Skip to main content

The timeline can be navigated with the “Scroll Left” and “Scroll Right” buttons or by dragging the pointer to a date on the timeline waveform (located at the bottom of the screen on the desktop version and on the left of the screen on mobile). To filter by a particular topic and see a smaller section of the data, make a selection on the dropdown “Filters” menu or click “Search” to do a keyword search. Hover over the abbreviated filter tags in the blue boxes to see the complete name of the filter, or click a filter to display all the data with this tag. If you want to take a deeper dive into a specific topic by viewing a narrative essay page and a curated timeline, click on “Stories.”

Read More

New York State instates a requirement that all home healthcare aides pass a written test.

Date: 1989

HOME
MED

The certification test is implemented to provide oversight, but advocates and workers are concerned about the way that this test could exclude qualified members from their workforce. This change threatens to fuel the shortage of home health aides.