Tuesday, May 04, 1999
Hamilton clinics are forced to close doors
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — Two privately run health care clinics apparently will close — at least for a while — despite a group's efforts to keep them open.
The Healthcare Leadership Group (HLG), which includes health care professionals, local officials and social service providers, agreed Monday to ask the city of Hamilton to accept monetary donations for indigent health care services.
The money would eventually go toward reopening at least one of the clinics under new management — or toward establishing a new, centrally located clinic, said David Ferrell, group chairman and president of Mercy Hospital Hamilton and Fairfield.
The H.A. Long Center and the Joseph Center, which have been run by the nonprofit Lincoln Heights HealthCare Connection, are to close next week because of money problems.
The HLG had been scrambling to find ways to continue providing services from at least one of the locations, but with only 30 days' notice, the group was unable to make all the necessary arrangements.
That means about 5,000 patients who relied on the clinics will be displaced. They are being directed to the city-run East Avenue Clinic, where a physician will be hired to provide routine medical care for adult patients — a service not now offered. The East Avenue clinic offers no dental service, however, and the former Long and Joseph dental patients will have no local service.
Some of the displaced patients may also opt to go to a clinic in Lincoln Heights or Mount Healthy, both of which are also operated by the Lincoln Heights HealthCare Connection, if they can find transportation, officials said.
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