Community Oriented Primary Care New Directions for Health Services Delivery (1983) / Chapter Skim
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Denver Health and Hospitals Experience
Denver Health and Hospitals Experience
Pages 230-233
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Thus, with limited growth and a limited tax base, the city and county finds itself increasingly at the mercy of the federal and state policies. Nowhere is this more true than in the area of health services delivery.
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An extensive development of ambulatory services has enabled Denver lo substantially reduce the infant mortality rate, in addition to reducing total costs by minimizing our patients' hospital utilization. Thus, the overall goal is to help people to live increasingly independent lives and to safeguard the public's health through the provision of effective and efficient health services.
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This combined with the fact that the Denver charter wisely prohibits deficit spending forced the mayor and the city tO give attention to the growing problem of mandated services, costs and revenues, and medical priorities for services. Through a study designed to look into these matters, a $10 million reduction from the projected 1982 budget of S92 million was found to be unavoidable, and the areas for service reduction were established.
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It should be clear that the decisions being made are, in fact, rationing health services, and the pattern of financing these services will have significant influence on public protection, public health, and personal health and in general the degree to which Denver can provide .
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