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September 24, 2007

For Love or Money: The Rise of For-Profit Social Services

For better or worse, for-profit social-service providers—in mental health, welfare, and medical care—are driving fundamental change in an industry previously driven largely by humanitarian concerns. For-profit managers claim a bottom line of better services for more people through for-profit/not-for-profit partnerships that employ economies of scale and money-saving new technology. Not-for-profit providers worry about technology, standards, and economics diminishing the hands-on care that keeps clients from failing or falling through bureaucratic cracks.

Posted by Gary Holden at September 24, 2007 8:35 AM