Families USA Foundation
$300,087
Washington, DC — Two-year grant for support to: 1) improve the capacity of the State Health Insurance and Assistance Programs (SHIPs) to resolve systemic problems of Medicare and become better counselors for Medicare recipients and 2) build the capacity of the Health Assistance Partnership (HAP) to become a better advocate for Medicare improvements at the national level.

Research Triangle Institute
$199,967
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — Two-year grant for research using new data from the National Nursing Assistant Survey to examine: 1) the link between workforce variables and patient care outcomes, and 2) characteristics of the immigrant workforce in institutional long-term care (LTC) settings.