‘Stuck kids’ docket details challenges for DCFS wards in improper placements – Capitol News IL

“So, according to her testimony, hospitalization is $600 a day for the first month and $1,000 a day thereafter. In this case, DCFS paid the hospital $348,000 out of the Illinois taxpayer funds…not federal funds, to keep this kid locked up beyond the date of medical necessity,” Cook County Circuit Judge Patrick T. Murphy said. “You could have bought the Taj Mahal for the cost of this placement. This is bizarre!”

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