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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
3524622
Jewish Hospitals
Continued from preceding page
conduct research into Tay-
Sachs disease and other pre-
dominantly Jewish diseases.
Jewish hospitals, goes an-
other, give Jews a single, force-
ful Jewish voice in the councils
of the larger community.
Jewish hospitals enhance
the esteem of the Jewish com-
munity in the eyes of Gentiles
and, in the words of one hospi-
tal president, declare that
"Jews are sophisticated, that
they do things well, that they
are well-meaning, that they
don't have horns." Says a sec-
ond hospital president: "They
are the biggest bulwark
against anti-Semitism."
Jewish hospitals offer Jews
who want it, and can find it
nowhere else, a warm, friendly
ambience. B. Stanley Cohen,
acting president at Sinai of
Baltimore, tells the story of the
Jew transferred at his own re-
quest from a non-Jewish hospi-
tal to a Jewish one. Why? he
was asked on his arrival.
Wasn't his room at the other
hospital acceptable? "Can't
complain," replied the patient.
How about the doctors? "Can't
complain. And the food? "Can't
complain." Then why had he
asked to be transferred? "Here
I can complain."
Jewish hospitals, another
argument goes, offer observant
Jews the only setting in which
they can comfortably satisfy
religious requirements, like
kosher food and Sabbath ob-
servance.
Sinai Sentiments
An informal survey of
Jewish News readers and
waiting room patients re-
vealed that Sinai Hospital
still has a loyal following,
both among its neighbors
and among Jews who have
long since moved far from
the hospital.
Johnnie Ingram views
Sinai — located on Outer
Drive, east of Greenfield, in
Detroit — as a neighbor-
hood, not a Jewish, hospital,
"because I live around
here."
Most said they come to
Sinai because that is where
their doctor is affiliated,
even when another hospital
is more convenient. "We're
across the street from Pro-
vidence Hospital," says
Karin Clancy, "but we
wouldn't change hospitals
and we certainly wouldn't
change doctors for any-
thing."
"Our first child was deliv-
ered at Providence," ex-
plains Lin Nash, "our sec-
ond, here. The treatment
was unbelievable. I got to
watch the basketball game
while my daughter was
born."
Non-Jewish patients
seem unperturbed by
Sinai's Jewish character.
Says Gail Wesson, a former
neighbor of the hospital:
"It's not Jewish, white,
black, none of that."
As Jews have moved de-
eper and deeper into the
suburbs, they seem to have
left Sinai behind. "I've been
there in the past," says
Louis Berlin of West Bloom-
field, "But where I live, it's
kind of far to go in an emer-
gency."
Among Jews who no
longer use Sinai, there is a
gut feeling that a Jewish
hospital should exist.
"Jewish doctors inspire con-
fidence," they say, although
barriers have long since
dropped and Jewish doctors
can be found in all area hos-
pitals. "Sinai is a good place
for the religious to go to,
since they can get kosher
food there," although both
Southfield's Providence and
Royal Oak's Beaumont hos-
pitals serve kosher food to
patients who request it.
Providence has a rabbi on
its staff and rabbis visit
Beaumont daily.
Not all Jews have left the
Sinai fold. "I think so much
of Sinai that I'm a volunteer
there," Shirley Goldin says
enthusiastically. "Even
though I don't live in that
area anymore, I still con-
sider it my hospital. I feel
very much at home there."
It is very nice at the much
closer Beaumont Hospital,
she says, "but it's not the
same atmosphere."
"A Jewish community of
our size owes something to
the non-Jewish commu-
nity," according to Emery
Klein, co-chairman of the
1987 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, who underwent
bypass surgery at Sinai in
1986. "Sinai offers medical
care to the entire population
and is a bridge between the
Jewish and non-Jewish
community. It's care based
on Jewish ethics and tradi-
tions. We live in a larger
community," he adds, "and
having a Jewish hospital is
an important bridge to the
community."
One non-Jew offered
some criticism, not of the
hospital, but of the commu-
nity that founded it. "One
thing that upsets me is that
the Jewish community
doesn't support the hospital
like they should," he said
flatly. "I think the Jewish
community has sort of for-
saken this hospital."
— D.H.