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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. The IMD Exclusion must be repealed because it is the main reason that inpatient psychiatric hospitals have eliminated so many beds. In the 1950s, state hospitals provided respite and asylum for the mentally ill population.

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Community Spotlight Series

Center for Child Protection

February: Dell Children’s Health Plan provides essential healthcare coverage for pregnant mothers, newborns, and children, assisting with Medicaid and other applications to ensure their clients receive necessary healthcare.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Expand Medicaid: Less “neglect.” If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. . ● The Imprint has a good round-up of research documenting the confusion of poverty with neglect. Increase SNAP benefits: Less “neglect.”