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U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2016. Immigration detention: Additional actions needed to strengthen management and oversight of detainees in medical care. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 65 pp.

Annotation: This report examines the provision and oversight of medical care, including care for women and children, in immigration detention facilities including care. Topics include the extent to which the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has processes for administering detainee medical care and maintaining cost information for care, monitors and assesses compliance with medical care standards, and oversees processes to obtain and address complaints about detainee medical care.

Contact: U.S. Government Accountability Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20548, Telephone: (202) 512-3000 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.gao.gov Available from the website.

Keywords: Children, Compliance, Costs, Immigrants, Medical assistance, Residential facilities, Standards, Women

Dougherty RH, Strod D. 2014. Building consensus on residential measures: Recommendations for outcome and performance measures. Lexington, MA: DMA Health Strategies, 18 pp., plus appendices.

Annotation: This paper reviews efforts to promote consensus on outcome and performance measures and youth/family outcomes for residential programs for youth and families. The paper summarizes various instruments that have been tested, identifies measurement strategies for child and family serving systems and residential programs to implement, presents a proposed core set of measures, and outlines steps to be taken in a consensus-building process for review of the measures.

Contact: DMA Health Strategies, 9 Meriam Street, Suite 4, Lexington, MA 02420, Telephone: (800) 814-7802 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.dmahealth.com Available from the website.

Keywords: Health care systems, Measures, Outcome evaluation, Residential care, Residential facilities, Residential programs, Service delivery systems

Dawkins-Lyn N, Jacobs E, Cheung K, Revels M, Carver L, Krol D. 2013. Dental professionals in non-dental settings. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 32 pp. (Synthesis report)

Annotation: This report focuses on nine oral health innovations seeking to increase access to preventive oral health care in non-oral-health settings. Topics include a description of program settings (Head Start programs, schools, and senior center and other residential facilities) and strategies used in service delivery (referral systems, work force adaptations, funding mechanisms, consent procedures, telehealth technology, and incentives).

Contact: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 50 College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540-6614, Telephone: (877) 843-7953 Fax: Web Site: http://www.rwjf.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Access to health care, Adults, Head Start, Model programs, Oral health, Prevention services, Residential facilities, School age children, Schools, Service delivery systems, Work force, Young children

Greenwood LW. 1975. Whose children? An assessment of food service needs in children's residential institutions. Washington, DC: Children's Foundation, 110 pp.

Annotation: This report describes the results of an 18-month investigation of food service needs of children's residential institutions such as such as those for the abused, the handicapped, and the incarcerated, which are excluded from existing federal child nutrition programs. The survey covered nearly 400 institutions in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Topics include current food services at these institutions, the rise and fall of donated commodities, problems facing food services, and recommendation. The document includes separate reports on area projects in the District of Columbia and in Texas.

Keywords: Child nutrition, Children with special health care needs, Food service, Residential facilities

Decker HA. 1970. A system for planning and achieving comprehensive health care in residential institutions for the mentally retarded. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Department of Health Development, 98 pp.

Annotation: This monograph discusses a proposed system for health care in facilities for the mentally retarded, including evaluation of the resident's clinical status, establishing health and habilitation goals and a care plan for each resident, and implementing the resident care plan. It was supported in part by grant PC-1001(C1) of the Division of Research, Maternal and Child Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Keywords: Health services, Mental retardation, Planning, Residential facilities

Stars SS, Kuby AM. 1967. Number and kinds of children's residential institutions in the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Children's Bureau, 26 pp. ([Children's Bureau publicatiion])

Annotation: This document presents statistics about residential institutions for children in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, both public and private, for dependent and neglected children, for children with mental retardation, for delinquent children, children with physical disabilities, children with emotional disabilities, and for pregnant unmarried girls. It also discusses the development of a master list of children's residential institutions on which these statistics are partially based.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org

Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Residential facilities, Statistics
   

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