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m • • . ; , . / 1 •• •.rn r̂sri-.;yf.-Tr 1 -- ; 1 ' " ~ -- " ----~ ~ ~~~ * Doctors Join Several new doctors have joined the staff of Memorial Hospital. They include Dr. John H Burcal, pediatr ician; Dr Michael C Vidas, otolaryngologist, Dr George L Yao, obstetr ics/gynecology, Dr Concepion DyReyes, obstet- r ics/gynecology; Dr. Robin Purdy, family practice, and Dr Richard Lind, vascular and general surgery Dr. Burcal has joined the Kishwaukee Valley Medical Group, Woodstock He obtained his medical education at Wayne State University medical school in Detroit, Michigan in 1980. He completed his internship and residency at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago in June, 1983. Dr. Yao received his medical education at the Univer­ sity of Santo Tomas in Manila in 1963. Afteran internship at*St. John's Episcopal Hospital at Brooklyn, N Y.in 1964, he had residencies in obstetr ics/gynecology from 1965 to iyby at bt. John's Hospital. He was director of the OB/GYN department from 1981 to the present before moving to this area. Dr. Concepion DyReyes completed her medical education at the University of Santo Thomas in Manila in 1963. She had her internship at Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1964-65, then had residencies at St John's Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn in obstetr ics .and gynecology. She has established her practice in Woodstock at the Woodstock Medical Center. While at St John's Episcopal Hospital she was the physician in charge of a young Medical Staff t mothers cl inic for six years She became director of the obstetr ics and gynecology department in 1976, respon­ sible for al l services rendered by the department Since 1978 she has served as associate director of ambulatory care at St John's. . Dr Vidas obtained his medical education at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and interned in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia from 1980 unti l he began his practice in McHenry earl ier this year with Dr Ted Rolander Dr Purdy, an osteopathic physician, has opened the Woodstock Family Practice Center in the building adjacent to the hospital at 523 West South street He completed a three-year residency at West Suburban Hospital 's Family Practice Center at Oak Park fol lowing his medical education He attended the Drake University College of Pharmacy in 1977 He'completed his medical training as a doctor of osteopathy in 1980 at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery at Des Moines, Iowa. > Dr Lind, whose specialty is vascular and general surgery, has opened an Off ice in Crystal Lake at 451 Coventry Green.. Dr Lind completed a year s fel lowship at the University of Iowa Hospital at Iowa City, special izing in vascular surgery He obtained his Bachelor s degree at the University of I l l inois and his medical degree at Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago Editorials Criticize Actions Relating to Hospitals Recent editorials in the two major Chicago newspapers support the hospital industry's view regarding the f inancial burden placed on hospitals by the I l l inois Department of Public Aid's new S500 cei l ing on General Assistance patients. The Tribune headlined its editorial: "A sneaky law hits hospitals." Asserted the Tribune: A mean-spir i ted bi l l is making it harder for poor people on general assistance care to get hospital care. It is also a sneaky way to impose what is in effect a hidden new tax on other hospital patients and those who pay health insurance premiums. "The legislat ion sets a l imit of $500 on how much the state wil l pay hospitals for treating a patient receiving general assistance, no matter how high the hospital bi l l real ly is. "Attempts by federal and state governments to hold down Medicaid and Medicare costs have already put hospitals in a t ightening f inancial bind. Neither program reimburses hospitals ful ly for their costs. Hospitals have been increasingly shift ing extra costs to private pay patients who pay their own bi l ls or to the companies which insure them That is a major reason why hospital bi l ls -- and health insurance premiums -- have been increasing so sharply Now even more cost shift ing wil l occur as a result of the General Assembly action." The Sun-Times editorial ly stresses the shift , saying state legislators ' take pride in keeping the recent tax increase to an "absolute minimum" but they don't say they accomplished this part ly by shift ing costs to a lower level of government. After cit ing much of the data the Tribune used to cri t icize the legislat ion, the Sun-Times concluded "The cost wil l be passed on to county taxpayers, probably in higher property, cigarette or l iquor taxes That's f ine with state poli t icians because they don't get blamed We shouldn't have been surprised that state poli t icians are shift ing costs to a lower level of govern­ ment They've watched federal pol ls do it for two years." -10-