Continuity of Care for Children in Foster Care

Continuity of care for children in foster care.

OBJECTIVE To compare the continuity of care experienced by children who are in foster care with that of children who are not in foster care and are covered under Medicaid managed care and Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS). METHODS This retrospective cohort study used Medicaid claims/encounter data from Washington state. A total of 903 children who were in foster care and continuously enrolled in...

Caring for children in foster care.

Achieving better health care outcomes for children in foster care.

This article reviews the challenges health care systems face as they attempt to improve health care outcomes for children in foster care. It discusses several of the promising health care strategies occurring outside the perimeter of child welfare and identifies some of the key impasses in working alongside efforts in child welfare reform. The authors posit that the greatest impasse in establis...

Differences in Morbidity Among Children in Foster Care and Non-foster Care Children

The Living Situations of Children in Foster Care: Which is Better, Kinship Foster Care or Non-Kinship Foster Care?

i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would sincerely like to thank Dr. Stacia Robertson for helping my paper come together and being a wonderful advocate. Michelle Mansfield has been a great aid in making sure that everything in the program went as planned. I really appreciate how I could call Ms. Mansfield for any questions I had. I would also like to thank Grant Drawve for helping me with my formatting. I wo...