s:
,
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no ervice .
,A .leaftc t .cnli tl 'd "H alth
Cafe in Dell oit P r p tu at
Genoeid ." pub h hed h ' CPH,
charge tb t d lay 10 M di adc
and Medicare payment by the
t te and federal government are
re pon ible r th inancial
problem uch h spital face.
. They warn thi. i tua ti n wi II
I
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num
Mcd: ar
B r er predict th t wh n th
t\ h spital merge part of th
Graec Ho: pita). April 1 r, there
will be everc j educ tio n or
l i mi natron of emergency care
r p u t who are unin ured.
J hn Court , Dir ct r of
Public Communication for Grace
Ho pital, denies thi , rating that
"l'hi I certainly not in the plan.
W intend to erv th full. com
plement f patient. [including
t h sc 0 n 'i d ] . " .
doctor.
Th Y I 0 lairn that t WIl
liam Beaumont H pital n Ro I
Oa • 250 M die id recipient
had n turned away la t year.
doctor refu d to cc pt
trong:Ki
e m Set OU
"NOVI, ICH - T 0 Wayn County me cr Genevieve Johnson nd
volunte r teams, representing Bla k tide 4-H Center program i-
and H' panic cornrnuniu in D - arit Bar ra E� y.
troit, eveloped action plans to help
overcome the problems that place
minority youths at risk. '
"Strong Kid ,($trong Communi
tie . Overcoming th Problem of
Youth.At Risk" was at ree-day in
tensive tramm C?nf(4fen.ce for team
of'cornmunity adult ork \ It
endangcred youths.
By targeting African-American
les and providing- th 01" vith
cational prog am to help th m. _
with health l�U�, develop , -
ership ana personal empowerme. t
� skill d rn m ir
cui lm r. '
they b come par 0- .
vide etter life for, err 'I
This acti n pta was -clo , "d ,
by a Detroi t u r. er team mad.. up
of reacher Joan Ban ,uf Vanden
berg Elementary; Diana Horvath,
Hutchins Middle School; Debra
. Johnson and May D_ Wathen, both,
of Greater Grace Temple Chris ian education: and ocial and cultural
School; Karen William Redford' dev loprnen to ens ure the po invc
Hi�h School: Michigan Chronicle d vcloprr nt of '(nmg people in the
Hispanic eommunit�,
H
�MII"Iif·j
gan 4- oug rograms, Mic igan
Optimist �nternational clubs,
TOllgate 4-HJEducation Center and
Michigan State University Lifelong
Education.
The project i dcsi ned to ern- •
power communi tie to take cuon
against those IS ues that challenge
the po itive growth otyoung pc plc. •
Yo
ad
'.
genocid
hewing
.
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D T
eem hard hit in relation to the
re 1 0 the U.S. they tate that
number of b bie who die in thi
tate before the g of one are 11
per 1,000, rna ing Michigan
e ightb, hi gbe t in the nation.
They add that 500,000 per on in
the Tri-County are h ve no
medical in urance at alL
oting the million of jobs
10 t in the change rom mechani
cal to lectronic production, p -
tic uJ arl yin the automobi le
ind u try, ore
vehicle i th Ie I bor hours,
they rgue th t to the rule of
thi country the 60 million
people who re livin at or belo
th poverty line re e pendable."
nd tho in power ee no re 0
to "provrd educ non, health
c re, h It r, or food" to the e
"unn ce ry" people.
In order to de I with thi • "per-
p tu tin eno id ." th Y c 11 on
hea th r profe ion I nd
gr roor citizen 'to h nge the
conomi y tern, WhICh m e
health care privil e, r ther
th n right.
To Berger, tbi me n putting
pre ure on ho pit I not to turn
away P tient even if thi invol
ve economic 10 , omethin be
note i p rt f tbe tr ditional,
obligation of medicine, un er
the Hippocr tic Oath.
He dded, however, tllat it wa
a1 Q nece sary to. educate com
munity group and go.to r...nsin
and Wasbingto to en ur that
nece aTY ervice were
provided,' that p y icians and
ho pi tal who did so would not
go out 0 bu ine ,
Wayne"County' ", trong Kid, Strong Communitles't-team member - (pictured from 1-,
r) lana Horvath, Barbara Elzy, Karen William ,Joan ank and Debra John on -
br n torm way to deal with i ue tb t endanger youna people In Wayne County during
trainln conference in Novi. '
rolt
Histori ally B'lack Hospitals face �erious fin nciai"troubh!s,
" .'
NEW Y RK' - Health Profcs
sional from cleven hi torically
private- Black hospi tal , incl ud
. ing Southwc t Detroit Hos ital,
sent a Iinancial di lie s call jo the
Bu h Admini tration.
At a pres conference :'a t he
Nation01 Pre's Club in
WaShington. eleven BlaCk hospi-
"The .pr sent h alth care YS.,.<'are concerned that medicaid and .the national Center for Health
tern fail in that it reward [00 pi- medicare rej..mbur ements, a' Statistics. (White American's
tals] who ignor the poor and major ource of income, does not life expectancy ha inerea ed to
offer 'no encouragement b.r sup- paythe co t 0 providing health 75.6 years.)
port to health care provider who care today, Ho pital . arc also
treat them'," aid Dr. ·David faced wi tf having to care fo in-
Satcher, Pre idc nt of Meharry . crca ing number of unin ured
Medical Sch 01 patient ,"
HO PIT admini t·rator These Bla k In titutlOns take
in the p or, the homele and
orne of the mo t needy people,
without having the adequate
tlnan tal re ource to ervice
them", ,aid Joseph Lowery. di -
tingui h d ivil right leacJer and
Pre ident o(the Southern Chris
tie n Leadl.!rship Conference.
'The Coaliti.on has.prop,osed a
S 00 m�llion loan.:and-grant fund
to aid the ho pital over a five
year peri d, Con re man Louis
Stoke (D-Oh i a reed with
. member of the coal i tion that thi
may \' ell he their only hope for
urvi aI,
"The loan-and- grant would be
u.ed lo,'help Black Hospital
tic JOP way. to better erve thc
poor." at her. ai<.l, The Loan-
al pro tc sional ,member of t�e
Coalition on Black, ospital and
Healt Service, said their In-
tuurion ere in terrible Iinan-
clal trouble and would not be able
to continue operating much
long r without financial help.
, The hospitals pre�ominantly
vice .the "poor".
( .
how' Cel·ebribe'·
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WHAT
Rich
, Auto
"
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,
'! -- ' . .J .P. M rthy, Inger Anlt B ker, and" Life tyle of the
v.. at th pr mier of th 1991 North Americ n Intern tional
I �
and-grant w uld help pay for
edu ati n, early di ea e preven
tion, (nd ommunity Qased
health program. Stati tic how
that there are di paritie between
Bl ek and White health care cr
vi e .
Memher f he clition are
on crn d that clo in in titu
tlon whl h :ervice a
pr dominanll Bla k population
\ ill urth r Iden thi gap. The
fund \ ould help tncrea e the
av ra e lil' -e pectancy for
BI ck whi'h ha. dropped from
9.� in 1 7 to 69.2. according to
'"
. ,
t
I �
ymbolize. that thi country
places little alue on in titutions
that ervic the country' poor,"
Satcher said,
-Member hospi ta ls. of the
IN ADDITiON, the fund Coalition arc: Metrarry H'ubbard
would also be u �d to decrease' Hospital in a h 'lie; Howard
Black infant mortal{t� and to Univ'ersity Hospital.
co�ndlIct more re e rch in Black Washington, D.C.; L. Richardson
teaChing ho pital . . Hospital, Green boro, NC; Nor-
"I think if the [Bush)·Ad- folk. Virginia Hospital; Riverside
minist;iuion can build a stealth Hospital, Houston, TX; Roseland
bomber and pend a millio" dol- Hosptial, Chicago; Southwest
lars a day in Saudi Arabia, they Community Hospital, Atlanta;
ought to take oare of the e in- So u thwe.s t De troi t Hospi tal:
stitution ,It aid Dr. Lowery. North Gen,eral Ho pital, New.
Of the 200 hi, torically Black- York; Central Medical' Center
110 pitals that ¢xi ted at the turn -: Ho pita!; orth General Hospi-
of the century 'only eleven are tal, New York; Central Medical
operating today and their exi t- Center Ho pital, S1. L ui , MO.
ence IS criou Iy threatened. and Newport New Ho pital in
"Le tti ng th e hos pi tals close Virginia .
High 'youth homiCides
prompts legislative hearing
Detroit City Councfl Pre ident
Pro-Tern Gilbert Hill, j n conjunc
tion with the Council's Youth
Advi ory Commi ion. will hold
a legislative hearing on "The
Plight· of the African American Both natio'nal and l<lcal ex-
Male" Friday, Feb. 8 in the 13th pert along with community rep-
Floor Auditor!um, City-County re entative are being invited to
Building. � te tify and give r comm�nda-
The more recent re eareh tion for olution. Mich el
reg rdi ng youth h micide 'ha. Cro �, chairperson of th Youth
prompted a en c of urgen y to Commi ion and dire tor of the
look at the plight of the African Detroit Urban Le gue·s Male
American male in Detroit. "The Re ponsibility Program, sees the
fact that homicide i the leadin young African American male a
cau c r.qcath among youth nin be oming an cndan ered pecies
year' Id and ov:r is appalling, if a tion I n't take to examine
e p ially \ hen you add on the the problem and implement olu-
high number of young Black . .-on .
..
male in pri on and those who are
school drop-outs," aid Council
man Gil Hill. "We mu t b gin to
find 01 ution ."
"