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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down 2014 regulation that reduced Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments
On Monday, June 3, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that stated a 2014 regulation of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – that reduced DSH payments to hospitals servicing indigent patients – should be removed for failure to follow proper notice and comm...
/news-perspectives/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-2014-regulation-that-reduced-medicare-disproportionate-share-hospital-dsh-payments/Rethinking Confidentiality in Child Welfare Courtrooms
Confidentiality in juvenile and family courts is the focus of a two-part series by Public Consulting Group’s Judge James Payne, recently published by the Chronicle of Social Change. In the series, Judge Payne first explores the historical context of confidentiality in juvenile courts—a predilection ...
/news-perspectives/rethinking-confidentiality-in-child-welfare-courtrooms/Enjoying spring with PCG Cares in April
With the first signs of spring in the air, PCG Cares teams in Nashville, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Phoenix were busy getting involved in their communities both indoors and outdoors this April. Read on for a selection of our volunteer experiences for the month. With the first signs of spring in the ...
/news-perspectives/enjoying-spring-with-pcg-cares-in-april/Modernizing the citizen experience in child welfare
With the convergence of the Family First Prevention Services Act (Family First Act) and the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS) regulation changes, child welfare leadership are faced with the unprecedented opportunity to rethink the citizen experience. That’s according to a new b...
/news-perspectives/modernizing-the-citizen-experience-in-child-welfare/Best practices for employment specialists as published in Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
Employment specialists are professionals who support people with disabilities with finding and succeeding in work. Research shows that integrated employment (i.e. jobs held by people with the most significant disabilities in typical workplace settings where the majority of employees are not persons ...
/news-perspectives/best-practices-for-employment-specialists-as-published-in-journal-of-vocational-rehabilitation/Cult of Pedagogy media coverage: Broward County Public Schools takes equity work to the next level with EducatorEd course
Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in Florida, the sixth largest school district in the United States, serves nearly 300,000 students from widely diverse backgrounds that represent nearly 200 different languages and cultures. Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) in Florida, the sixth largest schoo...
/news-perspectives/cult-of-pedagogy-media-coverage-broward-county-public-schools-takes-equity-work-to-the-next-level-with-educatored-course/PCG Cares: Making an impact in March
Throughout March, PCG Cares teams across the U.S. supported various nonprofit organizations in the core industries we also serve as a firm: education, health, and human services. Thanks to everyone that came together to make these events a success! See below for this month’s round-up of volunteer ef...
/news-perspectives/pcg-cares-making-an-impact-in-march/Tips for navigating different CCWIS solutions
Many new solutions are being designed and implemented to satisfy the requirements of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS). From platforms, to Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, to Best-of-Breed, there are both some nuances a...
/news-perspectives/tips-for-navigating-different-ccwis-solutions/EducatorEd courses featured in media coverage on the benefits of online professional learning
PCG’s EducatorEd platform offers research-based, online professional learning for districts and K-12 educators. We are thrilled that two of our online courses offered through EducatorEd were recently featured in leading industry publications. PCG’s EducatorEd platform offers research-based, online p...
/news-perspectives/educatored-courses-featured-in-media-coverage-on-the-benefits-of-online-professional-learning/New white paper: Rethinking School Safety in the New Normal
In his decades of experience spanning many roles, PCG’s special education subject matter expert Will Gordillo has personally experienced some very tragic events on the job that unexpectedly escalated to a crisis-level, involving incidents of violence and threats initiated by students. While he was f...
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