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FaCES: An Innovative Program to Provide Health Evaluation Services to Recently Placed Foster Children (Poster Session 7)
FaCES: An Innovative Program to Provide Health
Evaluation Services to Recently Placed Foster Children
(Poster Session 7)
The Foster Children Evaluation Services (FaCES) Clinic opened at UMass Memorial Health Care in the fall of 2003 in response to the alarming statistics that only 11 percent of foster children statewide were receiving the mandated 7-day health screens or the 30-day comprehensive medical evaluation. This poster session summarizes the timelines from the initial idea to the opening of FaCES; the experience thus far in terms of children seen, new medical/psychiatric developmental problems identified, and rate of abnormal laboratory findings; and the evaluation to date. The latter covers compliance with 7- and 30-day medical examination and 6-month dental screening guidelines, as well as success in obtaining all pertinent past medical records.
Linda Sagor, M.D., M.P.H.
UMass Memorial Healthcare
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
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