Gary Direnfeld

MAY 27, 2022

It came on the heels of a day that began with a call to go to hospital at 7:00 am. I again can get the call to go to hospital at anytime. Beyond my family, there is you, extended kin, closest of friends – my adopted family members, friends, colleagues, and those whom I haven’t met but who share space with me virtually.

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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. They move to change the case goal for the children from reunification to adoption.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But when she came to KVC Hospitals, she received comprehensive medical and psychiatric treatment. Meet Children Who Need Loving, Adoptive Forever Families. BreAnna, Taniya, Lexi and A’Jaun are children who need adoptive families to provide them with safety, a sense of belonging and unconditional love. Read it now.

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Social Care

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The programme aims to support the adoption of digital technologies in the adult social care sector. Alongside this, funding support continues to be available through the digitising social care programme for the adoption of digital social care record solutions (DSCR). [Image created by freepik.com ] What is the fund designed to achieve?

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The Guardian

JANUARY 21, 2022

million people are queueing for hospital treatment in the UK, around 6 million of them in England, where this is the highest number since records began in 2007. There are differences in the policies adopted by the devolved administrations to reduce backlogs. In Wales, more than a fifth of the population is waiting for treatment.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Tory MP says proposals will do nothing to stop hospital wards being full of people who should be discharged The former Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt and Labour launched stinging attacks on the government on Wednesday as it unveiled long-awaited social care reform plans lacking significant new funding to resolve the current crisis.

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Relias

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the American Hospital Association’s Regulatory Overload Report , health systems, hospitals, and post-acute care organizations spend about $39 billion annually to comply with up to 629 federal regulatory requirements (341 for hospitals and 288 for post-acute care).

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 15, 2023

These stories appeared just in March and April of 2023: ● In San Diego , KNSD-TV reports , A San Diego mother filed a $10 million wrongful death claim against the county last month, saying Child Welfare Services failed her 11-year-old biological daughter, Aarabella McCormack, who died in the hospital last August.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 21, 2023

I will also be tuning in to the session on hospital social work , which I hope will be of interest to many others too. Social work in hospital settings has contributed so much over the history of the profession and continues to play an important role in shaping future health and social care services.

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Relias

JULY 5, 2023

Additionally, a 10% increase in opioid-related hospitalizations was associated with a 2.9% Adoption, foster home recruitment, and reunification services The act provides 8 million dollars in competitive grants to support the recruitment and retention of highly qualified foster families. increase in children entering foster care.

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Social Care

MAY 25, 2023

We are seeing strong evidence around the role these technologies play in keeping people safe and preventing hospital admissions, but there’s a lot to think through. Solutions supporting delivery of care include vital signs monitoring, falls prevention and detection technologies. We recently announced the launch of our technology fund.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Our resources focus on important carers’ rights that are almost universal – including the right to an assessment, eligibility for a free flu jab, asking GP practices to identify them as carers, and the right to be identified and consulted before a relative is discharged from hospital. "We Image created by freepik.com ]. Working and caring.

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It’s also been heartening to see the early adopters support others in the sector, sharing their experiences and best practice. We’ve also been looking at how digital innovation supports quality and safety of care, prevents avoidable hospital admissions and supports independence.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

As CBC News reports, that suit calls the modern Canadian family policing system "the next round of cultural genocide and discrimination toward First Nations." ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This includes donors, volunteers, advocates, partner organizations, kinship families, resource families including foster and adoptive parents, youth and adult clients, and KVC team members nationwide. Anyone who cares about child and family wellbeing is encouraged to attend! Learn more about this special event!

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

This year's theme focuses on social workers' capacity to adopt innovative and community-led approaches. Before that I was in a short-stay MDT setting for assessments and reablement for adults following hospital discharge or community referral and other varied roles in the sector.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This comes on the heels of AP’s revelation that the most far-reaching – and most highly-touted – such algorithm of all, the one in Pittsburgh, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Transformational leadership, the preferred management style of Magnet®-designated hospitals, has been shown to transform teams to higher levels of practice. Today’s healthcare leaders continuously face the challenge of meeting high expectations and adapting to change.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator. Macro Social Work. Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There are only 8-10 federal Neuro psychiatric hospitals in the country and when these facilities are available, the average person can’t afford it thereby leaving a larger population to self diagnose themselves with information online. Another barrier is adoption. How many people are aware of these technologies?

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed. KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Caring for an individual’s holistic health has only begun to gain widespread acceptance and adoption within the last several decades. One of the other major challenges facing the adoption of value-based contracts in behavioral health is more clinical. Know what is “in it for them.” How do you stack up to peer organizations?

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? And in Seattle, Fox 13 reports , a judge ruled that a rush to judgment by a doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital was "based on conscious and unconscious bias towards people from minority communities. Or haven’t been reunited with them?

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For many hospitals, achieving better outcomes begins with the implementation of improved patient safety protocols. While bedside alarms are common in most hospital settings, technological innovations like medicine barcode scanning and laser temperature checks continue to improve the quality and efficiency of patient monitoring.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Also: You know all those stories claiming there was an increase in hospital admissions for abusive head trauma? Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. That wasn’t true either. ?

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Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

Porter and Teisberg theorized that competition in the fee-for-service model has been happening among health plans, networks, and hospitals instead of where it should happen — in the areas of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of health conditions. What are the obstacles delaying value-based care?

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A recommended leadership style The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) recommends the transformational leadership style for hospitals seeking to achieve their Magnet® designation. Anyone can adopt the transformational leadership style by reflecting on their attitudes and mindset.

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Social Work Bubble

MARCH 14, 2022

Mezzo Social Workers have the following jobs: Executive Director of Nonprofit Board Member of Organization Program Director School Social Worker Hospital Administrator Community Center Grant Writer Deputy Director Group Work Facilitator Macro Social Work Finally, Macro Social Work is a broad field of social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

(And CWLA’s long-ago apology rings hollow – since they still support draconian policing laws such as the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.) And see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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Social Workers Speak

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Some child advocates argue that birth certificates shouldn’t be reissued when a child is adopted; In some cases, the process can essentially erase an adoptee’s origins, said Will Francis, the Texas chapter executive director of the National Association of Social Workers. “But it does not need to erase history to exist.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Alphonso The Surveillance Tentacles of the Child Welfare SystemCharlotte Baughman, Tehra Coles, Jennifer Feinberg & Hope Newton Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare, Theresa Rocha Beardall & Frank Edwards Reimagining Schools’ Role Outside the Family Regulation System, Brianna Harvey, Josh Gupta-Kagan (..)

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Relias

MAY 25, 2022

Work effectively with emergency response units, accompany the individual in crisis to the hospital, and help facilitate their care with the staff at the hospital. Any learning solution you adopt needs to help improve the clinical performance of your staff. How DSPs Can Navigate Large-Scale Crisis. Clean water and food.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 14, 2024

And rather than face clandestine drug testing and suspicion from medical professionals who are mandatory reporters, pregnant people stay away from prenatal care and giving birth in hospitals. Mandatory reporting is where the racial bias that permeates family policing begins. Among those who suffer most: Children of domestic violence victims.

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Relias

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The healthcare revenue cycle is important for every hospital and healthcare practice. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the widespread adoption of remote work has caused revenue cycle managers to rely on data and dashboards to monitor productivity.

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