This story was updated at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 21 to add comment from MassHealth. BOSTON — For Suzanne, the 14 hours and 45 minutes of personal care assistance paid for by MassHealth is a lifeline — ...

As America’s population grows older and drives up demand for long-term care, nursing centers are continuing their decades-long struggle to fill direct care positions — the qualified caregivers who ...

When Edwards resident Evie Rosen-Budd and her husband moved to Eagle County in 2000 from a larger California community, they struggled with finding enough services for Bill, who suffered from a ...

Governor Maura Healey lamented the “crisis-level” shortages in MassHealth’s Personal Care Attendant Program earlier this year. Fixing it, she pledged, would crown “the top of the list.” Okay, here’s ...

BOSTON — The House's fiscal 2025 budget proposal will carry over funding for the state’s personal care attendant program — which was originally slimmed down in the governor’s budget — as disability ...

TALLAHASEEE, Fla. (CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE) - The Florida House gave tentative approval for nursing homes to substitute a new class of employees known a Personal Care Attendants for some of the duties of ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida House on Wednesday gave tentative approval for long-term care facilities to substitute a new class of employees, known as personal care attendants, for some of the ...

The Massachusetts offices of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which represents an estimated 3,000 personal care attendants in Worcester. PHOTO/GOOGLE Personal care attendants across ...

Citing an increase in fraud, Auditor Suzanne Bump declared Thursday that her investigators will be paying close attention to personal care attendants who work with MassHealth recipients who have ...

I have a spinal cord injury which caused me to permanently have to use a wheelchair. My everyday basic needs depend upon caring and reliable personal care attendants to assist me to dress, bathe and ...

SPRINGFIELD — Wages for the state’s 58,000 personal care attendants increased by 50 cents an hour last week under a union contract signed in 2023. Pay now ranges from $20 an hour for early-career PCAs ...