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Nurses: The Critical Link in Improving Health Care for the Underserved
Jennifer Wilson, Bermuda’s Nurse of the Year for 2008, spends her days driving the Azmobile from one island school to another. She coordinates an island-wide asthma education programme for Open Airways, an Atlantic-supported organisation that has helped cut hospital admissions for asthma sufferers by nearly…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Health Care Bill Amendment Highlights Direct-Care Workforce
Original Source Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) and the Iowa Caregivers Association are Atlantic grantees. The 2008 Institute of Medicine report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce was funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. by Aaron Toleos An amendment to America’s Affordable Health Choices Act added in the House…
Author: PHI blog
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GSA: Long-Term Care Workers Struggle with Elderly Population Boom
Original Source As America’s aging population increases, so does its need for long-term care, and the workers who provide these services often lack the support they need–particularly in the area of pay and work relationships. These concerns are center stage in “Better Jobs Better Care:…
Author: Gerontological Society of America
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