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12 Detroit Jewish News
acing approximately $100
million in losses for 1998,
the Detroit Medical Center
is cutting jobs and pro-
grams throughout the region and is
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expected to close either a historically
Jewish hospital or its northwest
Detroit neighbor in the coming year.
Sinai Hospital, founded in 1953 as
a haven for Jewish doctors facing
employment discrimination elsewhere,
was sold to the DMC in 1997 for $65
million. The proceeds formed The
Jewish Fund, an endowment adminis-
tered by the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit that provides
grants for health and human services
programs within the Jewish communi-
ty and the Detroit community at large.
Six months after purchasing Sinai,
the DMC announced it would merge it
with neighboring Grace Hospital, bring-
ing the two facilities under Sinai's roof.
At that time, the merger was to entail
costly renovations. Now, it appears that
the hospitals will still merge, but services
will be scaled down and it is unclear
which building will be closed.
David Page, a DMC board member
and former Federation president,
insists that whatever the changes, Sinai
will remain a Jewish hospital and that
both the Sinai and Grace missions will
be retained.
Page said that the DMC has "bent
over backwards" to relate to the Jewish
community since purchasing Sinai and
that Jews should continue to have an
interest in the northwest Detroit hos-
pital and its suburban branches. "The
DMC has expanded the kosher food
offerings and rabbinic chaplaincy pro-
gram at Sinai and service programs to
Jewish agencies have expanded."
Despite DMC efforts, the number
of Jewish doctors and patients at Sinai
is decreasing, and — with the Grace
merger — will likely fall further.
Since its purchase by the DMC,
many of the Jewish physicians who
have left Sinai have gone to other
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health care networks. The number of
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Jewish patients — currently five per-
cent of the hospital's patients — also
has decreased. A 1998 Simmons-Jewish
News survey of randomly sampled
Jewish News subscribers found that half
who had used a health care facility in
the past year opted for Beaumont
Hospital in Royal Oak, while only 25.9
percent had used Sinai. 1-1