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More than 1,100 older nursing homes do not have sprinklers or have only partial systems. Read more here.
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Child Passenger Safety Week (Sept. 15 – 21, 2013) National Seat Check Saturday (Sept. 21, 2013) Car crashes are a leading cause of death for children 1 to 13 years old. Many times deaths and injuries can be prevented by proper use of car seats, boosters, and seat belts. Download this toolkit and use it
The proportion of US high school seniors who reported having a driver’s license declined from 85 percent to 73 percent during 1996–2010, according to a recent study published by CDC in the Journal of Safety Research. CDC examined results from the Monitoring the Future survey to estimate the proportion of high school seniors who possessed
As states wrap up legislative sessions and make decisions about whether to implement the Medicaid expansion included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this new analysis highlights the implications of these decisions for coverage, state finances and providers. As of July 2013, 24 states were moving forward with the Medicaid expansion, 21 states were not
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Scholarships dedicated to students with neurologic injuries and diseases are rare and difficult to find. Since, 2009, the Terrill Foundation has provided qualifying high school seniors throughout the 50 states whose lives have been changed by neurologic disease and brain injury have received assistance to further their educational goals at universities and technical schools. This
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association More kids suffer from traumatic brain injury than ever before. Half a million children get medial treatment for TBI each year. Did you know that US emergency departments treat more than 170,000 sports- and recreation-related TBIs, including concussions, in children and teens, each year? Did you know that children between 10 and
A recent MMWR report highlights the problem of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States. It summarizes how public health efforts can reduce the incidence of severe TBI and mitigate their short- and long-term consequences through primary prevention, early management, and comprehensive approaches to rehabilitation and community reintegration for TBI survivors. In addition,