European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday june 12, 1977 a hospitals health care for vets should be integrate info Overall . Program report claims Washington a the Multi Billi on Dollar veterans administration health care program is obsolete and costly and should be phased into the country s Gener Al health system says a major National Academy of sciences report. The extensive three year study commissioned by Congress arts released Satur Day snid the health system for military veterans generally gives adequate care but is riddled with problems. The report said there could be significant improvements in Cost and Quality of care if a policies were revised to permit the a system ultimately to be phased into the general delivery of health service in communities across the  the a veterans groups and others re acted immediately and negatively to the suggestion that the autonomous a Hospi Tal system be done  with As they have in the past to similar recommendations. A administrator Max Cleland said i can personally attest to the fact that the a Hospital system has Many areas where improvements can be made. However any suggestion for elimination of the a Hospi Tal system is contrary to the nation s history of providing for Veteran health  sen. Alan Cranston d-calif., chairman of the Senate veterans affairs committee called the report thoughtful and serious and said he would hold hearings tin it in the fall. However Cranston said i remain full committed to maintaining a separate a medical system that can guarantee Quality care for the disabled  . Bulldog Smith National com Mander in chief of the veterans of foreign wars termed the report insulting and in sensitive and said his organization would fight any implication. To do away with the v a  311-Page report by a committee of the Academy s National research Council did not recommend abolishing the a hos Pital system but integrating it More closely with regular Community facilities. I Don t think veterans hospitals have to be phased out of existence 5 or. Saul j. Karbor of new York University stud chairman told a never been that route before Maurice Abby. 63, a Driver for the Culver City calif., bus lines found someone had been trafficking in humor during the night and had changed the destination signs on two of the buses in the City parking lot. Quick in the clutch. Abby grabbed a timetable and risked Riding from colleagues by going along with the gag. A photo Pat s ruling brings protests fear of child molesting bars dads West Palm Beach. Fla. A the local Parent teacher association has told fathers not to accompany their children to a summer movie program because we want to avoid child molesting says Anta official. Some of the dads Are complaining one plans a Boycott and an unhappy Mother business is picking up for armoured guards Sacramento Calif up a Quarter mile stretch of interstate to was paved with Silver dollars. The California Highway patrol said an armoured truck carrying $3.000 in Silver dollars was headed for the Nevada casinos when a Back door accidentally opened spilling the coins on the freeway guards halted the truck and scurried onto the Roadway to collect the Silver Dol Lars As the Highway patrol blocked traffic. Several motorists jokingly offered to help the  one officer said a Uio mis armoured car service. Inc. Spokesman said the coins had been in three bags and one of the i Pound sacks apparently dislodged a door lock wants to organize a counter movement called save our  prohibition against male parents was part of a brochure advertising the 10 week series of motion pictures beginning june 20."we be tried our Best not to admit men said Lottie Gaffney president of the Palm Beach county Council of ptas. We want to avoid child molesting. Statistics prove that a child molester is almost 100per cent male. We re trying to make it As Safe As  after the brochure was circulated the Pat began receiving complaints from parents male and female. After an explanation was provided most were very understanding. Gaffney said. Not Tosh Joyce ," she said. This policy discriminates against me As a working Mother. It discriminates against All males because o the insidious Assumption attached to the policy. It invades the whole concept of  plans a protest demonstration monday at a meeting dealing with family activities to prevent alcoholism and drug abuse " it is sponsored in part by the Pat. Family activities said Smith the Pat just outlawed a family activity " in the i the report said the Federal government spent $40 billion on health care in Utt of which $4 billion was on the a to provide care for three million veterans less thin 30 per cent of whom have service related  other things the study con eluded Many patients admitted to a Hospi tals do not require hospitalization and Many Are kept As inpatients much longer than medically necessary or desirable. The a is responsible for substantial she said her son 8, and daughter 10, have designed some of the material to be distributed. One leaflet says save our fathers another  equal rights amendment for fathers. Or. C. Errol Hicks a College professor whose son and daughter have attended the summer movie program in the past says they will Boycott this year s session. Hicks is a former member of the county school Board and his wife is a former school it president. The policy May be based on Good intentions he said but you Don t exclude fathers on the possibility that one of the might be a  Hicks said he does plan to participate Ina summer program with his son. It s sponsored by the Myca. Chute Champ hits 6,000 Sofia up russian women s Para Chute Champion Valentino  made her 6.000th jump an absolute record for women of All times the official bulgarian news Agency Bra reported it said Zak Uretskaya. A former world Para Chute Champion was participating in an International jumping meet mar Sofia comm dated in the 27,000 Beds designated for Long term care. There were 44,800 Lew term patients in 1975 in a operated faculties Many taking up More expensive Beds set aside for surgery and acute illness. The number of veterans requiring Long term care and geriatric services will double in the next 10 years and almost triple in 20 years. The report recommended that Low use a hospitals be closed or converted to Long term care facilities and that resources be redistributed to spend More on care for the aged. A outpatient services Are under staffed ineffectively managed and not Well organized. More resources should be rechannel cd to outpatient services to pro vide better continuity of care and to Cut hospitalization the study said. Staffing at psychiatric hospitals is in adequate to provide for More than Custodi Al care. More than half the patients in a psychiatric Beds do not appear to require hospitalization and Many could be treated As outpatients if there were extensive social support services not provided now. The report also concluded that a dental services were inadequate and that too Many a hospitals do special surgery such As for heart and kidney conditions for there to be maximum utilization of expensive surgical facilities. Tied to Community needs or. David Tilson of the National re search Council staff director of the study said a major recommendation of the report is that future a facility planning be tied to the needs of the Community it is located in. Tilson said new hospitals should not be constructed without the approval of the local health planning Agency which would consider a Beds and services As part of the Community total. Excess facilities Are not Only expensive to build but encourage overuse which drives up costs of care for the Community he said. Under the recommendation for Community input into a planning is an escape clause. If the a wants a facility but cant get Community approval there could be a provision for Congress to overrule the recommendation of the local planning Agency the study said. The report noted that the a medical construction program increased sharply in recent years. From fiscal 1965 through 1974, $815 million was appropriated for construction while $1.1 billion was appropriated for 1975 through 1977. In May. President Carter approved plans to build seven a replacement Hospi tals and one new Hospital. Funds have been approved to begin work on the first two in Bay Pines Fla. And Richmond a. Tilson said the study s findings indicate the veterans administration should reexamine plans for the new facilities. Data suggests some May be underused at their locations and that existing Community facilities might be used to serve veterans he added. Authors of the report said there should he More incentives for a hospitals to co operate with Community facilities and merge services. Budgetary changes would help this Inte Gration including an act of Congress to allow the a to be reimbursed by third party insurers  Community hospitals Are. The report says