VNA of Los Angeles.
Reviewing the course of the reorganization, VNA-LA President Sharon Grigsby remarked, "Throughout this two-year process a number of lessons were strongly imprinted. The first was the confirmation that the agency was solidly committed to providing indigent care and to remaining a community voluntary nonprofit agency--recognizing that indigent care was costly, and that finding financial resources to cover it would continue to severely tax our abilities." In the end what tipped the balance, in the board's decision to reject the takeover bids, was the lack of assurance by the proprietary enterprises that they would honor this traditional VNA covenant. This commitment to indigent care was the foundation and the impulse behind the reorganization. The second lesson was that reorganization required a dedication shared by board members, staff, and even the community. Weathering the threat of takeover by proprietary interests melded board, staff, our sister VNAs in the Southern California Coalition, and our partner in indigent home health care, the United Way. Their active support and cooperation saw the agency through the hard times surrounding the acquisition proposals, and laid the groundwork for the VNA-LA successfully to emerge from the crisis into the new corporation structure.
D002140:California; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008489:Medical Indigency; D008962:Models, Theoretical