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Description
Item #
$288.00
Trundle
7530
88.00
7518-46 Hutch
188.00
Desk
7514-3
188.00
Vanity
7507
148.00
3-Drawer Dresser
7500
3-Draw 24" Night Stand 138.00
7513
118.00
2-Draw Night Stand
7516
118.00
2 Door 24" Unit
7502-2
138.00
2 Door 30" Unit
7501
280.00
60" Dresser
7521
268.00
46" Dresser
7522
288.00
Armoire
7525
128.00
7505-39 Storage Headboard
298.00
Triple Dresser
7520
88.00
Corner Hamper
7503
78.00
24" Mirror
7504
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DETROIT 1
Sinai
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in massive department cuts
or closing of the main facili-
ty.
Ten formal meetings of the
coalition formed. Com-
mittees were set up. Doctors
worked all day; in between
patients they discussed the
hospital's fate. For Dr.
Beckman, Sinai's future was
worth the extra hours.
"I am ethnically very pro-
ud of being Jewish," said Dr.
Beckman, opthalmology
chairman. "Sinai represents
a vehicle to which I can
devote myself to Jewish and
medical ethics at the same
time. I bring all of my pa-
tients to Sinai.
"The coalition just
happened in response to a
notion that a merger with
the DMC was conceivable,"
Dr. Beckman said. "With a
merger with the DMC, the
hospital's identity might be
lost.
"It prompted us to show
that we were viable in our
own right," Dr. Beckman
said. "To be a partner, like
getting married, you first
must make sure you know
who you are."
Sinai President Robert
Steinberg said recent discus-
sions with DMC were con-
structive and positive. The
decision not to continue
talks, he said, was a direct
result of the success of the
physicians' coalition.
Merger, he said, no longer is
an option.
By the end of December,
Sinai had boosted its in-
patient tally to between 400
and 420 patients each night
— up from its average 350-
patient-per-night census.
This week, Mr. Steinberg
said, the figure escalated to
over 430 patients per night.
Mr. Steinberg said the
hospital hopes to increase
that patient census to 500
each night.
The doctors' recent show of
support convinced board of
trustees president Merle
Harris to change his mind
about the hospital's future.
"The doctors demonstrated
by the increase in the census
that there was a way to
make it," Mr. Harris said.
"Before they demonstrated
their ability to bring in pa-
tients, other options seemed
available. When they dem-
onstrated we could be viable,
I wanted to stay open. When
we thought we couldn't be
viable, I wanted to close."
Chief of Staff Dr. Norman
Bolton said, "We were con-
vinced the hospital could
survive."
In the last two years, Sinai
has made attempts to merge
with DMC and the Henry
Ford Health Care Corp.
Original talks with DMC
were called off to focus on
Ford. Later, Ford ter-
minated negotiations with
Sinai. Most recently, Sinai
re-entered discussions with
DMC.
"We felt that because we
didn't have a commitment
from the doctors, we looked
at merging," Mr. Steinberg
said. "But with reorganiza-
tion and medical leadership,
doctors who were in limbo
are back. The patients didn't
come from new doctors."
Dr. Bolton said physicians
at first didn't realize the se-
rious nature of Sinai's prob-
lem.
Historically, doctors rarely
became involved in hospital
politics. Observers said ad-
ministrators didn't work
with doctors and the trustees
had their own game plan.
"We were all on the same
team, but we weren't follow-
ing the same game plan,"
Mr. Steinberg said. "When
everything coalesced, it
worked.
"We have a unanimous
mandate from our board of
"Probably one of
the most gratifying
things in my life
was when the
board, the
administration, the
doctors and the
Jewish community
came together out
of crisis to form a
new system."
Dr. Hugh Beckman
trustees to continue opera-
tions as an independent
health care system. Our
physicians have rededicated
themselves to Sinai. Addi-
tionally, we have received a
groundswell of support from
the Jewish community as
well as our other consti-
tuents throughout the area."
Dr. Beckman said,
"Probably one of the most
gratifying things in my life
was when the board, the
administration, the doctors
and the Jewish community
came together out of crisis to
form a new system."
The coalition, which
started when doctors feared
they lacked needed support
from the executive board of
the hospital and the
organized Jewish commun-
ity, will be converted into
the Friends of Sinai
Hospital. It will be a support
group, which ultimately
could become a fund-raising
mechanism.
Dr. Beckman will co-chair
Friends with Sinai Guild