There are many organizations working on a national level to bring the needs of the direct care workforce to the forefront. Sometimes, as a local chapter of the Direct Care Worker Association, we may feel disengaged with these movements.
Recently, however, the national blogs began to discuss an April 23rd op-ed that appeared in Allentown’s The Morning Call, right here in the Lehigh Valley!
The op-ed was written by Robert S. Zimmerman. He formerly served as the state’s secretary of health and also its Medicaid director. More recently he was director of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Region 3 Office for the Mid-Atlantic States.
In the article, Zimmerman asks state leaders to take advantage of the infusion of $4 billion in additional Medicaid funding from the federal stimulus by “mak[ing] a significant investment in an important but under-recognized industry – publicly-funded home and community-based services (HCBS)” Read the full article by clicking here.
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