BETHLEHEM--A local 4th grader, hooked to medical machines and IV’s, undergoing pre-brain surgery screening was asked to take a New York State test from his hospital bed last week.
Joey Furlong is a 4th grader in the Bethlehem School District. He has life-threatening epilepsy and his seizures can only be stopped with medication so his parents are considering brain surgery. In order to get to that point though, Joey needs to go through a series of tests which is what he is doing right now at the Cohen Children’s Medical Center on Long Island.
“He is currently in the hospital where they are withdrawing his seizure medications and they have him hooked up to an EEG, so essentially his head is attached to the wall and he has an IV in his hand and he's wearing a pulse oximeter in case something happens with his oxygen levels,” says Tami Furlong, Joey’s mother. Basically, doctors have to wait until he has another seizure to monitor what is going on in his brain before they can do surgery.
“Thursday morning a woman walked into his room with a piece of paper that had his name on it and told my husband that she was a teacher from the New York City School District and that she was there to administer the 4th grade New York State test to my son,” Furlong tells CBS6. The family was shocked. They had already made arrangements with the Bethlehem School District for Joey to make up the exam if he was back in time, so someone asking him to take it from a hospital bed, never even crossed any of their minds.
a school has locked doors to 'protect' the students and the parents have to show ID that is scanned into the school's data base and then a background check is run,,,but the F'EN SYSTEM WALKS INTO THE STUDENTS HOSPITAL ROOM?????
WTF IS WRONG WITH US???
have we confused 'being serviced' with logic/common sense and the importance of the person????
FEEL SAFE AND CARED FOR????
public health and public schools
tagged and bagged from birth as a commodity for the system...SAD SAD SAD.....WAKE UP FOLKS!!!
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
there to administer the 4th grade New York State test to my son,
She is not thinking of "the whole" and she is only thinking of "herself." Shame on her for thinking it was anyone else son but "society's" as a whole. Parents no longer "own" their kids. The government does.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Just shows up in a child's hospital room. Wouldn't a rational human have contacted the parents away from the child and ASKED if they wanted a test administered? Do children EVER take exams in hospital beds? What am I saying? I guess I have a private notion that children belong to their parents. I need re-education or something.
HIPAA Facts: Parent and Minor Rights Provided by the Technical Assistance Support Center of the National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy Q&A by Susan Stefan, Center for Public Representation What right does a minor have under HIPAA to claim his or her own privilege to deny access to records under HIPAA? If the minor does not want parents or others to have access to his or her records, can the provider refuse to provide the records to the parents? The short answer to this question is that if the health care provider or facility concurs with the minor that the parents should not have access to his or her treatment records, the minor has a good chance of precluding parents from access to the records or granting access to others. However, if the facility or provider does not concur, the minorís chances of precluding such access are minimal. This is the short answer; the route to this answer is longer and more circuitous.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
New York Launches State Health Care Innovation Plan
State Health Department to Use $1 Million Federal Grant in Collaborative Effort to Transform Health Care Delivery Systems, Improve Quality of Care
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 19, 2013) – State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H. today announced New York State will develop a State Health Care Innovation Plan, a new, federally funded public initiative to transform the state's health care delivery system, increase efficiency, and improve the quality of care for New Yorkers.
In February, New York was awarded a $1 million Pre-Testing Award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) State Innovations Model (SIM) initiative to develop a State Healthcare Innovation Plan for improved health care through new payment and service delivery initiatives. The grant specifically promotes strategies to reduce costs and enhance the quality of care for New Yorkers enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
"As our health care system continues to evolve, it is critical that we continue to develop and implement innovative, cost-effective solutions to assure New Yorkers have access to high-quality care," Commissioner Shah said. "Through comprehensive Medicaid redesign efforts, New York has made great progress in improving quality, expanding access, and reducing health care costs. This award will build on this success by supporting the development a comprehensive plan to utilize health information technology to improve data access and care management tools."
To kick off the development of the State Healthcare Innovation Plan, the State Department of Health (DOH) will host an informational webinar for health care providers, insurers, community groups and other stakeholders from across the state on Thursday, April 25, 2013, from 10 to 11am. Rachel Block, deputy commissioner of DOH's Office of Health Information Technology Transformation, will provide an overview of the award and the next steps related to the development of the SIM Plan. Michael Bailit, president, Bailit Health Purchasing, will discuss the range of payment reform models that states may consider pursuing as they work to improve delivery systems. To register for the April 25 webinar, please visit: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/462070878. DOH will sponsor a series of meetings and information sessions as the SIM Plan process continues and will provide information about how stakeholders may participate.
Key components of the New York's Health Care Innovation Plan will include: enhanced payment models for patient centered medical homes; primary care and behavioral health integration; and management of care transitions. Each of these models has a strong evidence base and broad stakeholder support.
Additionally, this CMMI funding will support New York's initiatives to:
Promote regional quality improvement collaborative; Advance the use of electronic health records; Expand providers access to data and develop data-driven care management tools; and Create monitoring systems to collect and assess health, quality and cost indicators related to components of the state's comprehensive plan. Initial work on the State Health Care Innovation Plan includes quantifying the current health care system in the New York, including population demographics, health status, descriptions of major payers, and quality performance indicators. Analyses related to the implementation of new payment and service delivery models will also be conducted.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Government School pedagogues are maniacs. They teach nothing, they are not experts in any field except for presenting the state curriculum.
WoW! Glad I didn't go to a "Government School!" How about you Cicero? Did you attend a "Government School"?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Did you learn this in a "Government School" Senders???
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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