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Hospitals and advocates urge plan to reduce long hospital stays for children in state care
Summary
Clinicians from Boston Children's Hospital and child welfare advocates urged a bill to require state agencies to develop coordinated plans so children involved with state agencies can access behavioral health services and return to appropriate placements without prolonged hospital stays.
Pediatric psychiatrists and social workers described multiple cases in which children under state supervision remained in hospitals for weeks or months after they were medically or psychiatrically ready for discharge because there was no appropriate post‑acute placement. Dr. Johannes Anglero Diaz, medical director of Boston Children's medical and psychiatric inpatient unit, said the hospital sometimes cannot place…
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