Medical Law

2nd out-of-state teen dropped at Omaha hospital (AP via Yahoo! News)

13 Oct 2008

A second teenager from outside Nebraska has been left at an Omaha hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, apparently after his parent flew to the city specifically to abandon him, state officials said Monday.

Washington Post Examines Mental Health Parity Law (Medical News Today)

13 Oct 2008

The Washington Post on Friday examined how mental health parity legislation, which was included in the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street firms that President Bush last week signed into law, is "a culmination of a decade of lobbying and negotiating among advocates for the mentally ill, the insurance industry, the business community ... and doctors' groups" (Jenkins, Washington Post, 10/10).

Michigan teen dropped off under Safe Haven law (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil)

13 Oct 2008

Todd Landry, director of the Division of Children and Family Services for the Department of Health and Human Services, said A 13-year-old Michigan boy was left at Creighton University Medical Center today under Nebraska's safe haven law.