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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are also emergency shelters and emergency foster parents for situations like this. The kids are not being placed in foster care-they are being cared for in a vetted environment until other something is worked out. A lot of the time they’re probably sitting around in the hospital for hours until social services figures out what’s happening. [/quote]
Poster with partner who works in an ED. This is exactly what happens.

Police/EMS first check phone for emergency contact and/or start calling numbers, assuming the phone is unlocked.

If not, police hand off to hospital social worker, simultaneously hospital social worker checks parents past medical files/insurance company for emergency contact while working with police to establish next of kin. If that can’t be determined/reached, the child is then temporarily placed with an emergency foster care family until family/friend can be found, but then it becomes more difficult to move the child back to family.

They are NOT sitting around the hospital for hours and hours (a couple, sure, but that’s only in the event *someone* can be reached and is coming for the child.) [/quote]

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