Word: cabrini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Thomas Downey, with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents' home in West Islip. Downey is sustained because the people consider him a good guy who works...
...cardinals assembled in the Vatican to cast their ballots in a secret consistory, Pope Paul VI issued a decree of canonization on her behalf. Thus, on Sept. 14 in St. Peter's Church, Mother Seton will become America's first native-born saint. (Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a naturalized American, was canonized in 1946, but like some 2,000 other Roman Catholic saints, she was born in Italy...
Like many big-city hospitals, Chicago's St. Frances X. Cabrini Hospital has been declining with the neighborhood. As white middle-class families left their sturdy brick houses for the suburbs, poor black and Spanish-speaking families moved into the residential sections surrounding the hospital. Doctors began to shun the area, partly because of crime, partly because 60% of its residents were on welfare. By 1970, Cabrini's hospital beds were only 68% full and the hospital was $1,000,000 in debt...
Anxious to replace the doctors who had traditionally served adjacent neighborhoods and referred patients to Cabrini, the hospital board last year tried a unique approach. It bought an abandoned movie theater a few miles from the hospital, also in the ghetto area, refurbished it and added examination and waiting rooms. At the same time the board launched a search for two doctors willing to staff the theater-turned-clinic. Conditions: Cabrini would guarantee salaries of $3,000 per month for each doctor in return for referrals to Cabrini...
...Filipino internists accepted the offer last May. Word of the program spread through the neighborhood, and the doctors now average about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...