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JEWISH NEWS 'T-SHIRT 20300 Civic Center Dr. Southfield, Mich. 480764138 NAME This offer is for new subscriptions only. Cur- rent subscribers may order the T-shirt for $4.75. Allow four weeks delivery. ADDRESS CITY (Circle One) (Circle One) L STATE ZIP 1 year: $26 2 years: $46 Out of State: $29 Enclosed $ ADULT EX. LO. ADULT LARGE ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL "This is pure speculation?" said JHA Administrator Alan Funk, "but we are studying our options?' These could in- clude closing or selling one facility — "probably Prentis Manor" with its 100 beds — cutting beds overall, and cut- ting programs and services. Funk said the JHA also would consider charging more for private pay patients, in- creasing the number of private pays from barely 25 percent of the. 418 JHA residents to 35 percent, and reducing the number of Medicaid patients. In January, officials reported that Jewish corn- munity funding for the JHA's Borman Hall in Detroit, Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield and Prentis Manor in Southfield would continue at the rate of $1.1 million per year. JHA had made some head- way in reducing the deficit, which has forced the JHA and Jewish Welfare Federation to kick in additional funds from the Allied Jewish Campaign and JHA endowments. But the governor's plans to reduce-the proposed 1988-89 Medicaid budget once again boosted the JHA's projected deficit for next year. JHA officials joined a lobby- ing effort in Lansing on Tues- day, organized by the for- profit and not-for-profit nurs- ing home organizations in Michigan. Administrators Funk and Marcia Mittelman, and board members Robert Steinberg, Maxine Canvasser and Dan Clark met with legislators to discuss the situation. Funk, JHA's executive vice president, said the state pro- posal "took us completely by surprise?' The Blanchard Administra- tion proposed a Medicaid cut which was supported by the House Appropriations Com- mittee, he said. "The irony of it all," said Funk, "is that we had really found some stability" through cutbacks and cost saving "until this hit." Another option, he said, is closing one floor at Borman Hall, reducing capacity by 60 beds. "If we have to cut beds, no one else is going to want the Medicaid patients either," said Funk. "Medicaid pa- tients will be forced into the worst facilities — this is going to affect everyone who is poor and old," including persons who use the Federtion Apart- ments, Jewish Family Service and other Jewish agencies. JHA has a waiting list of 40-50 persons and an addi- tional 200-300 families have made inquiries about their facilities. In addition, the federal government is mandating classroom and on-the-job training, which is expected to force up pay for workers who now start out earning $3.75 per hour. A requirement that registered nurses be on duty seven days per week will be an additional expense. State Senator R. Robert Geake (R-Northville), chair- man of the Senate Appropria- tions subcommittee on social services, said the legislature is facing a difficult assign- ment. The federal govern- ment reduced Michigan's Medicaid budget 1.5 percent, which was reflected in the governor's proposed budget. Geake said the State Department of Social Ser- vices budget from the House came to the Senate "$30 million over target and the Medicaid budget is under- funded by $45.5 million. So the subcommittee is going to have to find $75 million somewhere!' Geake said the Senate wants to finish its work on the budget by the end of the month, and send the ap- propriations bill to conference committee in June. "But we can't do this in a vacuum. In my opinion we have to give the nursing homes at least the same amount as last year?' Jewish Welfare Federation leaders have expressed deep concern about the continuing deficits at JHA. Martin Kraar, Federation executive vice president, was asked this week if the Jewish communi- ty could continue to make up the full deficit. "It's a serious problem?' Kraar said. "Federation has a continu- ing commitment to serving the elderly. We have to find a solution. This new deficit is a problem that has just hit us, and we'll have to assess all the options?' JHA President Daniel Clark said the agency has no commitment from Federation to "make up the Medicaid gap!' He added that the agen- cy is focusing on lobbying his week, "trying to get involved with a lot of different people who are involved in Lansing . . . The governor and the legislature are being very shortsighted if they think they can just abandon their parents!' Last night, JHA presnted its budget proposal for next year to Federation's Com- munity Services Division. Chairman Harvey Gordon said that the state budget pro- posal has presented the divi-