ABSTRACT
Under the stimulus of recent legislation—Public Law 89-749 and Public Law 89-239—efforts are under way throughout the nation to start planning for a more rational allocation of health resources. In a study of Jewish community agencies in Boston, Morris showed that, if agencies were jointly experiencing crises in financing or in manpower, there was a better potential for effective cooperative planning. Each administrator interviewed reported that coordination was a major problem in providing services for the chronically ill, yet other information obtained showed a probably better than average situation among the agencies in this community. The interviews presented an impression of a group of capable and cooperative health professionals, each giving generously of his own and his agency's time and energy to build and maintain coordinative relationships. The output of agency system, such as a particular service to certain clients, money, space, information, equipment, clients, legitimation, and support.
