The News Review:
- Maternal health may help predict child’s ADHD risk
- hio health program slow to reach children
- Family planning service cut
- Local advocates put face on mental health crisis
- Nursing Home Gets Top Rating
Maternal health may help predict child’s ADHD risk
Expressindia.com India
According to Thomas Ray lead author the new study implies “that the diagnoses and health care utilization that a mother receives prior to having her child is predictive of having a child who is diagnosed with ADHD. “”ur study raises the possibility that certain types of mothers those who get or seek diagnoses and who use more health services may be more likely to seek ADHD diagnoses for their children” he added. Ray said that the mothers of children who are diagnosed with ADHD are more likely to be diagnosed with health conditions such as depression and anxiety disorder and use more health services in the year prior to and the two years after the birth of their child. During the study researchers identified three groups: mothers of children with ADHD mother of children without ADHD and mothers of children with asthma.
hio health program slow to reach children
Mansfield News Journal H
At Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland Dr. Leona Cuttler said Monday that social workers have been briefed about the program and which families might be eligible. Cuttler who directs the hospital’s Center for Child Health and Policy said the program would benefit from greater public awareness and case workers who try to alert families of children nearing lifetime maximum benefits. verall enrollment in buy-in programs across the United States has been relatively low because of high premiums according to the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. The hio program’s applications started to creep up during the fall after the state held training programs and seminars Corlett said. The state also could take a closer look at what changes may be necessary he said. “We’re just going to have to figure out what we’re going to do here.
Family planning service cut
Louisville Courier-Journal KY
30 the council planned to contribute $70000 to the Floyd center but reduced the amount to $60000 during the year Rost said. The funding elimination for the current fiscal year affects only family planning services. Rost said the Maternal and Child Health Center will continue providing prenatal services to expectant mothers and pregnancy testing services that are funded separately through other grants despite a 10 percent cut in the budget for those services. She said clients should contact Planned Parenthood at (812) 945-4844) to get family planning services after Jan. Planned Parenthood’s New Albany office was closed yesterday for the holiday. But Liz Carroll vice president of patient services at Planned Parenthood of Indiana’s central office in Indianapolis said the organization’s New Albany clinic would be able to absorb the additional clients.
Local advocates put face on mental health crisis
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review PA
He takes medication to control bipolar once known as manic-depressive behavior and schizophrenia. Kindler has become an advocate for the mentally ill and for the federal and state programs that helped him move from not wanting to leave his home to publicly speaking about the help he and others received. story continues below His message is about the need to increase not cut funding for mental health services. In Pennsylvania the Medicaid-funded Medical Assistance Program reported increased enrollment of more than 25000 in the past year. fficials said Medicaid enrollment and spending increase when the economy declines. “The issue is Medicaid funding — very important not only here but across this country” said Donald H. Goughler president and CE of Family Services of Western Pennsylvania an Allegheny County-based nonprofit that helps people with a range of behavioral health diagnoses as well as general social services issues.
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Nursing Home Gets Top Rating
New Canaan News Review CT
Consumers who go to www. gov can wade through CMS' Nursing Home Compare Web site to discover health inspection survey and staffing level reports and the result of quality measures such as the number of bed sores on at-risk patients. For an at-a-glance measure the CMS created a star quality rating system for the nation's 15800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid. That information is also on the Web site searchable by ZIP code.
