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Health Affairs: To Achieve Equitable Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes, Address Key Workforce Challenges

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To Achieve Equitable Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes, Address Key Workforce Challenges

In the United States, since the start of the pandemic, 5 percent of COVID-19 cases and 36 percent of deaths occurred within long-term care (LTC) facilities, with 12 states experiencing at least half of their deaths linked to long-term care facilities. The tragedy experienced within the LTC system has been attributed to workforce challenges and wide variation in quality of care. The impact of COVOD-19 across LTC facilities has not been uniform. These nursing homes serving populations significantly composed of African Americans and Latino patients have been twice as likely to face a COVID-19 outbreak compared to facilities with a majority…

 

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The CenterFor LTCequity

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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The Center for Equity is an initiative of the Healthcare Career Advancement Program (H-CAP), a national labor/management organization which works with employers, unions and workers to raise standards across the healthcare industry. The initiative is generously funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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