title: Hospital's focus shifts to community services.
abstract: As one community hospital sought ways to reduce it costs, it discovered home care as a means to that end. The hospital used a consultant company to help it make the transition. It serves as a model for other hospitals and home care agencies to follow.
authors.affiliation: Select Data, Inc., Anaheim, CA, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burnett
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003153:Community Health Services; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation