Health Care Reform to Improve Long-Term Care for Both Consumers and Direct Care Workers

Becka Livesay from the
Direct Care Alliance

Although health care reform continues to spark debate and controversy across the nation, when President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it marked the beginning of the most significant improvements to long-term care in a generation. Several components of the legislation, including Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement and the Elder Justice Act, will not only improve the care America's long-term care consumers receive but will also improve and better the working conditions and training for direct care workers.

NCCNHR, The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, works to improve the quality of care and life for long-term care consumers and their families as well as working conditions and training for direct care workers. When health care reform passed Congress, nearly a dozen policy resolutions adopted by the NCCNHR were addressed, read more....

posted by Becka Livesay on the Direct Care Alliance blog, April 5th, 2010