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Over 500,000 American children are in foster care, taken away when their families are in crisis and can’t take care of them. Thirty eight percent of California’s foster care population live in Los Angeles County (http://kids-alliance.org/facts-stats/).

 

The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) uses the definition of foster care found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), where it is defined as “24-hour substitute care for children outside their own homes.”2 2 Title 45, Volume 4, Part 1355, Section 57. Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes, group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and preadoptive homes.

 

The preferred goal for children in care is permanency with caring parents.

Children’s Action Network (http://www.childrensactionnetwork.org/) is working to achieve this goal by using the power of the entertainment community to increase awareness about children’s issues and to make them a top priority in everyday life.

 

Through a variety of programs, the Children’s Action Network is dedicated to finding homes for nearly 130,000 children in the United States who are waiting for an adoptive family and improving outcomes for the more than 500,000 children in foster care.

 

On today’s HealthCetera Eve Adler speaks with Jennifer Perry, a child advocate and the Executive Director of the Children’s Action Network about her work in California and nationwide. Jennifer has been the recipient of the Nancy Daly Advocacy Award by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) to honor her work in going that extra mile for improving the well being of young people.

 

Tune in on Thursday at 1:00pm to HealthCetera Radio on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City, or streaming online at www.wbai.org; or you can listen to the interview anytime by clicking here:

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Over 500,000 American children are in foster

Affordable Care Act, Health, Policy, Prevention & Treatment, Radio/Podcast, Women's Health

Last week, New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said this:

“(The Affordable Care Act) said to women of America, ‘You can’t be charged more just because you’re a woman.’ It said, ‘You can’t be dropped coverage when you become pregnant.’ Imagine becoming pregnant and having your insurer drop coverage because you are no longer economic or you cost too much money. Imagine being a cancer survivor and then having your coverage dropped because you survived cancer, and you cost too much money.

We made sure contraception, preventive care service, health care screenings, mammograms were affordable and accessible, and if we take that away, these families are left without the basic care they need to survive. So if you love women, and you love your mothers and daughters and wives—please do not unwind the Affordable Care Act. We need women’s health protected, and that’s what this amendment does.”

Republicans have  no firm plan for replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Many women are concerned an ACA repeal will have a negative impact on their reproductive health. For women, one of the biggest benefits of the Affordable Care Act has been access to no-cost birth control.

 

Republicans don’t need to repeal Obamacare in full to deny women access to no-cost contraception. Rather, they need only to remove birth control from the list of preventative services providers are required to cover without co-pay.

HealthCetera’s Barbara Glickstein interviewed certified nurse midwife Christa Palancia Esposito C.N.M., M.S. on the impact on girls and women if the birth control mandate is repealed. Ms. Palancia Esposito is a Visiting Instructor at Fairfield University Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies. She is a practicing nurse midwife at Women’s Health Care of Connecticut in Trumbull, CT.

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HealthCetera, Media Engagement, Policy, Radio/Podcast

December 2016, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced VA Grants Full Practice Authority to Advance Practice Registered Nurses. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) were not included in this provision as one of the APRN roles that may be granted full practice authority at this time. 

David J. Shulkin, MD., is currently serving in the Obama administration as VA undersecretary, he will lead the Department of Veterans Affairs under the new administration. Shulkin was the primary voice inside the VA for excluding nurse anesthetists from the APRN practice authority regulations.  Concerns going forward include whether this provision will be repealed/amended and how it will be implemented across practice areas throughout the VA facilities.

HealthCetera’s Barbara Glickstein asked Mary Chesney PhD, APRN, CNP, FAANP, FAAN, to weigh in on Shulkin’s appointment and potential impact on the future of APRNs and CRNAs full practice authority. Dr. Chesney is a Full Clinical Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She is past president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and chaired The Health Policy Committee.

Tune into HealthCetera Thursday, January 19 at 1 PM to 99.5 FM streamed live www.wbai.org or you can listen to the interview here

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December 2016, the U.S. Department of Veterans

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