title: Medical foster family care: a cost-effective solution to a community problem.
abstract: In response to the special needs of a small number of abused and neglected children who were being cared for by unnecessary extended hospitalization, a medical foster family care program was established, at much lower cost, to provide the children with a home environment and assist their parents so that family reunification was possible.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012944:Social Support