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. There are different models for how integrated care is delivered, but care coordination makes all the difference. What is care coordination?

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Healthcare Communication Medicaid Treatment Planning 52

KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Foster or Adopt – There’s a child or teen who needs someone just like YOU – and at KVC, we make sure the opportunity to foster is open to all people. ” How We Can Stop Kids from Sleeping in Offices No child should sleep in an office – it’s wrong.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare 59

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

.” It does not define RTF’s, but the term clearly refers to facilities that provide behavioral health services in a residential context to children with funding from programs under SFC jurisdiction, mainly Medicaid and foster care funds under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

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Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 158

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

And sure enough, the developers say, it works! How do they know? If this all weren’t so dangerous the answer would be laugh-out-loud funny: They know it works, they say, not because the algorithm was good at predicting actual child abuse, but because, in many cases, it was good at predicting whether a child would wind up in foster care!

Child Welfare 98

Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Self-harm 98

Social Work Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When the COVID-19 PHE ends, which is expected in 2023, state agencies will begin the “unwinding” of continuous Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by going through the redetermination process for all enrollees. Unwinding refers to the return to normal operations for Medicaid and CHIP agencies after the COVID-19 PHE ends.

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Medicaid Advocacy Communication Social Worker 98

Relias

JULY 14, 2023

More recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its Maternity Care Action Plan , which also focuses on improving maternal health outcomes and advancing health equity. Stated goals include reducing premature deliveries, infections, and severe pregnancy complications.

Clinic 52

Clinic Mental Health Domestic Violence Healthcare 52

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

­The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule in August 2022 to improve maternal health outcomes and advance health equity — two of the Biden-Harris Administration’s key priorities. But it’s also important to adopt a holistic view of the maternal healthcare experience. Sadly, U.S.

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Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

Social Current wants to blast a huge loophole into federal law to make it easier for states to use federal Medicaid funds on the worst option of all: institutionalizing children. Repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act – or at least strong backing for legislation proposed by Rep. Repeal of the CAPTA. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

Child Welfare 109

Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Adoption 109

KVC

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Healthcare policy shifts like the Medicaid expansion have helped in this arena, but insurance isn’t the only limitation on healthcare access. They provide family strengthening services , foster care , family reunification services , foster family recruitment and support , adoption , aftercare , outpatient therapy and more.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Mental Health Telehealth Child Welfare 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The Senator who chaired the committee, Ron Wyden, called on the Justice Department to investigate these chains for allegedly defrauding Medicaid and violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves.

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