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A 10 THE COURIER-JOURNAL. SATURDAY. MARCH 14. 1987 KENTUCKY DEATHS Bowen of Louisville on Medicare status heart-transplant centers "iff- 1 l- Dr. Otis R.

Bowen, left, talked yesterday with Andrew DeYoung, center, and Dr. Judah Skolnick at Jewish Hospital's remodeled Institute for Heart and Lung Disease in Louisville. By MIKE KING Staff Writer The nation's top health official toured Louisville's medical center yesterday but gave no hints whether either of the city's two heart-transplant centers will get the federal government's coveted "center of excellence" designation. Dr. Otis R.

Bowen, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, formally dedicated the newly remodeled Louisville Institute for Heart and Lung Disease at Jewish Hospital, where Kentucky's first heart transplant took place in August 1984. But the former Indiana governor sidestepped questions about whether Jewish and Humana Hospital-Audu-bon will be approved for Medicare reimbursement for transplants. "Those will be very difficult decisions," Bowen said during his tour. "Our emphasis has to remain on the quality of care. We'll be looking very closely at that so that we are confident that the centers which are chosen will be able to look after the long-term care of the patients." Bowen said his department's Health Care Financing Administration should have the final criteria for Medicare reimbursement within a few weeks.

A panel of cardiovascular disease and surgery experts then will review applications and recommend which hospitals should be approved for reimbursement. The federal designation will be important for hospitals because private insurers have long endorsed such an approach toward covering heart transplants, which often cost $75,000 to $100,000. Once Medicare makes its designation, hospital officials believe private insurers will follow suit Bowen announced last fall that Medicare, which covers the nation's elderly and disabled, will begin paying for heart transplants. To keep costs down and ensure high-quality care, Medicare officials proposed last October that reimbursement be limited to hospitals that have achieved high success rates and do at least 12 operations a year. The proposed criteria for "centers of excellence," which Bowen con- "ALBANY Delmer Booher, j59, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 2 Sunday, Talbott Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. ALBANY Herbert L. Andrews, 81.

died Thursday in Burkesville. His wife, Madie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Talbott Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m.

Saturday. BOONEVILLE Eugene Moor, 56, Sextons Creek, died Thursday in Island City. His wife. Audrey, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Searcy Strong Funeral Home. BOWLING GREEN James T. Easton, 84, died here Friday. His wife, Harriett, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Monday, Hardy Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. BOWLING GREEN Barbara Allen Ives, 85, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Johnson-Vaughn Funeral Home. BOWLING GREEN Mary Ellen May, 64, died here Thursday. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Monday, J.C. Kirby Son Funeral Home.

Visitation after noon Saturday. BOWLING GREEN Lillie B. Poynter, 71, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, J.C.

Kirby Son Funeral Home. BOWLING GREEN A graveside service for Or. Frederick Reardon 70, formerly of Bowling Green, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Fairview Cemetery. He died Feb.

23 in Philadelphia. Johnson-Vaughn Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. BURKESVILLE Jamfts Lester "Jimmy" Gannon, 49, died Thursday in Nashville, Tenn. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Norris New Funeral Home.

Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. CALHOUN Amanda Josephine Conrad, 86, Route 1, Rum-sey, died Friday in Cleveland, Tenn. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Knobbs Church of God of Prophecy.

Visitation at Muster Funeral Home after 1 p.m. Saturday. CAMPBELLSVILLE Alfred Hadley, 65, died here Friday. His wife, Helen, survives. Funeral, 2 p.mi Sunday, Parrott Ramsey Funeral Home.

Visitation after 3 p.m. Saturday. CLINTON James Leonard Spraggs, 75, died Thursday in Fulton. His wife, Jessie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, R.D. Brown Funeral Home. CORBIN Walter M. Faulkner, 83, died Thursday in Dayton, Ohio. His wife, Dixie, survives.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Hart Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Satur- Curry Branch Pentecostal Church. She was killed Thursday in a traffic accident near here.

Her husband, Anthony, survives. Visitation at her home. Britton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. MANCHESTER The funeral for Betty Ann Wagers, 28, Mar-cum. will be at 3 p.m.

Saturday at Marcum Baptist Church. She was killed Thursday in a traffic accident near here. Her husband, Taylor, survives. Visitation at the church. Britton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

MANNINGTON Gary Austin Fowler, 78, died Thursday in Madi-sonville. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Bandy Funeral Home in Nor-tonville. MONTICELLO Maiie Oleane Smith, 66, Lexington, died there Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Parmleys Grove Baptist Church. Visitation at Marvin S. Hicks Funeral Home after 10 a.m. Saturday. MOREHEAD Lester A.

Lambert, 74, Clearfield, died there Thursday. His wife, Verna, survives. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, North-cutt Son Home for Funerals. Visitation after 1 p.m.

Saturday. MOREHEAD Tobie Lee Patrick, 14, formerly of Olive Hill, died Wednesday in Hope Mills, N.C after an illness. His parents, Sgt. Daniel and Margaret Powers Patrick, survive. Graveside service, 1 p.m.

Sunday, Patrick Cemetery in Carter County. Visitation at North-cutt Son Home for Funerals after 7 p.m. Saturday. MOUNT VERNON Millard E. Rowe, 73, died here Thursday.

His wife, Alma, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Cox Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday.

PADUCAH Albert Rea, 75, died here Thursday. His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 4 p.m. Sunday, Roth Funeral Home. RICHMOND Frank Maxwell Chase, 96, died here Friday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, 111. Oldham, Roberts Powell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. SCOTTSVILLE Fielding Ellis Price, 66, formerly of Allen County, died Friday in Bowling Green. His wife, Jackie, survives.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Tom Crow Son Funeral Home. SLAUGHTERS Marie M. Oakley, 73, died Thursday in Henderson. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Tompkins Son Funeral Home in Sebree. WAYNESBURG Edith Ro-seler, 72, Stanford, died there Friday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Barnett Demrow Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Saturday. 2 girls drown as car rolls into Lee lake Associated Press BETHANY, Ky. Two Wolfe County girls drowned Thursday after the car they were riding in rolled off a steep road into a lake, state police said yesterday. The victims were identified as Jennifer S. Spencer, 7, and Barbara A.

Middleton, 8, both of Campton. They were riding with Jennifer's mother, Pamela Spencer, 27, Thursday about 5 p.m. on a road close to Spencer's Pay Lake in Lee County near the Wolfe County line. (It was not known if there was a connection between the name of the lake and that of the victims.) The car's motor stopped and Pamela Spencer apparently lost control of the vehicle on the steep grade, state police said. It rolled over an embankment, through a fence and into the lake.

Spencer escaped along with a 9-year-old boy, who was not identified, but the girls were trapped in the back seat, police said. ELKHORN CITY The funeral for Arnold Cantrell, 60, will be at I p.m. Sunday at Little Beaver Church of Christ Visitation at Bailey Funeral Home. ELKTON Eula Hadden Harris, 76, died Friday in Hopkinsville. Her husband, Jack, survives.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, First Apostolic Church. Visitation at Latham Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday. FRANKLIN Dorotha Col-son, 63, died here Friday.

Her husband, Dentis, survives. Booker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. FRANKLIN Viola Deweese, 76, died Friday in Nashville, Tenn. Her husband, Willie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Booker Funeral Home. GREENSBURG Sheila Den-ise Anderson, 25, died Monday in Elizabethtown. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Anderson, survive.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. Visitation at Foster-Jones Toler Funeral Home. GREENSBURG Cathyn Irene Martin Walker, 72, died here Friday. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Sunday, Foster-Jones Toler Funeral Home. Visitation after 4:30 p.m. Saturday. GREENVILLE Gene Carlton Hale, 57, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Be-shear Funeral Home in Dawson Springs. HARDINSBURG Arvil T. Shartzer, 70, died Friday in Louisville. His wife, Mae, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Monday, New Bethel Baptist Church. Visitation at Trent-Dowell Funeral Home after noon Sunday. HINDMAN Allene Martin, 67, Sassafras, died Thursday in Lexington. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Hindman Funeral Home.

Visitation after 3 p.m. Saturday. HINDMAN Una Pigman, 87, died Thursday in Hazard. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Hindman First Baptist Church.

Visitation at Hindman Funeral Home after 8 a.m. Saturday. HINDMAN Marcus Ritchie, 88, London, formerly of Lotts Creek, died Thursday in Corbin. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Hindman Funeral Home.

Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. IRVINE James E. Howard, 83, formerly of Estill County, died Friday in Louisville. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Lewis Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Saturday. LAWRENCEBURG Sylvia Stratton Morris, 86, formerly of Lawrenceburg, died Friday in Marshall, Mo. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Huddleston Funeral Home. Visitation after noon Saturday. LIBERTY Luther Vaughn Roy, 64, died here Thursday. His wife, Maxine, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Sunday, McKinney-Brown Funeral Home. Visitation after 3 p.m. Saturday. LONDON Jessie McKee, 64, died here Friday. Her husband, Bill, survives.

Funeral, 10 a.m. Sunday, Bowling Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. LONDON Edgar B.

Underwood, 67, died Thursday in Lexington. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Bowling Funeral Home. Visitation after 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

MADISONVILLE John Baker Pidcock, 75, died here Friday. His wife, Hazel, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Elm Grove United Methodist Church. Visitation at Barnett-Strother Funeral Home after p.m.

Saturday. MANCHESTER Chester Henson, 80, Billy's Branch, died Thursday in Lexington. His wife, Edna, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Sunday, his home.

Visitation at his home. Britton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. MANCHESTER The funeral for Theresa Smith, 21, Horse Creek, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Study backs nursing home for firmed yesterday will not change much, call for the hospitals to have performed at least 36 transplants and achieve a one-year success rate of 73 percent and a two-year-survival of 65 percent Neither Jewish nor Audubon meets the experience criteria Jewish has done 29; Audubon, 24 although they may reach the required number by the time their applications are considered. Bowen predicted that the competition will be fierce.

When both hospitals began their transplant programs in 1984, they were among the first 20 American hospitals to offer the procedure. Since then about 50 other American hospitals have started doing it In some cities, such as Salt Lake City, groups of hospitals have formed a consortium to do transplants. In the first 20 months of operation the Salt Lake City group has performed more than 70 transplants with oyer 90 percent of the patients surviving. In 1984 there were 370 heart transplants done in the United States, Bowen said. Last year there were 1,300.

Bowen, a former family-practice physician and county coroner before rising through Koosier Republi General Assembly showed that a home with 158,000 square feet would cost $13.7 million. Nearly $9 million of that would come from federal sources, according to the report Annual operating costs would be $7.6 million, with more than half of that coming from federal funds. The state would have to pay the rest plus an additional $394,000 each year for replacement of equipment, Wellman said. According to the report by Health Care Resources Inc. of Connecticut, 306,680 veterans will live in Kentucky in the year 2000, and 106,725 of them will be over 65.

That num Rector, 24, Rhonda Dolores Rector, 19, and Felicia Hogan, who was charged as a juvenile because she turned 18 after the alleged offenses were committed. Their arrests bring to seven the number charged in connection with the scheme, which authorities say may have bilked credit-card holders out of as much as $100,000. Rector, convicted of fraud and escape and awaiting transfer to a. state prison, allegedly received lists of credit-card numbers copied from discarded carbon sheets removed from credit-purchase slips at Madi-sonvllle stores. Then he allegedly called a couple in Nashville, from the jail Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky.

An independent study recommends that the state build a 300-bed nursing home for veterans, Adjutant General Billy Wellman told a legislative panel yesterday. Such a nursing home "is long past due," Wellman told the Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs. "It's an obligation to the men and women of this state who served their country," he added. Wellman said Kentucky is one of 11 states that do not have a nursing home exclusively for veterans. The study ordered by the 1986 STAFF PHOTO BY BIU KK3HT can ranks to become governor, said he could not prejudge the Louisville transplant programs' qualifications.

He described Jewish Hospital's longstanding cardiovascular services as "being on the vanguard of progress." After he toured the heart and lung institute on the hospital's third floor, he and hospital officials had lunch at the Jefferson Club. He was accompanied by his wife, Rose, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, who helped arrange the visit. Bowen then visited Humana Inc. officials and toured Humana Hospital-University.

Bowen said be was interested in studying the contract the city, county and state have with Humana to provide indigent care at the hospital. (The contract provides $21 million a year in tax money that is designated to pay the hospitalization charges of people without insurance. Any charges over that have to be absorbed by Humana, which leases and operates the hospital.) "The problem of uncompensated care is one of the most perplexing we face," Bowen said. "I'm interested in ideas like this one in Louisville to see if they can be applied elsewhere." state's veterans ber is expected to remain nearly constant for at least 15 years. One-fifth of the beds in the nursing home would be reserved for residential care, the lowest level of long-term care.

The majority of the beds, 180, would be for intermediate-care patients, and the rest would be for skilled care, the highest level of long-term care. The site-selection committee recommended four locations for the home: two at Wilmore in Jessamine County, one at Radcliff in Hardin County and one in Jefferson County. Wellman said his personal recommendation would be a 30-acre site in Wilmore, where a landowner has offered to donate the property. collect and the couple connected him to mail-order companies through a conference-call telephone. He then placed orders using the credit-card numbers, the sheriffs department said.

The merchandise was then delivered to the Rector home in Norton-ville, authorities said. Two former jail employees and a former inmate also have been charged with receiving stolen property in connection with the scheme. The jail employees were fired after being charged. Rector has not been charged, pending the completion of a Secret Service investigation of the scam, sheriffs officials said. Edgewood, where officials said he refused treatment and signed out.

Wayman was taken to the Kenton County Jail by Kenton County police about 6:40 p.m. for failure to appear in court on charges of non-support and alcohol intoxication, Jailer Jim Knauf said. Knauf said Wayman collapsed about 9:50 p.m. and was taken to St. Elizabeth Medical Center North in Covington with a head injury.

He was transferred to University Hospital in Cincinnati and died there the next morning. Inmate's relatives arrested in credit-card scam Associated Press MADISONVILLE, Ky. The mother and three sisters of a Hopkins County jail inmate who has been implicated in a credit-card scam have been charged with receiving ill-gotten goods. Arrested on Thursday and charged with receiving stolen property were: Daisy Mae Rector, 49, mother of the inmate, Robert Rector; and sisters Sharrion Lou LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS aay. DANVILLE The funeral for John Arnold, 19, will be at 11 a.m.

Saturday at SS. Peter Paul Catholic Center. He died Thursday after a head-on collision on U.S. 27 near Nicholasville. Preston-Pruitt Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

DANVILLE J.W. Nevius, 48, died here Thursday. His wife, JoAnn, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Preston-Pruitt Funeral Home.

Visitation after 2 p.m. Saturday. ELIZABETHTOWN The funeral for Evelyn Helm, 34, will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Needham Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Hardin County. Visitation at Dixon-Atwood Adkins Funeral Home after 6 p.m.

Saturday. She died Wednesday. ELIZABETHTOWN The funeral for Robert Hudson Carpenter, 87, will be at 1 p.m. EST Sunday at Manakee Funeral Home, with burial at 3 p.m. EST Sunday in Hiseville Cemetery in Warren County.

He died Thursday. ELIZABETHTOWN Artie Mobley Stark, 94, died Friday in Radcliff. Brown Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Nellie Mae Bohannon, 70, of 211 Hemingway Road. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Monday, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 510 Breckinridge Lane. Visitation at 3711 Lexington Road, after 7 p.m. Saturday and after 3 p.m. Sunday. Clinton A.

Burgess, 83. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Pearson's, 149 Breckinridge Lane. Mary E. Carr, 88, of La Grange, formerly of West Ormsby Avenue, a native of Oldham County.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Radcliffe Funeral Home in La Grange. Fred Collins, 75, of 1335 S. 28th St. Funeral, 9 a.m.

Saturday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St. Blanche Smiley Dott, 89.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, O. D. White Sons Funeral Home, 2727 S. Third St Tommy A.

Fletcher, 54, of 1001 Chesley Drive. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Okolo-na Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway. John D.

French, 59, a native of Colesburg. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, St Denis Catholic Church, 4205 Cane Run Road. Arch L. Heady Son Oak Street Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Kenton man refuses treatment after accident, dies of injuries Associated Press COVINGTON, Ky. A 27-year-old Kenton County man, who police say refused treatment after an accident, died yesterday at University Hospital in Cincinnati. John Wayman was riding a three-wheel motorcycle at his home south of Independence when the vehicle apparently flipped over about 4:45 p.m. Thursday, police said. Wayman was taken to St.

Elizabeth Medical Center South in Walter J. Griffin, 80, of Parkway Medical Center. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Eastern Cemetery chapel. Visitation at Portland Memorial Chapel, 518 N.

26th after 8 a.m. Saturday. Cordelia L. Gebhart Hampton, 82, of 1024 Ash St. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Saturday, St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, 1020 E. Burnett Ave. Russ-man Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. John T.

Henderson 54, of 1244 S. 15th St. Funeral, noon Saturday, Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway. Virginia C.

Hettinger, 57, of 712 Breckinridge Lane. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 510 Breckinridge Lane. Ratterman's Lexington Road is in charge of arrangements. Helen Hazel Brown Hoffman, 66, of Blackburn Avenue.

Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Monday, Neurath-Cralle Underwood Crescent Hill Funeral Home, 2428 Frankfort Ave. Visitation after noon Saturday and Sunday. Walker Wendell Ison 40, of 521 S. 27th St.

Funeral, noon Saturday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St. Thomas Kissel, 58.

Private funeral, with cremation to follow. Pearson's is in charge of arrangements. Keller C. Leist, 82, of 3105 Sherbrooke Road. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. Eva E. Crank Lott, 74, a native of Rockcastle County. The funeral was held Friday at Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home.

Sarah E. Masden, 57, of Elizabethtown, formerly of Louisville. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, R. G.

May Sons Phoenix Hill Funeral Home, 719 E. Chestnut St. Ida Crank Meenach, 65, of Shively, a native of Carter County. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, W.G.

Hardy Valley Funeral Home, 10907 Dixie Highway. Dr. Mary C. Metcalf, 72. The body was donated to the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Leona Bell Oney, 75, a native of Vine Grove. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Ratterman Sons-Southwest 4832 Cane Run Road. Visitation after 10 a.m. Saturday.

Imogene F. Sweeney Price, 58, of 7902 Candleglow Lane. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway.

Ricky O. Ragozine, 29, of San Bernardino, formerly of Louisville. The body was cremated. Burial will be Monday in Hammond, Ind. Leo E.

Rautenbusch, 61, of Shively. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, St Helen Catholic Church, 4005 Dixie Highway. Keenan's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Joseph C.

Schulz, 72, of Pleasure Ridge Park. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, St. Paul Catholic Church, 6901 Dixie Highway. Owen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Louis C. Stout 63. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home, 4109 Taylorsville Road.

Estella Knoop Turner, 86, of 837 i2 Beecher St. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. William L.

Williamson, 74. Funeral, 1 1 a.m. Saturday, St. Anthony Catholic Church, 2222 W. Market St.

Ratterman Sons-Portland is in charge of arrangements. Vernon A. Wise 70, of Route 2, Palmyra, formerly of Louisville, a native of Hardin County. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, St.

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