Vicki Shabo joins to discuss the importance of the recently-proposed Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act to millions of Americans.
Stand For Quality Commends Committees’ Physician Payment Reform Proposal For Promoting High-Value Patient Care
Stand for Quality (SFQ) commends the Senate Finance and the House Ways and Means Committees for furthering efforts to reform Medicare physician payment by proposing a new reimbursement system that rewards quality, high-value patient care. We are pleased the plan bases...
New Act Proposes National Paid Family Leave Policy – New York Times’ “Motherlode”
“This law will make our culture in general more accepting of workers who have work-family demands,” Ms. Shabo said, “in the same way that the Family Medical Leave Act changed culture around caregiving and normalized unpaid time off.”
Stage 3 Meaningful Use Should Incorporate Criteria to Reduce Disparities, Advocates Say – HIT Consultant
The National Partnership for Women & Families states the extra time associated with announced delay in stage 3 Meaningful Use must be used to advance consumer goals.
Stakeholders Continue To Comment on New Meaningful Use Timeline – iHealthBeat
Officials working to improve pay equity for women: They’re paid 33 percent less than males – Missoulian
Those numbers persist despite the fact that there 37,454 households in Montana are headed by women, according to the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Fast Food Protests Bring Out the Twitter Fan Mail – Women’s eNews
The National Partnership for Women and Families and The United Food and Commercial Workers, both based in Washington, D.C., also expressed support.
To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data – New York Times’ “Fixes”
“There is no longer a question of whether or not people have a right to information about quality, and that hospitals should be transparent and accountable,” said Debra L. Ness, the president of the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Real Family Values: Paid Family Leave – Center for American Progress
In fact, a National Partnership for Women & Families exit poll conducted during the 2012 election found that 96 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of Republicans considered it very or somewhat important that the federal government consider new laws to keep families economically secure—including creating a system of insurance that would fund paid family leave.
Health Insurance Exchanges: What Are You Really Buying Into? – LearnVest
Lauren Kennedy, senior health policy counsel for the National Partnership for Women & Families, says a pregnant woman like Stanley is going to be better off picking a policy from an exchange than trying to strike out on her own.
Justices to Consider If Secular Companies Can Deny Women Contraceptive Coverage – Bloomberg BNA
Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women& Families, said there is “a tremendous amount at stake” in these cases. The court’s ultimate decision “will have a profound impact on women’s health and well-being,” she said.
Supreme Court to Consider Birth Control Mandate – MedPage Today
“We urge the court to uphold the contraceptive coverage requirement, and let doctors and their patients decide which health services women need,” Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said in a statement. “No woman should be denied coverage for birth control because of where she works.”
Women’s Leader Says Employers Must Not Be Allowed to Deny Women Coverage for Birth Control, Warns of “Dangerous Intrusion by Employers on Women’s Health”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Consumer Coalition Recommends Policies for Future of Health IT Incentive Program – Bloomberg BNA
The coalition urged health-care providers to communicate more with their patients and their patients’ families to develop personalized care plans and get patients take a more active role in their health goals, officials with the Consumer Partnership for eHealth said.
Advocacy org releases framework on care plans – Clinical Innovation + Technology
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, which represents advocacy organizations, released its framework for CarePlans 2.0, which the organizations describe as “the next generation” of care plans.
Consumer Groups Push a New View of Care Planning – Health Data Management
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of advocacy organizations, has issued a framework for CarePlans 2.0, a next generation of health and care plans that embeds patient-centered principles in an electronic environment to improve communication and foster better outcomes.
Person-Centered Care for People with Dementia: Opportunities and Challenges – American Society on Aging
Various organizations and individuals have defined person-centered care as a goal in itself or instead, as a means for achieving a goal.
Hearing Held in East Goshen on Truitt Family Leave Legislation – Pennsylvania News & Buzz
Those testifying in favor of House Bill 298 included representatives from the Family Values at Work Consortium, PathWaysPA and the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Gillibrand Steps Up for Working Women – The American Prospect
According to Shabo, because the FAMILY Act would act as social insurance rather than a labor standard, it isn’t meant to supplant the FMLA. “Ideally, we see FMLA expansion moving on a parallel track, so that we’re also providing greater access to the FMLA for folks,” Shabo says.
Women’s Health Protection Act, Introduced in Senate and House Today, Would Help Reverse Years of Callous Attacks on Abortion Access
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families