Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High Mission. There have been a good many forks in the road to Percy Foreman's present state of eminence. The son of a small-town Texas sheriff, Percy was one of eight children. He went to work at the tender age of eight, tried everything from shining shoes to professional wrestling. During his years at the University of Texas Law School, he turned his natural talent for oratory into tuition fees by hitting the Chautauqua trail, lecturing widely on such subjects as "The High Mission of Women in the 20th Century" and "How to Get the Most...
WHEN THE Medical School's Community Health Plan opens its first clinics in August, one of its branches will be in Roxbury's Mission Hill discussion. Mission Hill is only a few blocks away from the imposing buildings of the Med School, but mere proximity is obviously not the reason for the plan's outpost in Mission Hill...
...overt aim of the Med School's plan is to help those medically-deprived poor patients. By the time the plan reaches its full enrollment in 1971, some 6000 people from the Mission Hill area should be signed up to get Harvard Health Plan care...
Pollack and his staff are also tailoring a number of the health plan's tactics to meet the special needs of the poor. Staffs of recruiters will travel through Mission Hill neighborhoods and encourage people to come in for check-ups and preventive care...
...major health problem of poor people, Pollack says, is that they are "under-utilizers of maintenance and prevention, and over-utilizers of emergency treatment." By luring needy patients in for more prevention--and by using the health plan's emphasis on out-patient treatment -- the Harvard center in Mission Hill will offer the poor a kind of medical assistance much different from the mere doles that Medicaid and Medicare pass...