HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 11291988 - 1.39 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS -039
FROM: Mark Finucane Contra
Director of Health Services Costa
DATE: October 28, 1988 County
SUBJECT: California Home Care Week
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I'. RECOMMENDED ACTION
Designate November 27, 1988, through December 3, 1988, as California
Home Care Week.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT
III. BACKGROUND
A. Organized home health care services to the elderly and disabled
have existed in this::country since the last quarter of the
eighteenth century.
B. Home care is recognized as an effective and economical alternative
to unnecessary institutionalization.
C. Caring for the ill and disabled in their homes emphasizes the
dignity and independence of the individual receiving these services.
D. Since the enactment of the Medicare program, including skilled
nursing services, physical therapy, speech therapy, social services,
occupational therapy andIbme health aide services, the number of
home health agencies providing these services has increased from
less than five hundred to more than six thousand.
E. Many private and charitable organizations provide these and similar
services to millions of patients each year, thus preventing, post-
poning and limiting the need for institutionalization.
IV. FUTURE
Home health care is viewed as the health care trend of the future
because of the anticipated needs of a rapidly aging population and
because of ,its cost containment features.
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CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; YES SIGNATURE:
_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE_
APPROVE __ OTHER
SIGNATURE S : p7 t Y n
ACTION OF BOARD ON NoyeIl'f]P99 19182 APPROVED AS' RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
x_ UNANIMOUS (ABSENT _ ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES:_ AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: _ OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC,. Cot:nty Administrator ATTESTED November 29, 19.88
Health Services Director PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Assistant Heslth Services Director/Public Health SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Director of Public Health Nursing
BY DEPUTY
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