Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 9-22-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 917. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/917 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dollars Reach Nursin^^ _ WASHINGTON (AP) De- has taken over financial respon- • In El Granada, Calif., a by Senate investigators of mak- dance to keep patients quiet . troit nursing home, tied •" a age. spite a billion-dollar bonanza sibility for most of the nursing nursing home operator is ac- ing profitable "mass visits" to Doctors agree to prescriptions chair. The old are also the poor. And ' from the federal government, home care in this nation. The cused* of stealing a dying pa- nursing homes where patients over the telephone to nursing t Regular hospitals, faced because of this, the federal gov- America's nursing homes are a taxpayer now pays $2 out. of ev- tient's savings of $13,000 after are plentiful. Records show one homes without examining their with serious overcrowding, ernment has made nursing -stark and lonely place to die, ' ery $3 pouring into private nurs- she and a lawyer lifted his fee- doctor ' who operates his own patients. One Michigan woman sometimes discharge hopeless homes a rich business. Abuses in money and medi- ing homes. ble band to guide his signature nursing horde in Jefferson, Tex., was thought to be speechless for cases and ship them to nursing Medicaid, the vast federal- cine, an air of death and despair Profits are healthier than on a legal paper. : - '- . , billed medicare last year for two years until a new doctor homes to die. An American state program that pays the shadow the aged through the ever. But other ills fester- • A suburban New York City 4,560 visits to just 54 patients. stopped the sedatives and found Medical Association spokesman health costs for the poor, now dusk of their days. tough federal regulations have nursing home billed medicare • For the most part, however, she could talk. said, ('I know it sounds harsh, pumps more than $1.1 billion a Doctors rarely see their pa- been slower than federal dollars for nearly $4W),000 for physical doctors', care in many nursing • Nursing homes have be- year into private nursing ' ¦¦'¦ but a hospital serves no purpose tients. Nurses use drugs freely in reaching nursing homes. therapy in one year. "When the .- homes across, the country is so come warehouses for elderly for these patients." homes. to restrain the elderly. Mental For this hidden million Ameri- government tried to recoup part scarce that it is a national scan- mental patients that state hospi- Other federal . programs In- patients are dumped into nurs- cans, the.end can be an fempty, of the money by suspending dal. In one large home in Tope- tals turn down or turn out. Few Nearly a million people are cluding medicare which pays ing homes by the thousands. grim; even degrading tragedy. medicare payments, the nursing ka, Kan., a survey showed homes have any hint of psychi- confined to the nation's 23,000 for brief stays in nursing homes And fraud feeds on the federal home discharged ail its medi- three-fourths of the patients atric care, and most use drugs nursing homes and other homes . .. after leaving a hospital, raise dollar. The Associated Press, iii an care patients. checked had not been seen by a —or keep the patients belted' in for the aged. Most are past 75. the total outlay by the taxpayer extensive nationwide study of Some physicians, dentists, doctor in at least half a year. chairs. A woman who spent al- And most are senile or mentally • ¦ ; ( 5) Through medicaid and medi- ^nursing homes, found facts and X-ray firms and other medical' ' •v' • Tranquilizers, sedatives and most 50 years in a mental hospi- contused, their minds fuzzy with Continued on Page care, the government suddenly cases like these: {specialists have been accused other drugs are used in abun- tal now sits and stares in a De- the cobwebs that come with old NURSING HOMES i Cloudy Anybody Seen With Showers Beethoven? Possible Classified Section ^ Chinese Deny N Viets Shoot Down Report on Five US. Helicopters ' SAIGON (AP) - North Viet- damaged. American was killed and nine Mao s Health namese troops shot down five A fleet of helicopters landed wounded, but it could not isay MOSCOW (AP) - The American helicopters, including American infantrymen from the whether any of the casualties Chinese Communist Embassy three during an infantry assault 196th Brigade in a hilly area 34 denounced as "lies and slander" were in the helicopters shot today reports circulating in today on the edge of the Que miles south of Da Nang. The down or all w.ere in the ground Moscow that Chairman Mao Son Valley south of Da Nang, men immediately made contact fighting. Tse-tung is critically ill. Three North Vietnamese sol- A U.S. spokesman said it was with North Vietnamese troops, diers were reported killed. The reports, lacking any offi- not known immediately how triggering a 3^-hour fight, cial Soviet confirmation , have badly the three choppers were The U.S. Command said one The fighting occurred eight been attributed to "reliable miles east of Hiep Due, a refu- communist sources;" One re- gee resettlement town which port said Mao had suffered a has been threatened since last stroke Sept. 2 and that only month by two regiments of the massive medical attention was North Vietnamese 2nd Division. keeping him alive. Intercept Nets In two weeks of heavy fighting in the area last month, the U.S. "This Is typical of the lies and Command reported 75 Ameri- slander of the American bour- cans and up to 1,000 North Viet- geois press which is always hos- namese killed. tile to People's China," said a The other two American heli- Chinese Embassy spokesman. Pot and Pills copters shot down were de- Informed that co mmunist LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oper- Operation Intercept headquar- stroyed and raised to 3,040 the sources in Moscow had circulat- ation Intercept, the govern- ters in Los Angeles said five total of U.S. helicopters repbrt- ed the report, he snapped "That ment's drive to cut off drugs men and a •woman from New ed lost in Vietnam. REMOVING VICTIMS . Red Cross workers and fire- least 40 of the 111 passengers aboard. The plane also carried is the same thing." from Mexico, netted uncounted York City were arrested Sunday One of them, a small Army men remove victims from wreckage of a jetliner of the Mexi- a crew of seven. (AP Photofax> western diplomats comment- illegal pills and thousands of south of the border by Mexican observation helicopter, was pounds of marijuana as it carta do Aviacion which crashed on swampy area killing at ing ' on the reports said they officers who reported the group downed last Friday about IJ were impressed by the specific reached full operation , over the possessed 140 kilos of marijua- miles west of where the three detail of some of the accounts, weekend along 2,500 miles oi the na... troop-carrying helicopters were 111 ABOARD 727 JET adding that illness of Mao would U.S.-Mexico border. A spokesman said the six hit Monday, the U.S. Command help explain such events as Pre- The intercepted contraband were jailed at Sonoita, Mexico, said. Three Americans were Mansfield Tells mier Chou En-lai's abrupt de- included half a ton of marijuana a mile south of LukevUle, Ariz. wounded. parture Sept. 4 from Hanoi in aboard a plane that was seized. Customs agents at Laredo, advance of the funeral Tex., reported they seized 1,400 An Army Cobra gunship was of Ho Chi Some 90.000 persons in 30,000 pounds of marijuana from Mexi- Minh, president of North Viet- downed in Tbiia Thien province ' cars who went to Mexico for a co over the weekend. Sunday 26 ; miles northwest ol Casualty Count Varies Nixon s New nam. bullfight at Tijuana and horse ' Da Nang, wounding one man Skeptics here, however noted At sea, Wavy patrbV boaits , racing at Agua Caliente Sunday joined Coast Guard cutters in aboard. that there have beeft mairy~Mos- found themselves waiting in line cow checking smill craft. The South Vietnamese govern- reports in recent years on for inspection at San Ysidro In the air, planes crossing ment reported that Viet Cong Asian Policy Mao's failing heJath, and that south of Sah Diego on their re- ' from Mexico were being moni- terrorists raided two refugee In Mexico C ity £ rash WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. despite specific details, the re- turn: tored on military radar planted camps in Quang Ngai Province ports later MEXICO CITY (AP) - Many jpassengers in the sec- and Mrs. Robert Marshall of missions in the Far East are un- proved to be untrue. The line stretched six miles at at known smugglers, routes early Saturday and killed .19 ¦Swampy ground off the end of a ond section were thrown out by Chicago, were reported in seri- der new orders to heed Presi- Observers in Hong Kong gen- one time and the delay grew to across the border. persons, including eight mem- runway at Mexico Cty 's Inter- the impact and landed in waist- ous condition.