"The deficit can be reduced"
Goings on about Hyannis
The Register, June 13, 1968
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Dateline: Cape Cod
By Evelyn Lawson
Harriet Hall, Director of Homemaker Service announces that through the help of the press and radio, contributions to the amount of $2,209 have come in with slightly more pledged.
This gets this community service over the Immediate hump.
To Mrs. Hall and her Home makers this money also expresses a welcome vote of confidence.
The yearly deficit of the service has been $12,000.
Mrs. Hall believes this year the deficit i can be reduced to $6,000.
How?
Contracts have been rewritten with the nursing services
to provide home health under medicare
at
the actual cost of the service
as opposed to
the under-cost compensation
that has been the rule so far.
Admission of the agency to the United Fund would be the answer to the smaller deficit, a small amount to ask for a service that has proven its extensive value.