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Conclusions
- Alternate Care Sites are a last resort when the healthcare delivery system cannot meet patient care needs.
- Alternate Care Sites pose a difficult challenge.
- Creativity in meeting this need is necessary.
- It is important to capitalize on models that have already been developed.
- California is working with local government to better understand how the State can help.
Speaker's Notes:
- Alternate Care Sites are a last resort when the healthcare delivery system cannot meet patient care needs.
- Alternate Care Sites pose a difficult challenge—government is often given the jobs that cannot be resolved in the private sector.
- Creativity in meeting this need is required—there are a variety of approaches being taken at the local level including the use of shuttered hospitals, fair grounds, tents, and mobile field hospitals.
- It is important to capitalize on models that have already been developed such as the Rocky Mountain Regional Care Model—why reinvent the wheel?
- California has planned for additional technical assistance for local government but we are working with local government to better understand how the State can help.
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