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vocate reducing programs, the
number of people admitted, or
the quality of care.
"We've sweated over every
dime in the budget," Steinberg
said, "and we're at the point
where we can't chop expenses
anymore without affecting the
care. But we're not going to
shut down the Home. We're not
going to diminish care.
The problems of the Home
are not unique. The national
Council of Jewish Federations
is questioning whether Jewish
communities should remain in
the nursing home business.
"It's clear to me that we need
to arrive at a plan that permits
us to remain a skilled care nur-
sing home for the elderly," Dr.
Giles said. "It may be that we
limit the number of beds that
are currently filled. It may be
necessary to provide care for on-
ly those in need and let private
pay clients reside elsewhere. It
may mean contracting services
with other home providers. All
of these are options that must
be looked into."
In the interim for 1986-1987,
the United Jewish Charities
granted a special allocation of
$300,000 over and above the
$846,000 originally allocated
by the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion to the Jewish Home for the
Aged to help meet its $600,000
deficit. The home used another
$300,000 from its own endow-
ment funds to make up the
difference.
"By taking this approach, we
did not have to cut back on any
of the services the Home pro-
vides," Giles said. "We feel it's
important to be spending this
money now to give us the time
we need to arrive at a plan for
solving our problem."
Giles is convinced Detroit's
Jewish community will always
provide services to the aged
within the structure of the
Allied Jewish Campaign.
"Homes in other cities have
raised funds separately," he ex-
plained. "This has only
fragmented their community.
We don't want to lose the con-
cept of 'one for all' in the Cam-
paign so there are no plans for
a separate fundraising for the
Home. However, we are active-
ly seeking endowments for the
Home which will help to solve
some of its fiscal problems."
Giles also sees some pitfalls
in attempting to start for-profit
activities at the home.
"There's just too mujch going
on. Alan Funk has been ex-
ecutive director less than a year
and so much of his time is
devoted to the needs of the
residents and to the home's
financial problems. In fact, the
major pitfall to this income ap-
proach is the limitation of pro-
fessional time. Time given to
profit activities will take from
the quality care of the residents
which is the primary job of the
home."
One ray of hope noted by
Giles is nursing home in-
surance, a new product
available only in certain areas
of the country.
Long-term custodial care is
not covered by Medicare. To
qualify for Medicaid, which
does pay for non-skilled nursing
home care, the elderly must
have limited resources. With
average nursing home care
costs ranging from $20,000 to
$36,000 annually, many people
would benefit from nursing
home insurance. Some long-
term insurance packages are
already on the market. People
who have this kind of insurance
would be able to pay for their
own services at the Home.
Although the crisis centers
around the financial problems
of the Jewish Home for the Ag-
ed, Dr. Giles feels it goes beyond
the home.
"It is a community problem
and we've put together a task
force representing the com-
munity to attack it," Giles ex-
plained. "No institution stands
by itself; when a problem occurs
at any one institution, it
becomes a community problem.
In other words, if the problem
affects one group of people who
are Jewish, it deserves the con-
sideration of all Jews." ❑
Front page photograph: Ethel
Flanders in the garden room
at Borman Hall.
Execution
Postponed
Paris (JTA) — The execution
in Yugoslavia of convicted war
criminal Andrija Artukovic
has been postponed indefi-
nitely for reasons of poor
health, according to the official
Tanjug News Agency in Bel-
grade. It said a court in Zagreb,
which last year sentenced him
to death for crimes he commit-
ted in World Way II, decided to
postpone carrying out the sen-
tence. It now seems likely that
Artukovic will die a natural
death in prison, according to
legal sources in Yugoslavia.
Artukovic, 87, was extra-
dited from the United States
last year after more than 30
years, numerous legal proceed-
ings and two formal extradi-
tion requests. He had lived in
California since entering the
U.S. in 1948 through the use of
fraudulent documents, accord-
ing to the U.S. Justice De-
partment's Office of Special
Investigations.
He had been accused by the
Justice Department of the war-
time persecution or murder of
700,000 Serbians, 40,000 Gyp-
sies and 28,000 Jews while he
was interior minister of the
Nazi puppet state of Croatia.'
The mass killings and persecu-
tion were an official policy of
the Croatian "Ustasha" fascist
regime, set up in 1941 in col-
laboration with the Germans
and Italians.