s: , '. 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 ) / " 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 . , . 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'· ••• WHAT Rich , Auto " - , '! -- ' . .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