Health Care for Health Care Workers - This project is an initiative of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute that seeks to expand health coverage for workers who provide support and assistance to elders and people living with chronic illnesses and/or disabilities. Consumers need a skilled, reliable, and stable direct-care workforce to provide quality long-term care services. We believe that one way to ensure a quality direct-care workforce is to provide quality direct care jobs—jobs that offer health coverage and pay a living wage. www.hchcw.org
The Effect of Premiums On the Decision To Participate In Health Insurance and Oher Fringe Benefits Offered By the Employer: Evidence From A Real-World Experiment. Journal of Health Economics article. Click here.
Health Insurance Coverage for Direct-Care Workers: Riding Out the Storm, BJBC Issue Brief, No. 3. This issue brief presents the case for improving health coverage to direct care workers and offers realistic strategies for making health coverage more available and more affordable to them and their families. Click here
Impact of Health Benefits On Retention of Homecare Workers: Preliminary Analysis of The IHSS Health Benefits Program In Los Angeles County. The study found that workers were more likely to remain in or return to the direct-care workforce if they were enrolled in the IHSS benefits program. Click here.
A Crisis for Caregivers: Health Insurance Out of Reach For Nursing Home Workers. Researching the health insurance needs of nursing home workers, SEUI found that nationally more than 20% of long-term care workers are uninsured, as compared to 14% of the general population. Click here
An Independent Evaluation of the Quality of Services and System Performance of Minnesota's Medicaid Home and Community Based Services for Persons with Mental Retardation and Related Conditions. This report summarizes the findings of a comprehensive evaluation of Minnesota’s Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) “waiver” program. The Executive Summary presents key findings, positive accomplishments, remaining challenges and recommendations from the full report. The technical report includes many findings related to the impact of workforce issues on individuals with disabilities, direct support professionals and organizations. http://www.rtc.umn.edu/pdf/waiver_report.pdf
Staff Supervision and Management Store: Quality Mall. Products on the skills needed by supervisors, consumers, and families for supervising direct support providers. http://www.qualitymall.org/directory/dept1.asp?deptid=11
CMS Direct Service Workforce Demonstration Grants: Overview and Discussion of Health Coverage Interventions (April 2006). This report provides an overview of the efforts six of the CMS DSW grantees to make health care coverage more affordable and/or accessible to direct service workers. It also discusses the key advantages and disadvantages of the three general approaches the grantees are taking and highlights some of their lessons learned so far about expanding health coverage to this workforce. An attached spreadsheet provides a description of each intervention, identifying key components, including: number of participants, total premiums, costs to employers and employees, and potential sustainability of coverage. Click here
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