HomeCareCrisis.org Hall of Shame Welcomes New Inductee
Our latest inductee came into the spotlight for its involvement in a $90 million suit for Medicaid fraud damages. The company, along with a major contractor, was forced to repay $23,963,100 to settle the charges. In 2007, this hall of shamer was the fifth largest subcontractor in the home care industry, employing more than 1,400 aides. Read more
Budget Proposal Could Worsen Home Care Crisis
A provision in the proposal would remove approximately 5,000 patients from New York State's Personal Care program. This proposal would result in $2 per hour wage cuts and the loss of family health insurance for more than 10,000 workers, which could significantly worsen the home care crisis. Read more
Video: Mrs. Jones Investigates Home Care's Poverty Paycheck
Many home care agency owners make millions of dollars in profits and inflated administrative fees while home care workers make as little as $7.25. These caregivers allow our loved ones to live with dignity in their own homes. Don't let poverty wages damage the home care services that our families depend on.Watch video
Home Care Hall of Shame Welcomes First Inductee
Our first inductee beat many worthy nominees for his spot in the Hall of Shame. This Hall of Shamer admitted to Medicaid fraud, pleading guilty to felony grand larceny charges. His companies were forced to repay $19.7 million, among the largest Medicaid recoveries in 2007. Read more
Hit Film “Precious” Touches on Poverty Wages in Home Care
The hit film “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” contains scene in which the main character and her classmates discuss why they don’t want to work as home care workers.Read more
HomeCareCrisis.org Launched a bus shelter ad campaign throughout the New York boroughs. Look out for our ads in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Read more
1199 Launches HomeCareCrisis.org as first Step in Statewide Campaign
1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East launched the ‘HomeCareCrisis.org’ website today as the first step in a public relations and advocacy campaign to reform the homecare industry. The launch coincides with the annual Albany conference of the New York Association of Health Care Providers, a homecare industry group.
August 9, 2009:Evelyn Coke, Home Care Aide Who Fought Pay Rule, Is Dead at 74
“Evelyn Coke, who took a case all the way to the Supreme Court, spent two decades working more than 40 hours a week caring for others,” the senators wrote. “Yet, when she suffered from kidney failure, she could not afford a health care worker to take care of her.”
June 1, 2009:New Charges for Defendant in Fraud Case
A Bronx man already facing grand larceny charges for running a training school for home health care aides that officials said cheated the state’s Medicaid system was rearrested Monday, accused of forging documents to open a new school in the same location.
April 3, 2009:Staten Island home-health aides picket company offices
Members of Local 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East staged a demonstration in New Dorp yesterday, shouting, chanting and demanding pay raises, medical benefits and better treatment from Aides At Home Inc. Aides at Home, headed by owner Roslyn Wilkins, countered with a 15-cent-an-hour raise.
June 3, 2008:Department of Health Address to the Home Care Association of New York State 2008 Annual Conference
Department of Health presents its analysis of New York's highest-cost-in-the-nation certified home health system; highlights inexplicable cost growth in recent years.
May 13, 2008: Home Alone—With Medicaid Fraudsters
New Yorkers have always excelled at finding new ways to make a buck—honestly and otherwise—and the profitable schemes that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is rooting out in the home health-care business are part of that ambitious tradition.
April 11, 2008:
Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce
The Institute of Medicine reports that "as the population of seniors grows to comprise approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and critically unprepared to meet their health needs." The study recommends a range of initiatives to imrpove the size and capability of the direct care workforce.
March/April 2007:
Better jobs, Better Care: Building a Valued, Committed Workforce
Report on the findings from a first-of-its-kind, national study of the link between the quality of direct care jobs and patient outcomes. The study finds that "unless employers can guarantee direct care workers improved working conditions, better training and quality jobs, the epidemic of high turnover and vacancy rates that has plagued the long-term care field will continue."
July 18, 2005: New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions
New York's Medicaid program. . . has become so huge, so complex and so lightly policed that it is easily exploited. . . A yearlong investigation by The Times found that the program has been misspending billions of dollars annually because of fraud, waste and profiteering.
