"Let all who are hungry come and eat..."
Help ensure that everyone in our community has a happy Passover.
Use this coupon to help feed hungry Jewish families.
Yad Ezra will use your donations to purchase Passover food to
distribute to those in need.
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YAD EZRA
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❑ 1 case of chicken
$ 82.00
I case of matza
$ 55.00
❑ 1 case of tuna fish
$ 48.00
❑ 1 case of gefilte fish
$ 47.00
❑ 1 /2 case of chicken
$ 41.00
❑ 1 case of coffee cake mix...$ 38.00
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❑ 1 case of soup/matza ball mix $ 34.00
❑ 1 case of oil
$ 26.00
1 case of tomato sauce
..$ 26.00
❑ 1 case of eggs
$ 25.00
❑ 1 case of horseradish
$ 20.00
❑ 1 case of grape juice....,
$ 19.00
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tie money, they would then have
a greater incentive to get in-
volved with their children's ed-
ucation."
Stephen Silberfarb, deputy
executive director of the anti-
voucher National Jewish De-
mocratic Council, questions
whether vouchers would really
solve continuity problems and
fears that they would under-
mine other Jewish interests.
"We all support Jewish conti-
nuity and recognize it as impor-
tant," he said. "But you can't
advocate a position because it's
`good for the Jews' if it's bad for
other things."
Mr. Silberfarb sees vouchers
as taking money from public ed-
ucation when "if anything, pub-
lic education needs more, not
less, money." He says that when
government and religion come
together, it's usually not in the
interest of religious minorities.
While the JPC asserts that
vouchers would drive down -,u-
ition at private schools, Mr. Sil-
berfarb believes vouchers would
actually lead to a tuition infla-
tion. ❑
DIAGNOSIS page 3
❑ A Seder Package for a family of six
$75.00
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(subject to certain limitations)
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care of only three residents it ob-
served.
The highest severity level of
the violations was a "D," which
denotes that the harm to a res-
ident is potential only. Danto re-
ceived an "H" rating — denoting
a pattern of substandard care
— in the first state survey.
According to the report, Dan-
to still failed to adequately treat
pressure sores — a source of sev-
eral citations in the first in-
spection — and to adequately
prevent urinary tract infections
of one female resident.
The report also cited Danto
staff for not using the proper
method of transferring the same
patient from a bed to a wheel-
chair and for failing to properly
treat the respiratory infections
of two other patients.
Finally, the inspection report
notes that three Danto staffers
were unaware of the location of
fire alarms in patient rooms.
The report will go to the state
Health Care Finance Adminis-
tration, which will determine
whether Danto should receive
its license to admit Medicaid re-
cipients.
Danto Administrator Linda
Grossman Funds said the facil-
ity requested a third state in-
spection last month, and it
showed that Danto is "citation-
free."
"We wanted a resurvey be-
cause we wanted to be in sub-
stantial compliance with the
Health Care Finance Adminis-
tration. We are certainly very
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she said.
Ms. Kerlin, the state licens-
ing officer, confirmed that upon
the third visit, Danto had cor-
rected all the cited deficiencies.
She would not say whether the
facility is citation-free.
Danto began admitting new
residents on Monday, the same
day it opened its subacute care
unit. There are now six resi-
dents in the 40-bed unit, bring-
ing the total head count at
Danto to 53.
Ms. Funds speculated that
the difference between the first
and second state inspection re-
ports had a lot to do with the
preparedness of the facility.
"The first report was so se-
vere, it would be difficult to cor-
rect all those citations in a
six-week period," she said. "But
because we weren't admitting
during that time, we were able
to implement the systems we
had started but hadn't fully im-
plemented because we were only
open for three weeks when the
state first came in."
Danto implemented the
wound care program, for exam-
ple, and has focused on record-
keeping — a major problem in
the last inspection.
"It was just a matter of hav-
ing our systems in place and
tried on a daily basis, and con-
stantly reinforcing and training
our staff," Ms. Funds said.
The next state inspection of
the facility will happen within
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Organ Transplant Campaign Begun
Reform Jews in the United States
are being asked to fill out organ
and tissue donation cards as part
of a nationwide campaign.
The Union of American He-
brew Congregations is asking the
800 Reform congregations in the
U.S. to participate in its "Gift of
Life" program.
The Reform movement differs
with Orthodox and Conservative
Judaism in advocating organ do-
nation. A UAHC statement says,
"Reform Judaism has long sup-
ported organ donation in the be-
lief that the use of human organs
and tissues to heal or save a life
is in keeping with Jewish tradi-
tion. A 1968 Reform responsa
noted that the transplantation of
organs and tissues is an act of ho-
liness and is consistent with
p'kucch nefesh, the saving of a