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harges filed against a Jewish
nursing home by Michigan's
chief prosecutor last week
were directed at an individ-
ual and not the facility, said a Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
official.
When an 81-year-old Alzheimer's
patient at the Marvin and Betty
Danto Family Health Care Center in
West Bloomfield wandered outside for
30 minutes last January, the crime was
not in the frostbite she suffered, and
which required treatment at
Beaumont Hospital, but in the failure
to report the incident to regulators,
alleged Michigan Attorney General
Jennifer Granholm. She also filed
charges against three other Michigan
nursing homes last week.
Linda Funds, 50, of Huntington
Woods, Danto's former administrator,
was charged with a misdemeanor count
of failure to report abuse, mistreatment
or neglect of a patient. She pleaded not
guilty at her arraignment Wednesday in
48th District Court in Bloomfield Hills.
A Nov. 1 pretrial date was set. The max-
imum penalty upon conviction is 90
days in jail and a $100 fine.
"This action by the attorney gener-
al is targeted toward an individual and
not toward the facility itself," said
Mark Davidoff, Federation's chief
operating officer. "The Federation .
continues to be actively involved in
working with the Danto center in
improving its programs through
COJES (Commission On Jewish
Eldercare Services.)"
"The reporting of the incident was
the issue," said Angie Szumlinski,
Danto's new administrator, who can't
comment directly about the incident.
The alarm systems were checked in
February and have been cleared by the •
Michigan Department of Consumer
Industry Services.
"We are comfortable with the sys-
tems that are in place," she said. No
further incidents have taken place, and
we give good care."
Dr. Marc Chicorel, a West
Bloomfield podiatrist who practices
at nine Detroit-area nursing homes,
including Danto, and at a clinic in
Holly, agrees. "Overall, I feel the
patients get regular attention, look-
ing from the outside in, compared
to the many homes I have been to in
the metro Detroit area over the
years," he said. In his opinion, the
Danto center is "right up there in
the quality of care." Fl
— Harry Kirsbaum
Settlements
Sought
German vice consuls
field questions about
bank litigation for
Shoah victims.
A
n informational discussion
by vice consuls from
Germany about Swiss Bank
litigation for Holocaust vic-
tims will be held in Oak Park at 3
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Building of the Jewish
Community Center of Metropolitan
Detroit.
The discussion will cover eligibility
and the application process in both
the Swiss Bank and new Austrian
Bank litigation.
Jewish Family Service of
Metropolitan Detroit is sponsoring
the meeting, and its staff will assist
individuals with applications. The vice
consuls and a representative from the
Holocaust Claims Conference will
respond to questions.
"The applications that are out there
are only the preliminary applications,"
said Rachel Yoskowitz, JFS director of
Citizenship and Immigration Services.
"The objective is to make it easier for
the survivors to fill out complicated
forms. We also want to make it cost-
effective."
— Harry Kirsbaum
For information, call Rachel
Yoskowitz, (248) 559-1500,
ext. 275.