, DrPH, Jess Wilhelm, MID, Christine E Bishop, PhD, Natasha S Bryant, MA, Linda Hermer, PhD, Marie R Squillace, PhD

SUBJECT: home care, poor job quality, turnover, occupational segregation, structural racism, sexism, wages and benefits, career mobility, BIPOC women, essential workers, care crisis

The Future of the Home Care Workforce: Training and Supporting Aides as Members of Home‐Based Care Teams

AUTHOR: Robyn I. Stone DrPH and Natasha S. Bryant MA

SUBJECT: home care, policy development, policy implementation, quality jobs, training, career mobility, care infrastructure, care crisis, essential workers

McKnight’s Senior Living: Providers insist on higher Medicaid rates to recruit, pay home health workers

The Wisconsin Association for Home Care is demanding an increase in the state’s Medicaid rate for home-based skilled nursing. The two-year, $91 billion budget recently unveiled by Governor Tony Evers provided no additional funding for skilled nursing in the home.

Home Health Care News: ‘Let’s Find Solutions That Work’: Care Advantage, Anthem Pioneer Pay-for-Performance Agreement for LTSS

In the post-acute care world, value-based contracting can be fairly straightforward. Sick patients are discharged from the hospital, home health agencies are brought in to help them recover, and then they’re paid appropriately based on how well those people recover.

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The Center for Advancing Racial Equity and Job Quality in Long-Term Care (The Center for Equity) is a national hub for developing innovative workforce policy and fostering narrative change in long-term care (LTC).  Our work centers the majority Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) women and immigrant caregiving workforce and confronts the links between systemic racial and gender inequities and poor job quality.  We unite diverse stakeholders in service of building the equitable caregiving infrastructure our nation needs.

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