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by Kevin Thomas
; Healthcare
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Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas organizations
spending federal funds for health
care said Tuesday that budget cuts
pushed by U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm
would undo the Texas Legislature’s
recent move to improve health care
for the poor.
“Sen. Gramm’s hastily concocted
scheme would effectively gut im
proved health programs enacted by
the Legislature last session,” said Mi
chael Hudson, director of the the
Children’s Defense fund.
A Gramm spokesman in Washing
ton said Hudson and those who
joined him at a news conference
“lack even a rudimentary under
standing of the legislation.”
“It’s clear from their comments
that Mr. Hudson and others present
would prefer to go on mortgaging
the future of every child in Texas in
order to lay their hands on some
more of the taxpayers’ money to
day,” said Larry Neal, Gramm’s
press secretary.
Jose Camacho, director of the
Texas Association of Community
Health Centers, said the Gramm
proposal is “cost-shifting to the
states.”
“We either enact new state taxes
to replace these federal funds or
leave thousands of uninsured Texas
mothers and babies without critical
health care,” Camacho said.
The Gramm-Rudman Amend
ment, under debate in the U.S. Sen
ate, would require Congress and the
White House to abolish the $180 bil
lion deficit by 1990. Across-the-
board spending cuts would be im
posed automatically if the president
and Congress failed to meet annual
budget targets.
Hudson said under the Gramm
amendment, T exas would lose $1.3
million the first year in funds for
prenatal care and post-natal services.
He said funds for prevention and
treatment of veneral diseases, in
cluding AIDS, would be “signifi
cantly reduced.”
Comacho said the 27 Texas com
munity health centers would lose $2
million the first year, eliminating
services to almost 3 1,000 people.
Neal said “those figures are very
obviously pulled out of thin air.”
Consultant claims she saw nurse
falsifying Autumn Hills records
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — A licensed
vocational nurse, falsified records at
an Autumn Hills n using home in
Texas City in 1978, a nursing con
sultant testified T uesday in the trial
of a corporation and five people
charged with murder by neglect.
Pauline Kaper said she found pa
tient charting at the nursing home
was inadequate.
“Did you notice any outright falsi
fication of records?” Galveston
County District Attorney Mike Gua-
rino asked.
Kaper testified: “I noted one. On
a resident’s record there were some
holes and gaps in charting and (a li
censed vocational nurse) was filling
in those holes. It was not even for a
day she had worked.”
Kaper’s testimony came in the
trial of Autumn Hills Convalescent
Centers Inc. and five of its current
and former employees. The de
fendants are accused in the Nov. 20,
1978, death of Elnora Breed. 87,
who died 47 days.after she entered
the Texas City home.
The state has claimed the nursing
home was guilty of wholesale neglect
of its patients and of falsification of
records. The defense claims Breed
died of cancer.
Kaper testified she was called in
for a week in 1978 to act as a consul
tant at the nursing home after a state
health department inspection
turned up several deficiencies.
She said she told nursing home
administrator Virginia Wilson thfit
she saw a licensed vocational nurse
falsifying records, but Wilson had no
response.
Wilson is one of the five individ
ual defendants in the case. T he oth
ers are Autumn Hills president Rob
ert Gay; vice president Ron
Pohlmeyer; nursing consultant Mat-
tie Locke; and former director of
nursing services Cassandra Canlas.
Kaper said that after she in
spected the nursing home and its re
cords, she was particularly con
cerned about Breed. She testified
there was a strong urine odor to
Breed and throughout the nursing
home.
“I’m not saying you won’t have an
odor at a nursing home from time to
time,” she said. “But if it’s there all
the time, then you have a problem.”
Kaper said she found catheters on
a number of patients were not being
changed often enough.
Kaper said she also noted the pa
tients were not being given enough
water, were not being monitored on
their food intake, were not being
kept clean and were not being
turned regularly.
Egyptian troops to receive anti-terrorist training
Associated Press
WESLACO — A team of Egyptian security troops,
trained to protect American dignitaries and to combat
terrorists such as those who hijacked a luxury cruise
ship, are in the Rio Grande Valley for a specialized
training course.
The 23 Egyptians will be trained for three weeks by
Pat Dalager, a former director of the criminal justice
training program at Texas A&M University.
Dalager, a retired Army lieutenant colonel in the mil
itary police, was selected by the U.S. State Department
to instruct the course.
Dalager said some of the Egyptian troops in T exas
could have become involved in the current crisis in the
Middle East, in which several Palestinian terrorists hi
jacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro.
The ship docked briefly in Egypt, but now is off the
coast of Lebanon.
The hijackers are asking Israeli officials to release 50
of their comrades held in their jails and reportedly have
killed at least two Americans on the ship.
“They would be (getting involved) if they were there,
if it was in their jurisdiction,” said Dalager, the coordi
nator of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development
Council’s Police Academy.
But Dalager said most of the specialized training
would be for the security forces that guard the U.S. Em
bassy in Cairo and protect dignitaries. T he 150-hour,
three-week course will include classroom, specialized
and practical field exerices.
Joining in the course, which began Monday, will be
seven other police officers from South Texas, Dalager
said. _
The training will include physical fitness exercises,
weaponless defense tactics, entering and exiting vehi
cles, instinct shooting techniques with AR-15s and 12-
gauge shotguns, advanced driving techniques, bomb
search techniques and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
There are about 14 different agencies across the
country that train troops to guard dignataries abroad,
but Dalager is the only one certified to do so in Texas.
“I think it’s a feather in our cap, a testimonial to the
capability of Mr. Dalager,” said Bob Chandler, exec
utive director of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Devel
opment Council.
Dalager said the profits from teaching the course will
go into providing reference and education materials for
the police academy.
“It’s very possible that with the situation as it is in
Central and South America there could be more of
these done in the Valley,” Chandler said.
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