Comprehensive services.
Providence Hospital in Southfield
offers a full range of cardiac ser-
vices. We care for patients from
the time they arrive at our Chest
Pain Emergency Unit until they
complete diagnostic tests, inter-
ventional procedures, open heart
surgery and cardiac rehabilitation.
And Providence also offers some-
thing else--the special personal
care that has been our hallmark
for nearly 150 years.

cal hours after a patient begins to
experience chest pain. Physi-
cians and nurses specially trained
in emergency cardiac care proce-
dures can determine the cause of
chest pain and quickly begin
treatment.
Diagnostic and interven-
tional procedures. To detect
heart disease, Providence cardi-
ologists access such state of the
art technology as stress echocar-
diography, thallium stress testing,

performed nearly 500 of these
delicate procedures, restoring
patients to more normal lives.
Cardiac rehabilitation. Car-
diac rehabilitation programs at
Providence are designed to help
return people to activities of daily
living as quickly as possible.
Programs begin just days after
cardiac surgery while patients are
still in the hospital and continue
after the patient returns home.
The board-certified cardiolo-

When it's a matter of the heart .. .
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Heart disease, an American
killer. Every two and a half
minutes, someone in the United
States suffers a heart attack. The
number one killer of American
adults, heart attacks will claim
600,000 victims this year. But
for many who seek treatment
quickly, today's "clot-busting
drugs" can stop a heart attack in
its tracks.
Chest Pain Emergency Unit.
That's why Providence opened
one of the first Chest Pain Emer-
gency Units in metro-Detroit--to
provide care in those initial criti-

Doppler and transesophageal
echocardiography. And last year,
they performed more than 1,500
procedures including cardiac
catheterizations, angioplasties
and atherectomies to pinpoint
and clear blocked or narrowed
coronary arteries.
Cardiac surgery. For many
patients angioplasty or atherec-
tomy can significantly improve
a heart condition. Other patients
may require open heart surgery
to bypass blocked or diseased
coronary arteries. Last year,
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gists and cardiac surgeons at
Providence are among the best in
southeast Michigan. For more
information on the hospital's
cardiac services or for a referral
to a Providence physician, please
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Israeli Trip
Under Attack

Berlin (JTA) — A trip that
brought 19 youngsters with
radical right views from the
eastern German city of
Dresden to Israel in an effort
to educate them about Jews
has come under severe at-
tack.
The city has reprimanded
the trip's organizer and put
a halt to the travel program.
Dresden's mayor, Herbert
Wagner, has issued a warn-
ing to Marita Schieferdecker-

Adolph, the city's ombudsman
for foreigners, for financing the
weeklong trip from a fund used
for the integration of new
Jewish residents into German
society.
Mr. Wagner also stopped
all future trips, placed the
control of the immigration
fund into a different office
and ordered the ombudsman
to take a class in ad-
ministration.
The trip cost approximate-
ly $37,000 for the 25 par-
ticipants, which included six
Jewish youths from
Dresden.
Ms. Schieferdecker-Adolph
said that there was more
than $177,000 available in
the fund and that since
fewer Jews had stayed in
Dresden than had been
originally anticipated, there
was money available for the
trip.
Still, the city ruled that
her actions were inap-
propriate and that the Social
Welfare Office, not the Of-
fice of the Ombudsman,
should have control over the
fund.
The trip, which was con-
ducted between Oct. 16 and
23, has been criticized for
other reasons as well.
Accounts in the German
and Israeli press said that
members of the visiting
group insulted Jews in Israel
and refused to visit the Yad
Vashem Holocaust
memorial during their stay
in Jerusalem.
Both Ms. Schieferdecker-
Adolph and Sabine Kurth, a
social worker who was also
on the trip, strongly denied
these reports.
Officials and commen-
tators have also questioned
whether youths belonging to
the radical right can benefit
from a trip to Israel.
Henryk Broder, a well-
known Jewish journalist and
commentator here, strongly
criticized the program, say-
ing that if a- neo-Nazi had an
unpleasant experience in
Israel the trip might actu-
ally reinforce his anti-
Semitic feelings. ❑