{"id":117522,"date":"2016-09-29T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=117522"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:45:57","slug":"ssw-study-pediatric-emergency-department-use-behavioral-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/09\/ssw-study-pediatric-emergency-department-use-behavioral-health-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"SSW to Study Pediatric Emergency Department Use for Behavioral Health Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107587\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107587 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/michael-fendrich-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Fendrich\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Michael Fendrich<br \/>Associate Dean for Research and<br \/>Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-117523 size-full img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Kurz, PhD\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Brenda-Kurz-300-128x128.jpg 128w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Kurz, PhD <br \/> Associate Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Children\u2019s Fund of Connecticut (CFC) awarded a $57,500 grant to the UConn School of Social Work to evaluate the impact of the\u00a0Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services (EMPS) program on emergency department utilization (ED) among youth with behavioral health concerns. The research team, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/michael-fendrich-phd\/\">Michael Fendrich, PhD<\/a> (Associate Dean for Research), will use administrative data from EMPS and Medicaid claims to compare EMPS clients to a matched comparison group on ED utilization. <a href=\"http:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/brenda-kurz-ph-d\/\">Brenda Kurz, PhD<\/a> is the co-investigator. They will also conduct focus groups with EMPS providers to supplement the quantitative findings and to further inform system and practice changes.The project will identify risk factors influencing subsequent ED use among those who receive EMPS services.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chdi.org\/files\/3414\/7516\/0492\/EMPS_grant_News_Release_9-29-16.pdf\">http:\/\/www.chdi.org\/files\/3414\/7516\/0492\/EMPS_grant_News_Release_9-29-16.pdf\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Children\u2019s Fund of Connecticut (CFC) awarded a $57,500 grant to the UConn School of Social Work to evaluate the impact of the\u00a0Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services (EMPS) program on emergency department utilization (ED) among youth with behavioral health concerns. The research team, led by Michael Fendrich, PhD (Associate Dean for Research), will use administrative data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":107587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-117522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 21:31:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/107587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117522"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=117522"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=117522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}