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THE BATTALION
Monday. Februan;
Rural counties coping
with doctor shortage
News in Brief
day, Februi
Teen found dead
Fort Worth hotel
FORT WORTH (AP) — Many Tex
ans are farther away from health care
than in the past, mainly because the
counties they live in can't recruit new
country doctors, according to a state
agency that monitors the dwindling num
ber of rural physicians.
“Today, rural Texans are worse off in
their access to health care than they were
two years ago,” Sam Tessen, executive
director of the Center for Rural Health
Initiatives, told the Fort Worth Star-
Telegram for Sunday editions.
According to the center, 25 Texas
counties do not have a primary-care
physician and another 13 only have one.
Two rural hospitals have closed in the
past year, and many others are struggling
to stay open.
John Bolf, chief executive of the
Austin-based Texas Organization of Rural
and Community Hospitals, said Medicare
and Medicaid cutbacks, compounded by a
managed-care system that directs patients
out of their communities, are putting a
squeeze on small-town medicine.
“Ifyou close a hospital that serves 5,000,
there are going to be lives lost,” he said.
Tessen blamed reduced funding
brought about by the federal Balanced
Budget Act of 1997, which cost some
clinics as much as $20 per patient visit.
Last year, Texas had a net loss of 44
small-town health clinics, he said. And
more than 250,000 rural Texans eligible
“Today, rural Tex
ans are worse off
in their access to
health care than
they were two
years ago. 9 '
— Sam Tessen
Executive director of the Cen
ter for Rural Health Initiatives
for benefits have no Medicare HMO in
their counties.
But professional isolation, a lack of big-
city amenities and resistance to country liv
ing from spouses mean recruitment and re
tention of doctors is a never-ending challenge
for many small towns, said Tessen.
To attract medical stall members,
some areas are advertising generous
salaries and start-up bonuses. Others try
to recruit doctors while they are still in
medical school with offers of hefty
scholarships or future help in repaying
school loans.
Similar incentives are being offered
to physician's assistants and nurse prac
titioners, all with equally poor results,
public health officials and hospital ad
ministrators said.
Since last year, the 15-bed hospital in
Morton, a town of2,600 located 57 miles
west of Lubbock, has been offering a
SI50,000 salary plus $30,000 toward
medical school Joans as incentives for a
second doctor.
“It’s very difficult,” said Paul McKin
ney, administrator of Morton’s Cochran
Memorial County Hospital. “We’re such
a small community, and it's not exactly the
garden spot of the world.”
Tessen said income is rarely the issue
for doctors. Nationally, the median income
of rural family physicians is slightly high
er than that of their urban counterparts.
5127,000, compared with SI26,000, ac
cording to a May 1998 survey by the
American Academv of Familv Physician.
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her hotel room.
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Baylan, 18, a senior at Si
Mary’s Hall, a private schoo
San Antonio.
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that she was dead just befejofMoral
a.m. in their room.
"Apparently, the alarm went
this morning, and shedidn’ti
up,” said Lt. David Burgess.a
lice spokesperson. “There^
no apparent signs of trauma
apparent signs of anything."
Baylan was among dozens
athletes from private schools
Texas and Oklahoma compel
in the winter championships
the Southwest PreparatoryCc
ference, a three-day, coedatlil
ic tournament hosted by Trini
Valley and Country Day seta
in Fort Worth.
The games included soccs
basketball, wrestling and m es
ming.
“It is a real tragedy to eve’i
one." Thomas said. "Shewass
outstanding scholar, a dancer-
an incredible dancer who was? the female
Woman jailed for keeping
children from ex-husband
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at dance — a great athlete and
super role model."
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AUSTIN (AP) — After spending more than a week in jail
for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of two daughters
whom she hid from her ex-husband, Debbie Schmidt is back
behind bars for the weekend.
The father, Manuel Saavedra, won custody of the girls last
year in a California court, but Schmidt has refused to hand them
over. He is a convicted sex offender liv
ing in California.
On Feb. 9, during a routine divorce
hearing in Travis County, Schmidt was
, asked to disclose the girls’ location. She
refused, and State District Judge Jeanne
Meurer ordered her jailed for contempt.
She was brought back before the
judge on Friday, and Meurer told her the
couple’s daughters, 8 and 5, would stay
in a foster home until the matter was re
solved, but she again refused to cooper
ate. Her lawyer, Bristol C. Meyers, said
he will appeal Friday’s decision.
Schmidt told the Austin American-
Statesman she is willing to stay jailed until
her daughters turn 18.
“I can't trade my
freedom for their
safety. How can a
mommy give her
babies to the
beast?"
In 1992, Saavedra pleaded guilty to molesting Schmidt’s
12-year-old niece. He served 30 days in jail, received three
years probation and was ordered into a sex offenders coun
seling program.
Schuckman said that incident was blown out of propor
tion and that Schmidt pressured her husband to plead guilty
by threatening to keep him away from
their child.
The couple’s on-again, ofi-again rela
tionship ended in a legal separation in 1993.
In 1995, Schmidt won custody of her
two daughters. Saavedra received super
vised visits with them until 1997.
But during one of those visits
Schmidt claimed Saavedra raped her in
front of one of their daughters. Saavedra
was charged with spousal rape, but the
charges were dismissed and deemed by
a California court to be false. A court-or
dered mediator granted Saavedra visits
with the children, hut Schmidt did not
agree to the terms, saying there wasn’t
HOUSTON (AP) - Allan'}
based Delta Air Lines annourad
an increase in ticket pricestliis
weekend, following the
Continental Airlines.
Both airlines blamed rising^
fuel costs. Other airlines wereei-
pected to join in the fare hike,M
there was no confirmation Sum.
The specific increments of
Delta's ticket prices werenotan-
nounced, but the increases^
“similar fare to those
nental,” Delta spokeswoman'^
ny Dervin said.
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Debbie Schmidt
Mother
“I can’t trade my freedom for their safety,” Schmidt said.
“How can a mommy give her babies to the beast?”
Saavedra’s lawyer said Schmidt is being unreasonable.
“Jurisdiction is clearly in California because she defied
two court orders by the judge not to take the children out of
the state,” said William Schuckman, Saavedra’s lawyer.
Schmidt believes her flight was justified under a California
law that allows a parent to leave the state if he or she has a “rea
sonable belief" that staying would bring harm to the child.
enough supervision.
In 1997, Schmidt moved her family to Austin, and Saave
dra said he has not seen his children since.
After many legal maneuverings, a California Superior Court
decided Saavedra should have sole custody, citing that Schmidt
had illegally fled the state, had falsely claimed Saavedra raped
her and was alienating the children from their father.
The court did not consider Saavedra’s sexual-assault convic
tion a problem, Schuckman said, because his counselor reported
that he would not be a threat if he abstained from alcohol.
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