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...severely dementing conditions by the year 2000. Yet the VA and state veterans homes today can provide fewer than 40,000 nursing-home beds. "The demand for long-term care is going to skyrocket over the next five to 15 years," observes VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Kenneth Kizer, who estimates that in the year 2010, 1.6 million vets will be 85 or older. "If you don't have the money, you can't provide the service...
Under Secretary Kizer was brought in last year to try to make the VA system more efficient, consolidating redundant facilities and shifting the emphasis from in-patient to outpatient care to the extent the law allows. But if demand begins to dwarf resources, he says, the VA will circle the wagons around its core mission of providing for veterans' service-related disabilities. Other services, such as nursing-home care, says Kizer, "are subject to being diminished." The extent to which the VA will be able to treat the poor or nonservice-related maladies will depend on the political decisions Americans...
...Christy Trexler Brown C Shelby Marshall Brown DP Sue Calder Brown Player of the Year: Leslie Silverman Rookie of the Year: Dawn Kulp, P-Penn WOMEN'S TENNIS Singles: 1. Erika deLone Harvard 70 pts. 2. Alexis Boss Dartmouth 52 pts. 3. Clindy Kuragami Yale 38 pts. 4. Janette Kizer Columbia 28 pts. 5. Aila Winkler Princeton 24 pts. 6. Barrie Bernstein Penn 11 pts. Doubles: 1. Erika deLone/Erika Elmuts 66 pts. 2.Alexis Boss/Cathy Birkeland 42 pts. 3.Cindy Kuragami/Kari Weiner Yale...
...fact, the biggest problem for DeLone was playing on Kizer's level...
1.DeLone (Harvard) def. Kizer (Columbia), 6-2,6-0;.Chulock (C) def. Cooper (H), 3-6, 7-5, 6-4;3.Parker (H) def. Smith (C), 6-3, 6-4; 4.Passent (H) def. Majmudar (C),6-3, 6-4; 5.Tarpley (C) def. Clemente...