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  • Title: Medical foster family care: a cost-effective solution to a community problem.
    Author: Davis AB, Foster PH, Whitworth JM.
    Journal: Child Welfare; 1984; 63(4):341-9. PubMed ID: 6430655.
    Abstract:
    In response to the special needs of a small number of abused and neglected children who were being cared for by unnecessary extended hospitalization, a medical foster family care program was established, at much lower cost, to provide the children with a home environment and assist their parents so that family reunification was possible.
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