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Pediatrician, commissioners stress need to fund foster-care health services as levy debate nears
Summary
A Cincinnati Children’s pediatrician urged Hamilton County commissioners to back a tax levy to sustain federally mandated health evaluations and preventive services for children entering foster care, citing cases where prompt exams averted medical crises and a digital platform that improved care coordination.
Mary Griner, M.D., a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and medical director for the foster-care health program, told the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners that mandated health evaluations for children entering foster care have identified urgent, previously unknown conditions and prevented crises. “These evaluations are really essential,” Griner said, describing a 2-year-old whose prior diagnosis of HIV and need for nighttime oxygen were unknown to a new foster family and a 15-year-old with uncontrolled type 1 diabetes who required prompt hospital admission.
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