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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Contra
FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director
Costa
n. s
County
DATE: November 8, 1990 °srq---Ung
SUBJECT: California Home Care Week
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I . RECOMMENDED ACTION
Designate November 25, 1990 through December 1, 1990 as California
Home Care Week.
II . REASON FOR RECOMMENDATION
A. Organized home health care services to the elderly and
disabled have existed in this county 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, and home 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, postponing and limiting the need for
institutionalization.
F. 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 .
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON November 27, 1990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUSABSENT
( ) 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: County Administrator ATTESTED
November 27, .1990
Health Services Director PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Assistant Health Services Director- SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Public Health
Director of Public Health Nursing o
M382 (10/88)
BY DEPUTY