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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Sinai Hospital of Detroit

for rehabilitation on Far-
mington Rd. at Maple.
Sinai Executive Vice
President Irving Shapiro told
The Jewish News that the
holding company will allow the
hospital to provide profit-
making services while main-
taining its non-profit status.
These services may include
home health care and other
joint ventures with Sinai doc-
tors.
"The key word is flexibility,"
Shapiro said. "Profits will help
the hospital, but the hospital
will still remain the largest
source of income among the
holding company resources.
Nothing will stand as strong or
as important as the hospital it-
self. This is an extension of
existing services, not creation
of new services, and we will
impose the same standards of
quality and care."
Sinai is already pursuing the
establishment of Rehab Plus —
an extension of its strong re-
habilitation programs — in
conjunction with Wyandotte,
Botsford and Cottage hospi-
tals.
The hospital plans to con-
tinue serving the Jewish and
general communities as it has
in the past. Twenty-eight per-
cent — 150 - 175 in-patients
daily — of the hospital's
patient load is Jewish, Shapiro
said. "It has never been more
than 30 percent — since the
hospital opened." The hospital
has grown from 250 beds in the
1950s, when it opened, to 600
beds now, but like other hospi-
tals throughout the country
has been experiencing fewer
filled beds because of re-
ductions in government and
private insurance plans and
competition from group prac-
tices.
Shapiro said the Jewish
community will not support
Sinai just because it is a Jewish
hospital. "Convenience, insur-
ance, physician selection,
geography and other factors all
play a role in selection of a hos-
pital," Shapiro said. "We have
to earn respect because of the
quality of our services and the
content of our programs,

rather than just because we are
a Jewish institution." He said
the area's Catholic hospitals
are'facing the same situation.
"It was the view histori-
cally," he said, "that Jewish
physicians could not practice
freely. But that is not true to-
day." Sinai continues to train a
large number of Jewish doctors
in its intern and residency pro-
grams, and "90 percent of our
(staff) physicians are Jewish.
But the opportunity for a place
where Jews can practice —
that is different today than it
was" when the hospital was
founded.
Shapiro believes most
Jewish Detroiters view Sinai
Hospital in the same way they
view the State of Israel: "It's
not my daily concern, but I still
want it to be there."
Ernie White, a Southfield
resident who is active on the
Comprehensive Health Plan-
ning Council of Southeastern
Michigan's sub-area council
for Oakland County, expressed
concern to The Jewish News
that Sinai's changing
structure would reduce the
Jewish community's control
over the hospital. White con-
curred, however, with Shap-
iro's assessment that Sinai
must make the change to a
holding company "which will
allow them to do the things
that need to be done in the
medical field."
Shapiro stressed that Sinai
will always remain a Jewish
communal entity serving the
broader community. He
pointed to the hospital's kosher
kitchen, Jewish chaplaincy
program and strong ties to
serving clients of Detroit's
Jewish agencies.
As for community control,
the hospital's 40-member
board will continue to serve as
before, but will answer to the
smaller Sinai Health Services
board, made up of current
Sinai board members with
guaranteed seats for the
president and executive vice
president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation. The SHS
board, which has been operat-
ing since last October, includes

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