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

Bipolar Bandit

Administrative pressure to reduce hospital emergency lengths of stay can result in premature discharges. The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. Most states have overly restrictive involuntary hold laws. What is the IMD exclusion and why should it be repealed?

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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.” The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica.