Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Raising thresholds for detention The bill, which is yet to be published, is expected to raise thresholds for detention in hospital, both for assessment (section 2) and for treatment (section 3). ” He said that, alongside the bill, the government needed to invest in community alternatives to long-stay hospitals. .

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Mental Health Disability Hospitals Treatment Planning 69

Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. However, she raised concerns about the time-limited nature of resourcing of them.

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Disability Hospitals Mental Health Rehabilitation 67

Community Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Integrating local authority social workers within NHS mental health trusts can help reduce the number of “harmful” out of area hospital placements (OAPs), a report has found. This had had the unintended consequence of social workers who lacked mental health experience being assigned to support a patient.

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Mental Health Social Worker Patient Safety Hospitals 58

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Older people are being unlawfully detained in mental health hospitals “in very many cases” because of poor practice around the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the Care Quality Commission has warned. It said the issue was exacerbated for people from black and minority groups living in deprived areas.

Mental Health 56

Mental Health Hospitals Patient Safety Government 56

Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the 2.1bn improved BCF grant which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospital discharge and 0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge.

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Hospital Discharges Recovery Hospitals Government 60

International Federation of Social Workers

MAY 6, 2024

This has resulted in significant loss of life and the destruction of houses, hospitals, transport […] Over the last days we have witnessed devastating floods in many countries around the world.

Hospitals 122

Hospitals 122

Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

The BCF policy framework for 2025-26 said such teams were designed to provide “more integrated and proactive care for people with complex needs”, to help them “stay independent for as long as possible” and reduce the likelihood of them being admitted to hospital or care homes.

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Social Worker Hospitals Rehabilitation Disability 41

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals. When patients with serious mental illness are not in jail or hospitalized, crisis can occur anywhere. I evaluate patients at hospital emergency rooms and inpatient medical units. . My job is to make this happen. What do you mean by “mobile”? It’s very common.

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Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Social Work Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Eligible entities: state, local, and tribal governments; community-based and faith-based organizations; hospitals; and institutions of higher education. Eligible entities: state, local, and tribal governments; community-based and faith-based organizations; hospitals; and institutions of higher education. Applications due: May 6.

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Domestic Violence Administration Disorder Hospitals 128

CCRC

JANUARY 21, 2025

Diaper Initiative: An effort to provide a three-month supply of diapers at no cost to California families with newborn babies via hospital systems to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes. Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) : Provisions for the states Medi-Cal budget.

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Schools Human Services Advocacy University 80

Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 30, 2022

Inpatient Hospitalization. Partial Hospitalization. Avoid Unhealthy Relationships. No smoking or drugs. Sleep Regularly. Minimize Stress. Support Groups. Therapists. Religious Groups. ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) Information. TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) Information.

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Disorder Psychotherapy Hospitals Therapist 111

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.

Domestic Violence 52

Domestic Violence Hospitals Human Services Advocacy 52

KVC

JULY 20, 2021

KVC Health Systems’ local subsidiaries are: KVC Hospitals. KVC Hospitals – Children’s Psychiatric Treatment. Our team implements innovative, neuroscience-based treatment approaches at our inpatient acute psychiatric hospitals and residential psychiatric treatment centers serving Kansas and Missouri. KVC Kansas.

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Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare Psychiatric 98

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Diana’s first job as a social worker at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital earned her recognition by Glamour Magazine (September 1965) as being a “Girl with Go Jobs.” Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital. Years later, Diana and her children would care for Arthur as he suffered from, and then succumbed in 1990, to heart disease.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Hospice University 112

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Department of Psychiatry, Nair Hospital, Mumbai, with support from the Pirojsha Godrej Foundation, has made an effort to develop two short videos (enclosed) for creating awareness on two major mental health issues in adults and children – Mental Depression, and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) respectively.

Mental Health 98

Mental Health Psychiatry Hospitals Disorder 98

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

As the Des Moines Register explains , the baby was born healthy, but so quickly there wasn’t time to get to a hospital first. State guidelines say hospitals are not supposed to test mothers without their consent, but they can go right ahead and do it to the babies, making the guidelines effectively meaningless. The hospital refused.

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Foster Care Hospitals Human Services Child Welfare 113

Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I also worked in the mental health field for three years during this time, helping mentally ill patients in hospital settings. My Hospitalization and Treatment at Home I was in the hospital for six weeks, stabilized on new medications so I could sleep, and given ECT treatments. I was in a psychosis.

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Depression Disorder Mental Health Hospitals 111

Community Care

MARCH 3, 2025

However, the CQC found Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospital discharge, care home placements, home care services, reablement, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and safeguarding cases.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Government Disability 51

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

hospitals calls for screening a woman’s urine for drugs before she gives birth, despite the test itself being notoriously unreliable and easily manipulated by other substances. Writing for the libertarian Reason Foundation , Layal Bou Harfouch says: The current standard of care in U.S.

Child Welfare 80

Child Welfare Adoption Welfare Hospitals 80

International Federation of Social Workers

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Association of Social Workers from Bulgaria, represented by Valio Hristov, Diana Petrova, and Ivailo Milanov, together with Ana Rădulescu (President of IFSW Europe) and Herbert Paulischin (Representative of the […]

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Social Worker Hospitals 98

The New Social Worker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If you are a field instructor in a hospital setting, here’s my recommendation: assign The Emergency to your student. If you’re a social work student or a new social worker in the hospital environment, seek this book out.

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Hospitals Social Worker 94

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The actual title is “What do Do If You Are Mistakenly Accused of Child Abuse in a Hospital Emergency Room.” Then comes a claim that, for some hospitals, is demonstrably false. The hospital contacts CPS only when staff suspect maltreatment. And these are just the hospitals that will say it out loud.

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Hospitals Child Welfare Interviewing Foster Care 98

Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 20, 2024

Child Welfare Social Worker vs. Social Services Specialist III) Organization Type: (Government, Non-profit, For-profit, Outside social services) Setting: (School, Clinic, Hospital, etc.) However, during my MSW internship at a pediatric hospital, I realized how the resilience of young patients facing serious illnesses deeply moved me.

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Healthcare Psychosocial Hospitals Diversity 130

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Their father is eager to take them in, but at the time of the removal he’s in the hospital. That’s because after he was hit by a drunk driver and confined to a wheelchair it led to medical complications that sometimes require hospitalization. Here’s the detail: Dad’s mobility isn’t compromised because he’s confined to a wheelchair.

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Child Welfare Welfare Foster Care Disability 125

The New Social Worker

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The God Committee follows deliberations of a hospital transplant committee making a difficult decision. With all of its flaws, it brings attention to issues that are important in social workers and could be used as a starting point for discussion.

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Hospitals Social Worker 105

Bipolar Bandit

OCTOBER 27, 2021

McLean Hospital. While we can try do things to improve our mental health such as exercising, mindfulness, stress management, meditation, etc. Mental illness can’t always be fixed by these. Sources: NIB. More posts from this author can be found at @ameliablackwater. She can be found on Instagram TikTok YouTube Facebook. .

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Mental Health Schizophrenia Substance Abuse PTSD 132

Relias

MAY 1, 2022

Because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not reimburse healthcare organizations for costs associated with hospital- or facility-acquired pressure injuries, appropriate assessment at the time of admission is vital. Those types of complications from hospital-acquired pressure injuries are linked to almost 60,000 U.S.

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Healthcare Hospitals Communication Medicare 98

The New Social Worker

APRIL 27, 2022

Continue Breathing follows the character through his struggles as he develops symptoms, first seeks help, becomes stabilized, becomes hospitalized, and falters along the way. Jordan has a mental illness. Read The New Social Worker’s review.

Hospitals 97

Hospitals 97

Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

When Sharma worked for a hospital in Nepal, a tragic event triggered her future path. I was the only social worker working at the hospital. After the tragedy, Sharma stressed to hospital administrators the importance of setting up a volunteer counseling and testing center. That really disturbed me,” Sharma reflects. “I

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Hospitals Administration Counseling Social Worker 90

Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2025

. “Thats quite likely to lead, if you dont have a downstairs loo, to you falling down the stairs and ending up in hospital unnecessarily. The indirect impact on the NHS. “The frustration that causes to clinicians is extraordinary.” ” The impact on providers.

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Government Hospitals 54

Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the £2.1bn improved BCF – which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospital discharge – and £0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge.

Hospital Discharges 55

Hospital Discharges Recovery Government Hospitals 55

Bipolar Bandit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

My journey included multiple suicide attempts, repeated hospitalizations, and many failed attempts to treat my illness with various medications. Wellness is not limited to physical training but that’s where my journey began. For most of my life I’ve grappled with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem.

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Mental Health Anxiety Depression Hospitals 122

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Too many people ended up in hospital because of significant underinvestment in community health services, while there had been a slowdown in patient flow through hospitals because of falling productivity. “This means older people have been stuck in acute hospital wards rather than in facilities better suited to their needs.”

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Government Hospitals Mental Health Clinic 67

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And yet, when a jury awarded the family in what is widely known as the “Take Care of Maya” case $261 million in damages for what a Florida hospital did to them, the hospital said it will appeal because it was simply doing what it was required to do – as mandated reporters! And so we continued to struggle. ●

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Child Welfare Hospitals Foster Care Welfare 105

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 31, 2022

When I first considered meditation, my mind was still troubled by an episode of mania that resulted in a hospitalization. Even expert, world-famous teachers have students who have come apart, some requiring hospitalization. You’ll just sit there agitated and ruminate and your condition will likely get worse. Seek help elsewhere.

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Anxiety Depression Disorder Hospitals 98

Social Work Blog

JULY 1, 2024

As we described in our amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief , community-based housing and mental health services are a more effective and less expensive way to address homelessness than incarceration or hospitalization.

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Mental Health Psychiatric Disability Interventional 105