The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 14

A14 The Commercial- Appeal Memphia Thursday August 12 1982 Health Group Target Of Racial Complaint ay-jsigwgg Ma at larllaM Ctty Matt through Friday IM A-M Mayor Mtawtngartraa: gw at aardaW Fq BoxMltM Barllott Taaaaitaa M1W as Mda tha city and tfca CHy raianm ttw rioM to rajact aay art blda Bda mint ba gaadtar tMrty (JO day Sign-Up Is Today For Shelby Classes Students in the Shelby County public school system will register today with classes beginning Monday Memphis city schools will register Aug 24-25 and the first day of classes will be Aug 30 Campus School at Memphis State University will hold registraton Tuesday In county schools buses will run for registration with schedules conforming to regular opening times Buses will remain at schools for two hours No busing will be provided for registration at high schools with grades 9-11 Students at Shadowlawn Learning Center and students in self-contained special education classes will register on the first day of classes and need not be present today ceut months the service has done only token recruitment of Macks gives them the right to come in and take away paying patients such as those from county government many of whom would go to black physicians on the basis of having been federally funded? "I can open my office to nonpaying patients who are on Medicaid or who may be unable to pay for my services at aU but when it comes down to paying patients then they ere automatically being referred to Collins said officials conducting the investigation will be meeting with Health First directors over the next few days to hear responses to file complaint Meanwhile Childress said he is in favor of "engaging a neutral party who would see to a degree of equity in the quantity and quality of patient tors on the staff In addition Smith said Health First has only me location at 6445 Poplar in East Memphis and the facility is 5 to 10 miles from most black citizens "There are no large black communities in that area and because a large percentage of county employes are black they would not ha ve easy access to that clinic -Dr Lorenzo Childress an internal medicine physician said he feels the organization is taking patients away from the black community and from black physicians "I have been on the referral list at Health First for over a Childress said "I have not received one patient referred to me from Health Childress said It appears the organization has received federal funding to compete against black physicians and in re- quired to see staff physicians first Be- cause of that fact and owing to employe profiles which Indicate approximately 40 to 50 per cent of county employes are Mack a representative number of black physicians who are actually utilised should be on that staff" Smith said the organization which contracted with county employes in April to provide low-cost health care also discriminates against employes because "the employe no longer has a choice of physicians He must use whatever is "I don't think the black physician is a unique animal who is peculiar unto himself If Health First finds it difficult to recruit Macks I suggest they use the same recruiting methods as those used for white physicians" The commissioners Smith Walter Bailey Minerva Johnlcan and Jesse Turner originally objected to Health First in March because there were no Mack doc By PEARL WASHINGTON Officials with the Atlanta-based Office for Civil Rights in Health and Human Ser-vices have begun investigating a discrimination complaint against Health First a federally funded Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO) The complaint filed on behalf of the county's four black commissioners "orertracial discrimination because of its failure to actively recruit black physicians for its medical staff and as consultants" Asst County Atty Bill Collins said yesterday the complaint was entered with the Atlanta office on April 29 at the request of County Commissioner Vasco Smith "Health First has failed to hire a significant number of black physicians" Collins said "Patients who are members of a Health Maintenance Organization are re iNvmfrtott TO BID ssrsjwttsss at tha krtartara at accuptod art unoocuplJ apartmanM In JlaHc jmjvaSXig hma August 1 at 7M Adama Avanua Momphlt Tannaiaaa at 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Williams who is second vice president of the Tennessee React Council and a member of the International Forum of React ii the only life member of the organization in West Tennessee STEPHEN A OWENS a native of Memphis has been appointed legal counsel of the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight appointment was made by UA Rep Albert Gore Jr (D-Tenn) DR THOMAS CARLSON associate professor of English at Memphis State University has been awarded a Fulbright grant for the 1982-83 school year Under the Fulbright exchange program Carlson will teach graduate and senior students at the University of Bucharest in Romania MRS MARTHA TATE TIDWELL an 84-year-old volunteer at the Ave Maria Guild Home has received the Volunteer of the Year Award given by the Tennessee Health Care Association She has been a volunteer at the home for 26 years ment hand er panda la tha amount at MOW ef me centred All bidders shall be Licensed Ganeral Centractars as remdred by tha Tennessee 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Nearly Reg $11 849 Attention la called te the tact that rles art wages as sat farm In the IDVCmCITIOni VTIUBT pM OH ikla a HIM prVfMCTf 8 ALFRED 'BEN COLE commander of the 118th Tactical Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard has been promoted to brigadier general Cole former commander of the 164th Tactical Airlift Group is base detachment commander of weekday activities for the local unit and has been a member of the guard since 1951 HELEN GORDON formerly of Memphis recently received The President's Award for Distinguished Alum-! nae Service to Chi Omega Sorority at Chi Omega's biennial convention Miss Gordon initiated by the Kappa Beta Chapter at Southwestern in 1932 was cited for her work on committees and coun- Helen Gordon ells of the organization Miss Gordon who lives in Baton Rouge La serves as a member of the Chi Omega Education Foundation Trustees She was dean of women at Louisiana State University from 1947-1966 and LSU's director of women's housing from 1966 to 1974 DR EARLINE HOUSTON formerly of Memphis and a graduate of LeMoyneOwen College in 1964 and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1967 recently was named superintendent of the Philadelphia State Hospital in Philadelphia Pa DAVE YOUNG a postman in the Whitehaven area who recently retired after 32 years with the UA Postal Service was honored this week with a surprise party given by people on his mail route net discriminated against because at race cater creed sea er national origin The Memphis tieusing Authority reserves the right te rated any 'p tie bid shad be withdrawn far a parted at thirty (IQ) days su quant te the opening et bids out tha consent ef the I Housing Authority The Memphis Housing Authority ird centred an the SHOT AT HOME! 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