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Article: County led in home care, but program remains small. (Los Angeles County, California)(Health Care Special Report: House Calls)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 10, 1997
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Los Angeles County government, often criticized for being behind the curve in health care trends, was way ahead of private industry when it comes to home health care - it first started offering such services nearly 40 years ago.
But even though the county's Home Care Services program was discovered in the late '50s to be an effective way of avoiding costly hospitalization, the program currently is so small that many people in the home care industry - as well as in county government - have never heard of it.
Officials within the county's Department of Health Services are in disagreement about the amount of home health care that should be provided. Some ...