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The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, April 9. 1992-Pagc 3
Canada
The recession has not yet affected funding to Jewish chronic health care institutions, hospital administrators said. [Yaacov Bauer photo]
; By DAVID LAZARUS
MONTREAL -
The one silver lining in the recessionary cloud could well be the fact that Jewish health care institutions, according to several administrators who spoke to The CJN, have by and large not been hurt by the economic downturn in terms of patient care.
The chief reason appears to be that public funding for ' * Jew ish'" chronic care insitutibns— which are in fact public — has not, at least yet, been cut back, administrators said.
Only the Jewish General Hospital, an aciite care facility serving the Jew-. ish and non-Jevvish communities, has seen a reduction in its public financing, director Henri Elbaz.said.
But the ainoiint iis less than one per-cetit of its total operating budget and the cutback has aipplied across the board to all acute care facilities, he said.
Administrators stressed that over-
crowding arid accessibility to health care, as well as the spectre of possible future recession-driven provincial cutbacks, continue to hang over all provincial health care institutions. But the first two situations^ it was ernpha-sized, existed long before the recession hit and have not appeared to have worsened because of the slumping economy.
Hospital foundations, however — the privately-funded sections of institutions that pay for such areas as research, education, and specialized medical equipment — are facing a bigger task in generating support in light of the recession.
Foundation donations, said the JGH's Elbaz. "are not flowing like in the past."
Isaac Katofsky, director of the Jewish Nursing Home (JNH), a 44-patient r^idence for seniors needing constant care, said the JNH, which is in the process of relocating from Montreal's east end to the Cote
Zaionz to run for CJC post
By: BEN ROSE
TORONTO -
Charles Zaionz of Toronto has dropped out of the race for president of the Canadian Jewish Congress and instead will run for chairman of the national executive.
At the moment, Professor Irving Abella of Toronto is unopposed as the new president. The election takes place at the CJC plenary May 20-24 in Toronto.
Zaionz said he decided that the attendant costs and potential divisive-ness of an election at this time would serve neither the best interests of the conununity or the CJC.
He has previously served as chairman of CJC's Ontario Region and is
Charles Zaionz
currently the National Vice-President from Ontario. He is also an officer, of the Jewish Fwieration of Greater Toronto.
des Neiges area, is in the process of activating a foundation, but there is concern over the potential effect the recession may have on its efforts.
"We're being cautious because of Ayhat's been going on in the business world," he said. "It's all stories of doom and gloom."
Some administrators went so far as to say that the recession has had something of a positive impact.
At the Jewish Hospital of Hope, a 132-patient residence in the east end for advanced age elderly that is also in the process of relocating to the Cote des Neiges area, there have been more applications for employment which "I am sure is due to the recession," said director Melvin Simak.
Joseph Rothbart, director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Centre treating lung diseases, said the turnover of staff has been low at the hospital, which has 107 in-patients.
He said hosptals are also benefitting from the increased competition among suppliers brought about by the recession.
Barbara Gold, director of the Mai-monides Hospital Geriatric Centre, with close to 400 patients, said although Maimonides is "always underfunded." she did not think the recession has had an effect on patient care since public funding has not decreased. ~~' ' ■ :
However, she said hospital administrators would not really know until June, when they get word on their 1992-93 budgets, whether they face cutbacks attributable to recessionary pressures.
Rothbart said Mount Sinai anticipated a "lower than usual" increase.
He, for one, thought diat health care institutions could face labor troubles if the province does not offer unions wages in line with their "original agreement,"
But at this point this reriiains a matter of "conjecture," he said.
U.S.
NEW YORK -
The U.S. Justice Department has asked the assistance of the World Jewish Congress in locating survivors of the Holocaust who may be of help in the prosecution of Nazi criminals and collaborators still at large.
The department is seeking to iden-ti^Land interview people who lived in specific areas of Lithuania, Poland or Byelorussia, "Of who were imprisoned at the concentration camps listed below:
• Residents of Swdniki (Sudniki), Nowgrodek, Poland or Zareche, Byelorussia during the period from 1937 to 1942. The WJC particularly wants to speak with witnesses to the murder, persecution and deportation
of civilians to ghettos and concentration camps by German armed forces and their agents.
• Residents of Kaunas, Lithuania, or of the area in and around Minsk, Byelorussia, during the period fiDm 1941 to 1942. The WJC particularly seeks -witnesses to die murder and persecution of civilians at Forts VII and IX in Kaunas, and in the area in and around Miiisk during die fall and winter of 1941-42.
• Residents of Krakov, Poland during 1941-42, particularly witnesses to die taking of property and homes, and the murder and persecution of civilians by German armed forces and dieir agents.
• • Persons imprisoned at
survivors
Buna/Monowitxz in 1942, Jaworz-no/Neu Dachs, and Janinagrube
(and other related subcamps and coal mines) from mid-1942 dirough liberation, and/or who went on evacuation marches from those camps in January 1945.
Please note that die Justice Department is currenUy seeking only survivors of the particular Auschwitz sub-camps listed above during die particular periods specified; and not survivors of other pans of Auschwitz.
Individuals who-can be of assistance in these investigations are to contact: Mr. Sidney Gruber. 501 Madison Avenue, 17th floor. New York, NY 10022-5602, telephone (212) 755-5770.
Meyer Katz, President/C.E.O.
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