Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news of an evacuation. During lulls in the shooting, those who could made their way to the U.S. embassy. On Tuesday the first U.S. MH-53 helicopter finally appeared over the horizon. "Soldiers threatened to rape our children," said Brian Johnson of World Relief after touching down in neighboring Sierra Leone. "I feel very good...
...Republican efforts to roll back environmental regulations--as have the Environmental Defense Fund, the World Wildlife Federation and the Center for Marine Conservation. They argue that unless the Latin nations are given credit for their efforts, they will simply resume their bad old ways. Meanwhile, Earth Island Institute, the Sierra Club, the Humane Society and Friends of the Earth vehemently oppose the Stevens bill and support Boxer's, charging that the delegation in Panama sold out the dolphins to free trade...
FIVE YEARS AGO, SIERRA TUCSON WAS the model of a happy farm for substance abusers. Thousands of people from across the country came to the manicured 325-acre "campus" to deal with their addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling among the saguaros and sagebrush in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains. It was a Cadillac of the substance-abuse centers, and a company-provided Cadillac at that: employee health insurance routinely covered most of the costs of the standard 30-day stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used...
Welcome to rehab centers in the age of managed care. "It was like a cloudburst," admits Keith Arnold, Sierra Tucson's director of marketing. "It decimated the business. We've changed our marketing strategy and now go after the self-paying"--read rich--"client." These days, it is difficult to get in-patient coverage at all for detoxification. "The number of in-patient treatment programs has declined precipitously," says Monica Oss, editor of Open Minds, a behavioral-health-industry newsletter. "Between 1988 and 1993, the average number of patient bed days dropped from...
...result, across the country facilities like Sierra Tucson have been forced to reinvent themselves. In 1994 the Hartford Institute of Living, in Connecticut, merged with Hartford Hospital to avoid extinction. The nonprofit giants, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota, have both increased the amount of financial aid they offer to needy patients. McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusets, a 185-year-old Harvard-affiliated facility, long ago famous as a haven for addled and addicted Brahmins, has seen its average patient stay drop from 57 days to 14 since 1989 and now fills...