Lisa Gartner

Acadia Healthcare and Universal Health Services, both juggernauts in psychiatric care, are not offering remote work to its non-medical employees, as most area hospitals have done.

State lawmakers in Perry County said that it was "irresponsible" to move juveniles in the justice system from a COVID-19 "hotbed" like Philadelphia to their less-affected area near Harrisburg.

Juvenile Law Center and other children's advocacy organizations say releasing youth is the best way to protect them from COVID-19 and to limit the spread of coronavirus.

Requests for virtual visits with doctors have exploded as patients seek to learn more about the coronavirus and to stay out of hospitals. With doctors on quarantine, there's no shortage of staff for telemedicine.

For weeks, hospitals have talked about how to provide adequate care even when the flood of patients exceeds the limits of their resources. Tough choices will have to be made.

“It’s taken them a little longer to figure out what’s going on, but it doesn’t mean they don’t like cars,” said Kevin Mazzucola, the show's executive director.

The governor is proposing extra funding to the Department of Human Services to improve abuse investigations and to make sure problems flagged at juvenile programs are addressed swiftly.

Working with The Pew Charitable Trusts, Pennsylvania officials will spend a year analyzing the juvenile-justice system, with the goal of making it safer.

The Youth Residential Placement Task Force released a report Tuesday saying that Philadelphia should create an independent children's ombudsman, and require residential programs to improve staffing, install video cameras and reduce or eliminate the use of hands-on restraints.

U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat from Delaware County, said she was inspired to propose protections for juveniles in residential facilities after reading an Inquirer investigation into abuse at the Glen Mills Schools.