The latest issue of Modern Healthcare lists the Top 25 Women in Healthcare, naming our very own Mary Kay Henry as one of those on the front lines to reforming our healthcare system to provide quality, affordable healthcare for all.

In the article, Henry talks about the stress that's being put on healthcare workers as they're forced to accept pay-cuts and work multiple jobs, specifically citing home-care workers in California taking a 10% pay cut due to budget cuts.

The SEIU represents home-care workers in 14 states, and Henry is strategizing to organize those in more states. She says professionalizing home care is especially important as waves of millions of baby boomers age and want to stay in their homes for as long as possible. "A lot of home-care workers are ghetto-ized into housework," she says. [...] And she sees healthcare as a ladder out of poverty. "A lot of our members, because of the low wages, need to work multiple jobs," Henry says. "Home care could migrate them through the continuum of care, with proper training."

"We're on the cliff of very fundamental reform in our healthcare system," Henry told Modern Healthcare. "Our members want a seat at the table." She spends much of her time visiting members to give them a voice, both on the job and also as part of the debate over reforming the healthcare system.