Without You, The Suruiuors' Stories Might Neuer Get Told She comes from Przemysl, Poland. She is among the 10% of Polish Jews who survived Nazi Occupation. Now she is in her 80's. Her family's graves are overgrown and crumbling. Her experiences haVe gone untold. Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc., an Ann Arbor non-profit, is working to restore Przemysl's Jewish cemetery and to publish the stories of survivors like her— in Poland, where they most need to be heard. Shrin At Danto Nursing home cuts Medicare beds in reimbursement dispute. LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer F Help us fight Anti-Semitism in Poland. Help us preserve the Memory. Please send your tax-deductible contribution to: and reconciliation, Inc. R emembrance 1835 Cambridge Road o Ann Arbor, MI 48104 For more information, call: (7 34) 665-5734 Why you're smart to advertise in The Detroit Jewish News. $20 800 000 a month in new vehicles! Jewish News readers spend $250 million each year on new vehicles. Get your share by advertisng in The Detroit Jewish News. DETROIT JEWISII NEWS Another sure-fire way to reach this affluent audience: The JN 5ourceBook, the annual guide to Jewish living in metropolitan Detroit. Source: 1998 Simmons Jewish News Study Ask about our 24 Hour Emergency Service 30 Vehicles • Radio Dispatch Quality instalkaion 3/19 1999 40. 16 Detroit Jewish News N w acing a sharp cut in federal insurance payments, a Jewish nursing home on the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Campus has cut, from 60 to 20, the number of Medicare patients it will house. The Toledo-based company that runs the Marvin and Betty Danto Family Health Care Center, said it took the step because the average federal reimbursement rate of $208 a day does not cover the costs of housing and medical care. It said it had been getting an average of $378 a day until new Federal rules took effect in January. It's not yet clear whether the closing beds would affect elderly Jews looking for nursing home care. The other Jewish nursing option in the area is the 220-bed Menorah House in Southfield. "Under this new system, each building gets a per diem based on the 1995 cost of care," said Larry Lester, regional manager of Health Care & Retirement Corporation-Manorcare in Toledo. Since Danto didn't exist in 1995, the rates are based on those charged at the former Prentis Manor on Lahser Road in Southfield, which moved patients to the 161-bed West Bloomfield facility. Medicare had been paying the full cost of caring for a patient but has changed its rules to cope with a mounting multi-billion- dollar anticipated debt. HCR has asked the Federal Health Care Finance Administration to raise the rate for Danto. Mark Davidoff, chief operating officer of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, - - said Federation is assisting,so-- HCR has the right ;nrormation about 1995 r ases --aarentis Manor, and "to make the case to the federal govern- ment that this is important to the Jewish community." Lonny Goldsmith can be reached at (248) 354-6060 ext 263, or by e-mail at: lgoldsnzith@thejewisbnews.com The Medicare beds were decertified on Jan. 1 of this year, although the plan to not accept new Medicare resi- dents began a couple of months earlier. "We made a conscious decision not to admit Medicare residents in those beds even though we were still certi- fied," said Linda Funds, the Danto administrator. "We would accept people if they were short term; no one was left Only 20 beds for Medicare patients. out in the cold. We wouldn't have done all 40 at once if that were the case." The United Jewish Foundation Metropolitan Detroit leased the land to HCR, and HCR has the right to use it c for at least 30 years, Davidoff said. "They agreed to run it for the ben- efit of the Jewish community," he said. Losing 40 Medicare beds is a concern "because it affects people's entry into Danto," he noted. This news comes on the heels of a state inspection in December that found 13 violations at the facility, seven of them dealing with quality of c--) care. Eleven of the 13 were described as isolated incidents rather than recur- ring problems, and all 13 have been corrected, Funds said. The facility got below av er-5- reports from state ita,i ) ections in January_ar..c/ October of 1997. And a ivaie survey late last year rated Danto third worst in Oakland County -/ in terms of family satisfaction: Funds said 115 beds are currently occupied in the four units at the facili- ty: long-term, short-term, Medicare and Alzheimer's. She noted that fewer patients mean lower operating costs but declined to discuss the overall finances of the nursing home. Li