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- Snatched baby, siblings remain in foster care - Nashville Tennessean
- The New Solution to Eldercare for 30 Million Baby Boomers: Care ... - PR Newswire
- Kidnapped Tenn. Baby's Case Takes Strange Turn - CBS 11 News
- Protect your baby against swine flu by getting vaccinated, CDC says - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
- Report: 13 million babies worldwide born premature - The Guardian
| Snatched baby, siblings remain in foster care - Nashville Tennessean Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:54 PM PDT A decision to place a Nashville infant at the center of a kidnapping case as well as his three siblings into foster care was unrelated to the crime, an official indicated Sunday. The reasons remain murky for now, though they may come to light later this week when a Davidson County Juvenile Court judge hears about the matter. State Department of Children's Services spokesman Rob Johnson declined to elaborate on why Yair Carrillo-Gurrola is not back with his mother, Maria Gurrola, and family after a harrowing week where Gurrola was stabbed and baby Yair was kidnapped. An Alabama woman has been charged in the case and awaits extradition to Nashville. "Clearly, our caseworkers saw a set of circumstances that they thought in the best interest of the children that they might need to come into foster care," Johnson said. Yair has been in DCS care since his recovery Friday, and his siblings, 11, 9 and 3, have been in foster care since Saturday after a family meeting, Johnson said. The state does not place infants who have been kidnapped into foster care as a matter of procedure, he said. "This kidnapping is a very unusual thing," Johnson said. "It's certainly not because of the kidnapping that the children would necessarily come into state custody." Johnson did not divulge specifics of why DCS officials removed the children. "Sometimes having children come into state care is a way to help families," he said. Meanwhile, Tammy Renee Silas, 39, remained in police custody Sunday in the Morgan County, Ala., jail. The FBI alleges that Silas kidnapped baby Yair and took him back to her Ardmore, Ala., home. FBI agent Keith Moses would not say whether officials believe Silas acted alone. "The investigation is not complete at this time," Moses said. "Obviously, we've got the one individual in custody, and we've just got to flesh things out." Moses said Silas faces federal kidnapping charges because police say she took the baby across state lines. Gurrola was stabbed several times at her East Ridge Drive home by a woman who claimed to be an immigration agent, according to the warrant for Silas' arrest. Gurrola told police she heard the woman call someone on a cell phone and say in Spanish something to the effect of "The job is done." Police have not said who that person might be. Silas' boyfriend, Martin Rodriguez Guerrero, said in an interview Saturday that he believed his girlfriend had legally adopted the baby.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| The New Solution to Eldercare for 30 Million Baby Boomers: Care ... - PR Newswire Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:59 AM PDT NEW YORK, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- An aging mother falls and breaks her hip and is coming home from the hospital. . .A father with mild cognitive impairment begins to develop serious Alzheimer's disease and has to move to a nursing home. . .An adult child tries to help an aging parent in a distant state who lives alone and struggles to remain independent with the help of home health aides and community services. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-new-solution-to-eldercare-for-30-million-baby-boomers-care-support-of-america--trusted-guidance-as-your-parents-age-62733802.html Today, Care Support of America (CSA), the national family care manager service, introduces a new expanded Web resource and corporate identity geared to reach the 30 million baby boomer family caregivers around the country who are searching for practical solutions and support in caring for their aging parents. "Baby boomers are increasingly being consumed by caregiving responsibilities as their parents live longer, but not always well," says Dan Tobin, M.D., Care Support of America Founder and CEO. "We have an invaluable service, proven over years of clinical research, to help them." Care Support of America exists for family caregivers anytime, anywhere - when their parents are coming home from the hospital, when they are trying to make sense of doctors' treatments for advancing illness, when in-home services and equipment need to be arranged, or when insurance benefits and community services seem complex and unfamiliar. CSA provides registered nurses, specially trained as family care managers, who work over the phone and in person doing home safety assessments of parents' homes. CSA's nurses work with the patient's doctors and their hospitals and help family caregivers understand and evaluate treatment options, develop an individualized plan, and coordinate for family caregivers all medical and non-medical aspects of a parent's care - including home health aides, transportation, medication management, insurance questions, and more. Real-life Success Stories Care Support of America's method has helped thousands of families in 32 states and Canada, through partnerships with local home care services in more than 500 locations. Real-life Care Support of America success stories include:
"I know that as I tried to care for elderly and chronically ill parents, uncles, and cousins myself, I found the whole medical system incredibly complex - and I'm an insider," says Joseph F. O'Donnell, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Senior Advising Dean and Director of Community Programs at Dartmouth Medical School, and Senior Scholar of the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth. "If I had a service like Care Support of America, I would have been able to sleep better with less worry about their care and more effectively utilize my time trying to coordinate their care in the disjointed system we have. Most important, I feel they would have been able to receive better care." Extend Aging at Home, Improve Outcomes Care Support of America's service was developed through years of clinical research by Dr. Tobin at Kaiser Permanente, Catholic Healthcare Hospitals nationwide, selected Medicare demonstrations, and other large group healthcare systems and HMOs. In independent peer-review studies, care coordination and CSA's approach in particular have been shown to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction, extend aging at home, and reduce time in nursing homes. Most Care Support of America clients, 80%, say that they get the help they need after only four hours of service, according to client surveys. New Web Resource; New Identity Geared to Reach 30 Million Care Support of America's new Website (www.caresupportofamerica.com), which launches today, includes expanded information, tools, and checklists for family members coping with eldercare crises and coordinating care. The new Care Support of America identity and "Trusted Guidance as Your Parents Age(TM)" tagline reflect CSA's mission and nationwide scope. A new logo of stylized stars symbolizes the changing relationship of adult children becoming caregivers for their parents. The logo and Care Support of America's redesigned and enhanced Website were developed by leading global branding consultancy Siegel+Gale. "As baby boomers, we're as hard-wired to take care of our parents as our parents are hard-wired to take care of us," Dr. Tobin says. "Our tools and methods solve problems and also help navigate the sensitive - and changing - relationship between an aging parent and an adult child. We help our clients manage the stress and leave room for them to spend meaningful quality time with their aging parents." About Dan Tobin, M.D. Dan Tobin, M.D. is Founder and CEO of Care Support of America, a national family care manager service. He is an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry (health psychology) at Dartmouth Medical School and the author of books and articles on eldercare issues and positive solutions to family caregiving problems. Dr. Tobin's blog, The Caregiver, appears on the Psychology Today Website at http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-caregiver. About Care Support of America Care Support of America (http://www.caresupportofamerica.com) is an independent family care manager service that helps identify and solve family caregiving problems to provide trusted guidance as your parents age, wherever you and your parents live. Care Support of America has partnerships with home care providers in 500 locations and has provided family care manager services in 32 states and Canada. If you would like to speak with Dr. Tobin, please contact Davia Temin or Christine Summerson of Temin and Company at 212-588-8788 or news@teminandco.com. Available Topic Expert: For information on the listed expert, click appropriate link. Dan Tobin, M.D. http://profnet.prnewswire.com/Subscriber/ExpertProfile.aspx?ei=88229 SOURCE Care Support of America Website: http://www.caresupportofamerica.com  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Kidnapped Tenn. Baby's Case Takes Strange Turn - CBS 11 News Posted: 05 Oct 2009 12:49 PM PDT Kidnapped Tenn. Baby's Case Takes Strange TurnMaria Gurrolla Briefly Reunited With Week-Old Baby Before State Takes All Kids Into Custody
Among the questions still unanswered are whether a woman who posed as an immigration agent and stabbed the baby's mother was working alone and why state child welfare workers took the baby and three siblings into custody shortly after the family was reunited. Child welfare officials would say only that Maria Gurrolla's children were placed in foster care for "safety" reasons. A juvenile court hearing will be held in the next several days. Meanwhile, investigators who had been focused on finding Yair are working to piece together exactly what happened and who was involved, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said. Tammy Renee Silas, 39, of Ardmore, Ala., was charged with kidnapping and remained in federal custody Monday, two days after police said they found Yair at her home about 80 miles south of Nashville near the Tennessee line. A car that police said she rented was seen on a surveillance video following Gurrolla before the attack, and the car rental information led police to her home. There was no indication Gurrolla knew her attacker, and officials have said she and her baby were targeted when she visited a state office about receiving assistance under the Women, Infants and Children food program. Silas has not been charged in the brutal attack on Gurrolla, who was choked and stabbed several times, including in the neck and chest. Her cell phone was taken, forcing her to run to a neighbor for help. When she returned, the baby was gone. Law enforcement would not say whether more charges would be filed, citing the ongoing investigation. Gurrolla, 30, told investigators she had never seen the woman who stabbed her. She said she heard the attacker use her phone to call someone and say in Spanish, "The job is done" and that the mother "was dying." Helm declined to talk about whether authorities suspect someone else was involved. Police have not released a motive, but Silas' live-in boyfriend, Martin Rodriguez, told The Associated Press that she said she could not have children and wanted to adopt a child from a relative who was going to jail. She told him she was going to El Paso, Texas, to get the child, and he said she had a newborn with her when he picked her up from the Huntsville, Ala., airport Tuesday. Federal court records do not list an attorney and a court appearance has not been scheduled for Silas. Department of Children's Services spokesman Rob Johnson declined to talk specifically about the Gurrolla case but said taking children into custody after a kidnapping is not necessarily standard procedure. He said the caseworkers saw something in this situation that made them concerned enough that they felt the safest thing to do was find a foster home for the children. He declined to say what caseworkers were concerned about or whether complaints had been filed against the family. He said most of the time when DCS takes children, they are eventually returned and the agency always explains to the family what they can do to regain custody. "DCS is acting with an abundance of caution," he said. (© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Protect your baby against swine flu by getting vaccinated, CDC says - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Posted: 05 Oct 2009 01:04 PM PDT Swine flu Q&A Babies can't get vaccinated for H1N1 virus, so parents and siblings should This is one in a series of Q&As about swine flu. You can send us questions at www.sunsentinel.com/swineflu. We cannot reply to all but will answer as many as possible. How do I protect my new baby from swine flu? Newborns have incomplete immune systems, putting them at higher risk for H1N1 flu virus. Babies under age 6 months cannot get flu vaccine, so the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says parents and siblings living with infants should get vaccinated. Caregivers of those babies are first in line for swine flu vaccine, as are children up to age 4. If you get sick, try to stay away from the baby. Have a healthy person take over care duties. If you can't, consider wearing a surgical mask when in close contact with the baby. A blanket between mother and baby can block the virus. And of course, wash hands and keep them away from the mouth, eyes and nose. Mothers should keep breast-feeding even if they get sick. Mother's milk is a baby's best food, filled with antibodies that can fight infections (unclear if it fights swine flu). The virus does not travel in mother's milk and it's OK to take flu medicine while nursing. If sick, express the milk and have others do the feeding. For more, visit the CDC at www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu or call 800-232-4636, or the state Department of Health at www.myflusafety.com or 877-352-3581. Bob LaMendola Copyright © 2009, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Report: 13 million babies worldwide born premature - The Guardian Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:33 AM PDT LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â€" They call it kangaroo care: A premature baby nestles skin-to-skin against mom's bare, warm chest. In Malawi, mothers' bodies take the place of too-pricey incubators to keep these fragile newborns alive. Nearly one in 10 of the world's babies is born premature, and about 1 million infants die each year as a result, says a startling first attempt to measure a toll that in much of the world is hidden. It's a problem concentrated in poor countries, with the vast majority of the nearly 13 million preemies born each year in Africa and Asia, according to the report released Sunday by the March of Dimes. But take a closer look at the proportion of all babies born too early. Those rates are highest in Africa, but followed closely by North America, concludes the first part of a collaboration with the World Health Organization to tackle the growing problem. How? "That's the 13 million-baby question," said March of Dimes epidemiologist Christopher Howson, who headed the project being debated this week at a child health meeting in India. Different factors fuel prematurity in rich countries and poor ones. Wealthy nations such as the United States have sophisticated neonatal intensive care units for the tiniest, youngest preemies. That produces headlines about miracle babies and leads to a false sense that modern medicine conquers prematurity â€" without acknowledging lifelong problems including cerebral palsy, blindness and learning disabilities that often plague survivors. Scientists don't even know all the triggers for preterm birth or how to stop early labor once it starts, one reason that the report urges major new research. Nor does much of the world even track how many babies are born too soon, why or what happens to them. "These are conservative estimates," Howson said. "As shocking as this toll is, that toll will only rise" as next year the WHO finishes a more in-depth country-by-country count. Yet even in very poor countries, there are steps to improve preemies' survival if only more mothers knew, said Dr. Joy Lawn, a pediatrician-turned-policy director for Save the Children who is based in South Africa. "Even in educated families, there's a sense of fatalism if a baby is born preterm. There's no expectation they can do anything," Lawn said. "With pretty simple solutions, these deaths could be halved, but it doesn't seem to be a priority." She points to Malawi, where traditionally new mothers have tied babies to their backs as they go about their day. Today, mothers of preemies are taught to tie them in front, under their clothes, kangaroo care-style, she said. The skin-to-skin contact keeps the infants' body temperature more stable, a key to survival, and they can nurse at will, promoting weight gain. Now Uganda is starting to teach kangaroo care. Babies born before completion of the 37th week of pregnancy are premature. The March of Dimes report found a small fraction in the U.S. are born before 32 weeks, the very early preemies who face the greatest risk of death and lifelong health problems. But even being born a few weeks early can lead to breathing problems, jaundice and learning or behavioral delays. Among the risk factors: â€"Lack of prenatal care to be sure the mother-to-be is adequately nourished and getting proper care for pregnancy-harming conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure or infections. â€"Smoking and alcohol use. â€"Pregnancy before age 16 and after 35, or pregnancies spaced too closely, less than two years apart. â€"Carrying twins or more. â€"In wealthy nations, early elective inductions and cesarean sections. Sunday's report is believed the first region-by-region estimate of prematurity, but it undercounts the problem by examining only singleton births to mostly healthy women, Howson said. As a result, it estimates 480,000 preemies are born in the U.S. and Canada each year when more precise U.S. government figures put that total at more than half a million in this country alone. Whatever the precise number, the point is to increase research into the problem and note the simple steps to lessen preventable risks today, Howson said. "What leads to a healthy outcome or adverse outcome are factors that begin far before that third trimester," he said, stressing care for infections and chronic conditions, better diet and family planning so the mom-to-be is healthier before she conceives. "We as an international community must think more upstream." --- On the Net: March of Dimes: http://www.marchofdimes.com/ World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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