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Article: Patients say private clinics giving better treatment.(Health Care: Private Intervention)(Interview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 26, 1997
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Shortly after a miscarriage a few months ago, Silenia Fernandez was surprised by a phone call from her doctor at the Burke Health Center in Santa Monica.
It was nothing more than a follow-up call to see how she was doing after the traumatic experience. But to Fernandez, the show of concern was appreciated - and a sign that the clinic was under new management.
The Burke Health Center is one of eight Los Angeles County health clinics that were taken over by private, non-profit organizations as part of a plan to ease the county's 1995 health budget crisis.
"The doctors give us more attention now, and a phone call like that wouldn't have come a couple years ago," said ...