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Article: County shift to outpatient care spurs hope, concern. (Los Angeles County Dept. of Health Services)(Health Care: Private Intervention)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 26, 1997
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Two years ago this month, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services was a miserable place to be.
A $1.2 billion projected budget shortfall - about half of it stemming from the Department of Health Services - had the county in a panic.
The Board of Supervisors recommended closing County-USC Medical Center, 5,000 proposed layoffs at public health facilities spawned angry street demonstrations, and DHS Director Robert Gates was forced out of office by the supervisors, who had lost confidence in his abilities.
What a difference two years can make.
Thanks to a federal bailout, and under the direction of Gates' successor as DHS director, Mark Finucane, the county is ...