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Your Private Care Association
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Celebrating 30 Years of Representing Caregiver Registries
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ACTION ITEMS:
PCA Members: Please CLICK HERE to login-in
to the Members Only section and address the action items in the Legislative
Update today!
Since
1977, the Private Care Association has
been committed to protecting for-profit caregiver registries through its
active government relations program, designed to present its position to
public policymakers. As the only national
voice for caregiver registries, PCA is continuing to expand its membership
to develop greater capability for nationwide grassroots advocacy to promote
our interests and the consumer-directed model of care. The
principal advantages of consumer-directed care are that it costs less,
provides consumers greater participation in
decisions concerning their care, allows consumers to individually select
caregivers, provides greater continuity in caregiver relationships, more
generously compensates the caregiver, and supports caregiver
entrepreneurship.
For 30 years the PCA has advocated the Consumer
directed model of care.
We
believe that the consumer who elects to privately pay for their own or
family members care has the right to assess their own care needs, make decisions about how private care services
would meet those needs, choose how they want that care delivered, select
the personnel who will deliver that care and choose how, when and where
that care will be delivered.
The PCA
supports Licensure in every State.
PCA supports legislation
and regulation that protects the rights of the elderly, infirm and disabled
care recipients through consumer choice. We
believe that all registries and agencies that provide caregivers for
in-home care should be licensed for medical, skilled and personal care
services. We support compliance with requirements
for criminal background checks, credentialing of caregivers and procedures
for complaints and abuse reporting.
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2009 PCA Annual Conference
Industry in Crisis!
Click on this
link for details on the PCA Annual Conference in Washington DC at the
Washington Hilton, September 29-October 1!
You MUST attend this Conference...we're
depending on you to help save our industry!
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The Private Care Association endorses
Accreditation through the Caregiver Registry Standards Board (CRSB)
The CRSB
is an independent accrediting body that creates and maintains
standards for the private sector caregiver registry industry through an
accreditation process designed to ensure an independent, objective review
of the services provided by the caregiver registry. To learn more about CRSB accreditation, click here.
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