Hospitals and school districts: creating a partnership for child protection services.
This article reports the initiation of a joint hospital-school district child protection committee in an urban setting of socio-economic blight. The committee provided a structure for consultation about troubling, complex situations of school children at high risk for physical and sexual abuse and medical neglect.
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Department of Work Services, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029.
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