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4 Phases of Emergency Management for Hospitals and Health Systems

Relias

Healthcare leaders should implement these steps in all hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities. Mitigation involves identifying potential risks specific to hospitals and communities. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes can cause severe damage to hospital infrastructure and disrupt services.

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Drenched in trendy psychobabble, legislation in New Hampshire proposes to fight trauma with trauma.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Under this bill, all this trauma could be inflicted anytime a caseworker concludes that a childs physical, emotional or psychological welfare is at risk. Few things put a childs emotional or psychological welfare more at risk than being the subject of a child abuse investigation. Almost nothing puts it more at risk than foster care.

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Police opens investigation into abuse at mental health hospital revealed by BBC

Community Care

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Olivia, a patient who agreed to be featured on the programme, saying that her treatment at the hospital had made her serious mental health condition worse. Related articles.

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Guest Post: The Difference Between Mental Health & Mental Illness by Amelia Blackwater

Bipolar Bandit

Mental health reflects “our emotional, psychological, & social well-being.”. McLean Hospital. Wh at is Mental Health? Mental health can affect, how we think, feel, & act. You can have both good or bad mental health. . Mental illness can’t always be fixed by these. Sources: NIB.

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Colorado recognizes March as Brain Injury Awareness Month

CO4Kids

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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The Pandemic and Your Kids

Gary Direnfeld

There I took an elective in psychology and with that applied as a mature student to York University. Married and moved to Hamilton, I took a job at a hospital based brain injury rehabilitation program. If it wasn’t for music, I wouldn’t have made it that far. I was rejected at all five.

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Why Is It So Hard To Ask For Help When Facing Psychological Distress?

Beautiful Voyager

One interesting question raised by the host JF Lacasse was: why is it so hard, especially for men, to talk about their psychological and emotional challenges, and ask for help? Why would men hide their psychological challenges more than women? They are a barrier to the accurate identification and treatment of psychological conditions”.