Patient and family engagement is gaining acceptance as a strategy to integrate the wisdom and experiences of patients, caregivers, and the advocacy groups that represent them into efforts to improve healthcare outcomes and quality.
On the 35th Anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Families are Struggling Because the Law’s Promise is Still Not Fully Realized
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Two GNC managers fight ban on overtime – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“There are a number of reports that have come out about wage theft, which is depriving workers of overtime pay,” said Vicki Shabo, director of work and family programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Looking at Seattle’s gender pay gap – The Capitol Hill Times
The National Partnership for Women and Families, a non-partisan non-profit organization advocating for women’s rights since 1971, is the source of the gender pay gap report.
Female Pols Led Shutdown’s End; Sex Traffic Reported – Women’s eNews
The National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, D.C., said many of the families hurt by the shutdown will feel its effects for some time.
Women’s Leader Says Families Hurt by Shutdown – and the Nation – Deserved Better
Statement of Judith L. Lichtman, Senior Advisor, National Partnership for Women & Families
High Net Worth Women More Concerned than Men about National Economic Issues – Spectrem’s Millionaire Corner
Another study conducted by the National Partnership for Women and Families found that the median yearly pay for women employed full time is $11.084 less than men’s.
ONC Sets Goals For MU Stage 3 – Healthcare Technology Online
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth offered it opinion of what is needed for Stage 3, writing, “We believe the ‘Meaningful Use’ EHR Incentive Program offers a significant, unprecedented opportunity to reduce health disparities by addressing not only the multi-faceted needs of individuals and groups, but also the overlapping needs of all populations.
Workers Deserve Paid Sick Leave – International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The National Partnership for Women & Families says that more than 40 million private sector workers, about 40 percent of the workforce, don’t earn paid sick days.
What Obamacare Means for Women – DailyWorth
“Prior to the ACA, individual plans or small group plans would do gender rating, where they would charge a higher rate for women than men for the same insurance plan,” says Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, senior health policy counsel at the National Partnership for Women and Families. “If you were a small business that employed a majority of women, you paid a higher rate. But now you can no longer rate a plan based on gender.”
Rethinking Stage 3 Meaningful Use to address key care disparities – NueMD
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) is a non-partisan group made up of more than 50 consumer, patient and labor organizations and led by the National Partnership for Women & Families, a group that has been working in health information technology policy since 2005.
Paid Family Leave and Older Adults – National Hispanic Council on Aging
Paid family leave refers to policies that allow workers to take time off from work to recover from illness, to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a newly born or adopted child.
Expansion of Family and Medical Leave Act proposed – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Twenty years after Congress enacted the Family and Medical Leave Act, the law continues to evolve.
Expanding paid sick days in the District – Washington Post
“Expansion of the District’s law on paid sick days to include bar and restaurant workers…is badly needed. It is unfortunate that opponents are trotting out the same baseless, discredited arguments they used five years ago to try to block progress.”
Women’s Leader Commends White House Plan to Host Summit on Working Families
Statement of Judith L. Lichtman, Senior Advisor, National Partnership for Women & Families
Workers welcome Obama’s new home health care rules – People’s World
Debra Ness of the National Partnership for Women and Families… called them “a tremendous victory for home care workers, fair pay, quality care and the well-being of our nation. The home care workforce has been grossly undervalued for much too long…Nearly half of home care workers rely on public assistance to make ends meet because of poverty-level wages and few benefits. These regulations will help change this grave injustice and improve working conditions.”
Exceeding Patient Expectations: 6 Simple Techniques – Physicians Practique
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, 80 percent of patients who have access to their health information through an EHR use it.
Push for LGBT data collection in Stage 3 – Healthcare IT News
“We have the chance to leverage Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use Program to make significant progress in addressing disparities, said Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families – the group spearheading the CPeH coalition – in a press statement.
Fair Shot Campaign Aims To Move Work/Family Policy Fight Beyond ‘Women’s Issues’ Label – ThinkProgress
“The ability to decide when and how we have children is critical to our economic well-being,” said Judy Lichtman of the National Partnership for Women and Families.
What’s Best for Babies? Moms Who Get Great Benefits – Huffington Post
Right now, such benefits are still purely dependent on where you work. I can tell you about 100 employers that are committed to supporting new working parents, but for too many employees, the juggle is still a struggle. That’s why we joined with the National Partnership for Women and Families to demand a federal mandate for paid family leave.
