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--JOURNAL ARTICLES--

Comparing Staffing Levels in the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) System With the Medicaid Cost Report Data: Are Differences Systematic?
Bita A. Kash, Catherine Hawes, and Charles D. Phillips
Gerontologist. 2007 Aug; 47:480-489.
http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/4/480

The underreporting gap in aggressive incidents from geriatric patients against certified nursing assistants.
Snyder LA, Chen PY, Vacha-Haase T.
Violence Vict. 2007;22(3):367-79.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17619640&itool=iconabstr&itool=pubmed_DocSum

A Salute to an Unsung Hero: The Hospice Nursing Assistant
Marianne Garrity; Maryanne Fello; Sherry Anderson
Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2007; 19(5): 385-388.
http://hhc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/5/385

Knowing the Resident with Dementia: Perspectives of Assisted Living Facility Caregivers
Joyce Rasin; Donald D. Kautz
Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 2007 Sept; 33(9).
http://www.jognonline.com/view.asp?rID=23581

Managing the laboratory technical workforce.
Hamilton LT.
Clin Lab Med. 2007 Dec;27(4):807-21.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17950899&itool=iconabstr&itool=pubmed_DocSum


--REPORTS-

Immigration and the Elderly: Foreign-Born Workers in Long-Term Care
Walter N. Leutz
Immigration Policy in Focus, vol. 5, issue 12 (August 2007, .pdf format, 12p.)
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/infocus/infocus_0708.pdf

Caring for America's aging population: a profile of the direct-care workforce
Kristin Smith and Reagan Baughman
Monthly Labor Review (September 2007, .pdf format, 7p.)
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/09/art3full.pdf

State legislation regarding wages and benefits of home care workers: Thirteen promising practices
Wong, Alice, H. Stephen Kaye, and Robert Newcomer
Center for Personal Assistance Services (July 2007, .pdf format)
http://www.pascenter.org/pas_workforce/promising_practices.php?print=yes


--NEWS-

Enhancing Opportunities for Front-line Health Care Workers- BWH ...
More than 550 Boston health care workers will have an opportunity to get the training and education they need to advance up the career ladder, ...
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/publicaffairs/publications/DisplayBulletin.aspx?articleid=140&issueDate=5/31/2002%2012:00:00%20AM