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Unacceptable Union. Bethany's success helped convert the 141-bed Garfield Park Hospital, whose white patients had moved to more affluent areas. Garfield's board sought a merger with Bethany, which agreed on condition that the hospital open its doors to blacks from the neighborhood. The directors then merged the two institutions and appointed a white administrator, Vernon Showalter, 42, who had run Bethany since 1952. He firmly told Garfield's medical staff: "Black patients are the ones living in this community, and it's black patients who are going to end up in this hospital...
Hiring other personnel proved harder. Garfield's white nursing director quit shortly after the merger: Showalter desperately replaced her with a black male nurse who lacked the generally required bachelor's degree. Other appointments were equally unorthodox. Garfield's personnel director is a former inventory clerk at a local faucet factory; the food-service manager is a onetime hospital kitchen worker whose ability to run a kitchen more than compensates for her lack of training in dietetics...
...measure of the merger's success is that many West Side blacks now can avoid Chicago's publicly supported Cook County Hospital, which is notoriously crowded. Local residents account for 80% of Garfield's patients and 90% of Bethany's. They have also taken advantage of the Bethany Medical Center, an outpatient clinic housed in a former grocery store. The center provides non-emergency and dental care for 1,600 people a month. The average cost of treatment, including tests and Xrays...
...YEAR ago Gerry Studds was enrolled in a doctoral program at the Ed School, living on Garfield Street, and worrying that Nixon, in his November 3 speech on Vietnamization, had succeeded in diffusing antiwar feeling...
...SHARON GARFIELD...