title: The Rural Health Program of Southern Monterey County.
abstract: The Rural Health Project of Southern Monterey County is attempting to demonstrate that a private group of physicians with the collaboration of the County Medical Society can responsibly and efficiently conduct a program of providing comprehensive medical care to indigent patients. Within the purposes of P.L. 89-749, the Rural Health Project is experimenting with a new way of organizing indigent health care and at the same time is providing the basis for comprehensive health planning at the local level.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D008489:Medical Indigency; D006278:Medicare; D012041:Regional Medical Programs; D012423:Rural Health; D014481:United States; D014490:United States Office of Economic Opportunity