CO4Kids

MARCH 3, 2025

Back to Blogs News & Press Colorado recognizes March as Brain Injury Awareness Month DENVER (March 3, 2025) More than 5,000 Coloradans are hospitalized with a brain injury each year and more than a half-million Coloradans are living with a brain injury. Brain injuries can impact anyone, said Russha Knauer, director of MINDSOURCE.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a move that would have been unheard-of just a few years ago, New Jersey Spotlight News reports that the state Attorney General is suing a chain of hospitals to stop them from performing clandestine drug tests on pregnant women and then reporting the results to the family police. Some even are celebrated.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Additionally, a 10% increase in opioid-related hospitalizations was associated with a 2.9% Adoption, foster home recruitment, and reunification services The act provides 8 million dollars in competitive grants to support the recruitment and retention of highly qualified foster families. increase in children entering foster care.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. Meet Children Who Need Loving, Adoptive Forever Families. BreAnna, Taniya, Lexi and A’Jaun are children who need adoptive families to provide them with safety, a sense of belonging and unconditional love. Read it now.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

As CBC News reports, that suit calls the modern Canadian family policing system "the next round of cultural genocide and discrimination toward First Nations." ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2025

Their influence extends beyond hospital walls, reaching into public health, education, policy, and the future of healthcare. The development of nurse-led care models, such as the Transitional Care Model , has improved patient outcomes and reduced hospital readmissions.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The companies that prioritize this are left with employees who adopt the culture of learning and development, which ultimately leads to a growth mindset.” By adopting a culture of learning, you not only improve staff retention but also create quality outcomes for your residents, giving you a competitive edge in the market.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Transformational leadership, the preferred management style of Magnet®-designated hospitals, has been shown to transform teams to higher levels of practice. Today’s healthcare leaders continuously face the challenge of meeting high expectations and adapting to change.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This comes on the heels of AP’s revelation that the most far-reaching – and most highly-touted – such algorithm of all, the one in Pittsburgh, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” In the footnote to that sentence, the writers list only one study , which concerns only one type of facility, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities , a particular model the provides the equivalent of in-patient psychiatric services outside a hospital setting to young people under 21 through an agreement with a State Medicaid agency.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Also: You know all those stories claiming there was an increase in hospital admissions for abusive head trauma? Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. That wasn’t true either. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Alphonso The Surveillance Tentacles of the Child Welfare SystemCharlotte Baughman, Tehra Coles, Jennifer Feinberg & Hope Newton Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare, Theresa Rocha Beardall & Frank Edwards Reimagining Schools’ Role Outside the Family Regulation System, Brianna Harvey, Josh Gupta-Kagan (..)

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This includes donors, volunteers, advocates, partner organizations, kinship families, resource families including foster and adoptive parents, youth and adult clients, and KVC team members nationwide. Anyone who cares about child and family wellbeing is encouraged to attend! Learn more about this special event!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation.

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Relias

MARCH 9, 2025

VR is experiencing a rapid increase in adoption in healthcare education as the software has improved, real-time feedback has become more precise and effective, and headsets have become more affordable. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1 in 31 hospital patients contracts an HAI every day.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

While most healthcare organizations have eight-hour shifts, many hospitals have relied on 12-hour shifts since the 1970s. According to recent research, longer shifts for hospital nurses lead to increased errors, burnout, patient dissatisfaction , and can potentially affect nurse well-being.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Under section 13 of the MHA , councils must arrange for AMHPs to consider cases in which an application may need to be made to admit a person to hospital under the act. Once beds had been identified, AMHPs often faced further delays in securing transport to take the person to hospital.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? Would you permanently separate us as a family and prevent five siblings from having a life and future together?

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Section 117 of the MHA is a duty to provide aftercare services to people who have been detained under sections 3, 37, 45A, 47 or 48 of the MHA and who then cease to be detained and leave hospital. The MHA code of practice (paragraphs 33.20

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

One family took their five-month-old to a hospital with what they thought was a rash on his knee, and were told that it was an unexplained bruise. The hospital carried out a full skeletal survey, involving multiple x-rays, along with a CT scan of the child’s head, which found no injuries.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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Relias

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the American Hospital Association’s Regulatory Overload Report , health systems, hospitals, and post-acute care organizations spend about $39 billion annually to comply with up to 629 federal regulatory requirements (341 for hospitals and 288 for post-acute care).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? And in Seattle, Fox 13 reports , a judge ruled that a rush to judgment by a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital was "based on conscious and unconscious bias towards people from minority communities. Or haven’t been reunited with them?

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Focusing on individual errors or specific cases to eliminate the causes, the authors reasoned, would not be as effective as adopting a systemic approach. For example, what are the rates of satisfactory outcomes, surgical complications, or hospital-acquired infections? The importance of data collection for measuring health care quality.

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

Section 117 places a duty on health authorities and local social services authorities to provide aftercare services for people who have left hospital following compulsory detention for treatment for mental disorder under the MHA (for example, under section 3). What does section 117 say? of the guidance).

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Community Care

JUNE 10, 2024

New DoLS prioritisation tool Against this backdrop, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has adopted a new tool to help councils prioritise DoLS applications that was developed by West Midlands ADASS. No more automatic priority for hospitals The new priority tool has removed the concept of setting specific priority.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

For example: In 2023, A Pennsylvania jury awarded $183 million to the family of a boy born with severe brain injuries due to a delayed C-section at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Adopt high-reliability practices Building a culture of high reliability is crucial.

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KVC

JULY 16, 2023

For example, KVC and its supporters care for thousands of children in foster care , help hundreds of children either to be adopted or to safely reunify with their families , and provide life-changing treatment at its children’s mental health hospitals.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Caring for an individual’s holistic health has only begun to gain widespread acceptance and adoption within the last several decades. One of the other major challenges facing the adoption of value-based contracts in behavioral health is more clinical. Know what is “in it for them.” How do you stack up to peer organizations?

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All For Kids

JANUARY 5, 2025

Make holiday cards, birthday cards, and notes for assisted living facilities, patients in a local hospital, or meals on wheels. Read books to young kids at a library, family shelter, or childrens hospital. Kids in the hospital use lots of art supplies. Help a foster or adoptive family! Host a crayon and marker drive!

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Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

Porter and Teisberg theorized that competition in the fee-for-service model has been happening among health plans, networks, and hospitals instead of where it should happen — in the areas of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of health conditions. What are the obstacles delaying value-based care?

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Relias

MAY 25, 2022

Work effectively with emergency response units, accompany the individual in crisis to the hospital, and help facilitate their care with the staff at the hospital. Any learning solution you adopt needs to help improve the clinical performance of your staff. How DSPs Can Navigate Large-Scale Crisis. Clean water and food.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. Care coordinators work in numerous settings including roles in hospitals and outpatient care facilities. What is care coordination?

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Relias

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The healthcare revenue cycle is important for every hospital and healthcare practice. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the widespread adoption of remote work has caused revenue cycle managers to rely on data and dashboards to monitor productivity.

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