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Supervisors advance review of psychotropic medication use in foster care after dispute over media reporting
Summary
After an extended presentation on prescribing to foster children, Alameda County supervisors approved Item 6 following exchanges over media coverage that residents and a supervisor said unfairly singled out a contractor. County staff stressed system-level drivers and defended the provider Pathways to Wellness.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to advance Item 6 on Oct. 28 after a lengthy presentation and discussion about psychotropic and antipsychotic prescribing for children in foster care.
Supervisor Nate Miley pressed Health Care Services and Behavioral Health staff for detail and said she had considered pulling the item because of “disturbing” media coverage that she said unfairly singled out a county contractor. “An African American woman who's built up a company…was not treated well in the media,” Miley said on the record, adding that the treatment “pissed me off.”
County staff,…
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