COMMUNITY

Michigan-IDF Adopts
Oldest Israeli Center

The Michigan Chapter:
Friends of the Israel Defense
Forces has adopted the Akko
Rest and Recreation Center
that was built in 1961 in
Akko (Acre).

Akko, the oldest R&R camp,
was the site of the British
prison used to detain and ex-
ecute many Israeli freedom
fighters prior to the War of
Independence.
The center, one of the
largest installations, houses
approximately 600 soldiers
from units on the Syrian and
Lebanese borders, but lacks
many modern facilities accor-
ding to Morton Feldman,

chairman of the Detroit-based
chapter.
Michigan-IDF objectives
will be to provide air condi-
tioning in the 700-seat
auditorium and the dining
hall; construct a cafeteria
which also will be used as a
meeting room, dance hall and
for recreation.
The estimated cost of the
Project Akko/Detroit is
$400,000. The work could be
completed in 1990 Feldman
said.
More than $45,000 has
been collected since the
Michigan chapter's inaugural
meeting in April, or 10 per-
cent of the five year goal.

The Jewish National Fund will hold its 17th annual auction on Sept. 17 at Temple Beth El. A "blue light"
auction will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by the live auction at 8:15 p.m. A 1990 Lumnia and a trip for two to
Israel are among the items that will be auctioned. Shown preparing for the event are, clockwise from left,
Norman Goldenberg, Donna Sklar, Joan Shapiro, Laurie Nosanchuk, Jimmy Love, Larry Sklar, Sheldon Roth
and Esther Goldenberg.

Sinai, Area Hospitals Reduce
Work Hours Of Residents

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MICHAEL WEISS

Jewish News Intern

A

rea hospitals, includ-
ing Sinai Hospital,
are reducing the
hours interns and residents
work, to comply with new na-
tionwide guidelines set by the
Accreditations Council of
Graduate-Medical Education.
The reduced hours are in
response to nationwide con-
cern over the fatigue caused
by working 100-plus-hour-
weeks and two-day shifts.
The hospitals have in-
stituted the guidelines in
various ways. Sinai hospital's
internal medicine residents
now work on a "night-float"
system, in which residents
work daily 12-hour shifts and
two 36-hour shifts a month,
for an average of 80 hours a
week.
At Henry Ford, internal
medicine interns are on call
only every fifth night, typical-
• ly for a 30-hour shift, for a
maximum of 80 hours a week.
The policy was instituted
in June 1988 in anticipa-
tion of the ACGME recom-
mendations.
According to Dr. John
Gienapp of the ACGME, the
new regulations were in-

stituted as a response to
legislation in New York
limiting interns' hours and
shift lengths.
"We began studying the
matter two years ago,"
Gienapp said. "We felt that it
would be better to limit our
hours ourselves than to let
the states make the judg-
ment."
The movement to lighten
interns' and residents' gruel-
ing schedules grew, in part,
out of the 1984 death of Lib-
by Zion, the 18-year-old
daughter of author and jour-
nalist Sidney Zion. Zion died
in a New York hospital while
under the care of residents
and interns working the late-
night shift, prompting
criticism of the 100-hour-
weeks and 36-hour shifts that
interns have been forced to
endure.
New regulations state that
interns should not be on call
more frequently than every
third night, and should have
at least one day each week
away from the hospital.
Further limits are set on
certain specialties; for exam-
ple, internal medicine interns
have an 80-hour-week limit,
and emergency medicine has
a 60-hour-week limit.
"The residents tend to like

it because they have much
more time to themselves,"
says Steven Arbit, president
of Sinai house staff. "And
fatigue is definitely decreas-
ed."
Steve Schechter, a second-
year neurology intern at
Henry Ford, is glad the new
rules have been established.
"It's a difficult job even when
you're awake. You wouldn't
want to fly in an airplane if
the pilot had been working
for 36 hours," he said. ❑

History Society
Elects Officers

The Jewish Historical
Society of Michigan has
elected officers for 1989-90.
Elected were president,
Adele W. Staller; vice
presidents, Harriet Siden and
Gilbert Borman; treasurer,
Benno Levi; corresponding
secretary, Gertrude Edgar;
recording secretary, Esther
Klein; and financial
secretary, Sarah Bell.
The following were elected
to the board of directors:
Sidney Bolkosky, Judy Can-
tor, Joel E. Jacob, Oscar
Schwartz, Robert E.
Steinberg, H. Saul Sugar and
Lee Waldbott.

The Taubers and the Hermelins.

Development Center
Dedicated In Israel

A $300,000 child develop-
ment center in Israel was
dedicated recently by several
Detroiters who have made the
project possible.
The Applebaum-Hermelin-
Tauber Child Development
Center, located in Detroit's
Project Renewal sister city of
Yavne, will give children up -to
age 6 enhanced academic and
social skills before entering
the school system.
Eleven Detroiters par-
ticipating in the United
Jewish Appeal Prime
Minister's Mission attended
the dedication, which was
highlighted by a program of
singing and dancing by the
children of Yavne.
David
the
Besides
Hermelins and Joel Taubers,
Detroiters at the program
were Michael Berke, Sam
Grand and daughter
Elizabeth (Betsy) Marcus,
Joseph and Suzanne Orley
and Seymour (Skip) and Carol

Roberts. Paul Borman, 1989
Allied Jewish Campaign
chairman with Joseph Orley,
was also on the Prime
Minister's Mission.
There will be a second
dedication when the Eugene
Applebaums are in Israel.
Each week, 30 children
receive speech and hearing

The center will
give children up to
age 6 enhanced
academic and
social skills.

therapy, 20 children receive
occupational therapy, and 8
youngsters receive art
therapy. Because many of the
children have several pro-
blems, they receive more than
one type of treatment.
The center also teaches day
care and kindergarten
teachers how to make and
utilize educational materials.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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