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Hospitals, advocates push for residential treatment beds as pediatric overstays persist
Summary
Hospital officials, providers and advocates told the subcommittee that many children cleared for discharge remain in emergency and inpatient beds while waiting for residential treatment center placements; speakers urged retaining funding for programs that add targeted beds and community services.
Hospital leaders, providers and advocacy groups told the Health and Social Services Subcommittee that pediatric hospital overstays remain a serious operational and clinical problem and urged the legislature to retain or restore funding that would add residential, pediatric acute and community services to shorten hospital stays.
Jane Krenke of the Maryland Hospital Association summarized state data: as of Feb. 14 there were about 59 children across Maryland identified as hospital overstays (medically cleared for discharge but with no…
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