Carol Doherty, previously a five-term Taunton School Committee member and now the 3rd Bristol District State Representative serving parts of Taunton and Easton. Doherty is the daughter of an immigrant family. Her mother came to America at the age of four from the island of Madeira and her father’s family came from Cape Verde. She has lived in Taunton since 1965.
This bill directs the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for filling expected shortages in Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) personnel. It instructs EOHHS to create education and training programs at the scale required and match those programs with clinical slots and employment opportunities at nursing homes, hospitals, and with other health care providers across the Commonwealth. The bill also creates an Incumbent Health Care Worker CNA Certification Pilot Program to demonstrate the impact of new work-based learning programs that offer paid training of incumbent health care workers unable to take advantage of current CNA certification training.