title: Providing social work without insurance.
abstract: Home care agencies, particularly nonprofit ones, often face financial dilemmas when patients who do not qualify for insurance coverage desperately need social work services. One visiting nurse association found a way to provide social services to these patients through innovative funding sources.
authors.affiliation: All Care VNA of Greater Lynn, MA, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sherman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000379:methods; D005653:Fund Raising / Q000379:methods*; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012947:Social Work / Q000191:economics*