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me puot projects proviaeoi comprehensive nursing care to patients suitable and amenable to home care at less cost than would be possible in a hospital. Originally scheduled to terminate in June of last year, the programs con tinued in all but one of the six health districts. The original cutoff date was used by the State Health Department for evaluation of the program. The department found that Ae 3 1/2-year effort resulted in care for 1,265 patients, who received a total of 33,994 home visits. The majority of fatflents were under age 60. I the ^yjtoatipq. fihQyefl.. approximately 15,000 days of hospitalization and alike period of nursing home confinement were avoided through the pilot projects. The program will be extended throughout Virginia as fast as the needed personnel become available, the publication states. . Such services under medicare will “require the coopera tion of all the medical disciplines within a community,* the Bulletin says. *It is primarily the private physician’s program as there can be no home care for the patient unless the physician refers and submits a plan of treatment. . . .* Anyone wishing additional information or copies of the Virginia Health Bulletin may contact his local health department or write to the Virginia State Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
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