"Places for AIDS Patients Are Still Scarce"

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"Places for AIDS Patients Are Still Scarce"

New York Times (12/17/89), P. E6
Lambert, Bruce

Abstract: Nursing homes, hospices, group residences, apartments, home-care attendants, and adult day-care centers would cost less and be more comfortable for AIDS patients in between bouts of illness. However, efforts to free beds and shift AIDS patients to these types of care are encountering many obstacles and delays. Alternative care for AIDS patients would relieve the hospital bed shortage, but regulatory procedures, discrimination, lack of funds, and politics often block incipient housing programs. Commenting on what progress has been made toward creating alternative care options, Nicholas A. Rango, director of the New York health department's AIDS Institute, says, "We are moving too slow." Bruce C. Vladeck, president of the United Hospital Fund, said, "The progress is glacial. If we had 20 years instead of five, we'd be in great shape. But the epidemic is growing faster than the services, so we're falling further and further behind."

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