Findings Could Deliver Better Care, Reduced Costs, Shorter Waits PRINCETON, N.J., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the use of hospital emergency departments

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PHILADELPHIA _ Vowing that the starvation death of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly would not be in vain, Philadelphia Mayor Nutter yesterday suspended seven more workers at the Department of Human Services and said "no child will again face the same fate." Speaking with obvious emotion, Nutter repeatedly excoriated the city workers involved in Kelly's case, and he apologized to Philadelphians for City Hall's failure to save the girl's life.

By Mary Schenk, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Jul. 31--URBANA -- Major cuts in state funding to local social services will likely result in overburdened hospital emergency rooms, crowded jails and more people going to prison, local service providers contend.

By John Sullivan and Craig R. McCoy, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jul. 31--Two Philadelphia social workers were charged yesterday with being complicit in the death of Danieal Kelly, a 14-year-old girl who starved to death in 2006, her body eaten by bed sores to the bone.