title: Referral-outreach program links community clinics and hospital.
abstract: In the San Diego area, a special program has established a linkage system between a major medical center and community clinics that provide primary care to persons in generally low-income, medically underserved neighborhoods. This system ensures continuity of care for the clinic patients through referrals to the medical center and follow-up back at the clinics and through provision of special services by the medical center's physicians onsite at the clinics.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D008489:Medical Indigency; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration