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Emmy Award Winning
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Melinda "Mindy" Soble

with the annual benefit concert
featuring Israeli singing sensation

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Sunday
Nov. 1, 1998 / 7 PM
Southfield Centre for the Arts

24350 Southfield Road • South of 10 mile

For tickets and
donations call:
248.855.4482 or
248.855.6170

Also available at
Borenstein's, Spitzers and Esther's

Proceeds from the
concert will help
fund a flight to
transport radiation-
induced young victims.

Tickets: Adults $20 in advance/
$25 at door
Children $7 in advance/
$12 at door

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Owner, Director

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Hospital
Plan Stalls

Rising costs cited in postponing the merger
of Grace and Sinai.

JULIE WIENER

Staff Writer

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iting financial difficulties
and escalating renovation
costs, the Detroit Medical
Center is postponing plans
to merge two of its neighboring
properties in northwest Detroit,
Sinai and Grace hospitals.
It is also suing its competitor,
Providence Hospital, alleging the
Southfield hospital is "interfering
with Sinai-physician relationships
while physicians are under contract
with Sinai," said DMC Media
Relations Director Cheryl
Yurkovich.
Providence, which has hired at
least eight Sinai physicians in the
past year, is denying the allegations,
noting in a prepared statement: "A
number of physicians at Sinai have
approached us, as is their right, for
employment information for a vari-
ety of reasons. All discussions with
these physicians and any subsequent
offers of employment made by
Providence were legal and ethical."
Sinai, which the DMC purchased
in 1997, opened in 1953 as a haven
for Jewish doctors who were denied
staff privileges and positions at secu-

lar hospitals. Despite its decreasing
number of Jewish patients, the hos-
pital continues to operate a kosher
kitchen and maintains ties to the
Jewish community.
A number of doctors who recently
left Sinai say the hospital's lawsuit
-against Providence is misplaced ancOh-
that physicians are leaving not
because of lucrative offers elsewhere,
but because they are unhappy with
DMC's management.
"Rather than trying to make
changes through suing their competi-
tors, they should be looking at ways
to keep their doctors," said Dr.
Arthur Efros, an internist who movai.,
from Sinai to Providence in May.
"People are leaving because of the
way they were treated, the way things
were being run. They saw an admin-
istration that was not responsive."
Dr. Gilbert Herman, a pathologist
who moved last December from
Sinai to Botsford General Hospital
in Farmington Hills, agreed. "I
believe the doctors that moved to 4"
Providence and other hospitals made
up their mind because of a number
of issues, only one of which was eco-
nomic," he said. "For physicians
being given an opportunity to work
in a comparable hospital environ-

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