Brewer questions social worker staffing and discharge planning compliance
Brewer cites a compliance report showing social worker staffing at 90% and asks about recruitment and discharge planning. Epstein says CHS has made recruitment and retention efforts and has only one vacancy in that area, though pretrial detention makes discharge planning difficult.
In terms of Brad H., I know that the most recent compliance report noted that CHS hired three more social workers, up to 90%.
So have you had any more social workers hired?
Do you have any sense of recruitment?
Because the issue for me is the discharge plan staff categories.
It should be 100%.
I guess I'm concerned.
I'm still concerned about those that are leaving having enough support.
And I guess you've never quite been in compliance with this discharge planning.
Can you bring us up to date on staffing, discharge planning, et cetera?
Yeah, so we've made a lot of efforts towards recruitment and retention of social workers.
We know the quality of our discharge planning service is dependent upon those staff.
Our vacancy rate, I'd have to double check, but I believe we only have one posting, I think, at the moment.
So we are very close to full staffing.
Again, much of the challenge is that most of our patients are pretrial detainees, and so we don't have an expected discharge date, which really makes planning and being able to put together a solid plan extremely difficult.
And I apologize.
What was the other part of your question?
No, well, you mostly did.
I guess the issue, that's enough to answer.