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Bill Requiring Training for Home Care Workers Advances

SEIU backs a consensus bill from the Senate Workforce Committee to set up federally funded training for its 35,000 home care workers registered with the Home Care Commission who help seniors on Medicaid stay in their homes.

The Oregon Senate unanimously voted Monday to strengthen standards for home care workers, passing a bill designed to protect many of the state’s most vulnerable seniors and developmentally disabled people who receive the

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Chris Gray

Kitzhaber Signs Homecare Worker Law, Opening Registry to Private Payment

SB 1542 was pushed by SEIU and senior advocates, giving middle-class seniors a new option, in addition to private home care agencies, to help them stay in their homes while meeting the needs of daily living. The state homecare workers, previously available only for Medicaid clients, will soon be open for all.

Gov. John Kitzhaber officially signed Senate Bill 1542 into law Thursday, creating a new option for middle-class seniors striving to stay in their homes -- hiring a homecare worker off the state’s registry.

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Christopher David Gray

Oregon Pioneered Home Care Workers, Who’ve Waited Six Years for Raise

Home care workers provide long-term care to Medicaid clients and help low-income senior citizens stay in their homes and communities, but the workers are also the second-largest Oregon workforce eligible for food stamps.

May 1, 2013 — At 56, Rebecca Sandoval has grown kids but decided several years ago she would adopt someone new — a grandmother.

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Christopher David Gray