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Everything You Need to Know About Mental Health Case Management

Famcare

Mental health issues have been identified in more than 50 million Americans. The most prevalent mental ailment among Americans is depression, but they also have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD.

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DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

Community Care

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. “There is little or no accountability when services fail people.

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Risk of ‘poor or potentially illegal’ practice in care home discharge plan, warns ADASS

Community Care

That was the warning from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), in response to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) plan to give the NHS £200m to block-book step down beds in care homes to which to discharge some of the 14,000 people who are medically fit to leave hospital but cannot.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US. The only ones I could find that took my insurance was a drug and alcohol rehab, that also treated secondary mental health issues.

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The Pandemic and Your Kids

Gary Direnfeld

Married and moved to Hamilton, I took a job at a hospital based brain injury rehabilitation program. I have developed and managed two brain injury rehabilitation programs, both lost owing to legislative changes to auto insurance. After graduating and four years later, I applied to a PhD program in social work and was rejected.

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Finley Boden: professionals should have protected baby murdered by his parents, review finds

Community Care

In both cases for mental health and substance misuse problems, and in Boden’s for a history of offending, including in relation to domestic abuse. On her return to work, social worker 2 carried out an unannounced visit to Marsden and Boden but was refused access and greeted with hostility.

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Celebrate National Nurses Week — and Read Our Nurse Salary and Job Satisfaction Report

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Nurses make the difference in health care Nurses are the backbone of our healthcare system, providing essential services to patients across the continuum of care. They are involved in every aspect of health care — from prevention and education to diagnosis and treatment, to recovery and rehabilitation.