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Health Systems Agency demands better care for indigent, pregnant Page 7- DEALER HERALD. WEDMESDAY. DECEMBER 5.1984 by Ronald Porep of PUiadoaler Herald Newt Service within the first trimester pregnancy by 1990. _ The plan also wants 85 percent < w_ Health Systems Agency of of the county's pregnant women Kane, Lake, and McHenry to receive 10 or more prenatal Counties Inc. (HSA-KLM) is demanding that McHenry County townships start to uniformly pay for medical care of the county's indigent and that county hospitals create plans to better serve low-income pregnant women in the county. "McHenry County townships do not uniformly pay for medical care for the indigent and, as elsewhere in Illinois, many dentists and Physicians do not accept Medicaid reim­ bursement." "Further, the county health department has been unable to find sufficient number of Physicians to staff public clinics, therefore primary care for the medically indigent is very limited," accuses the HSA- KLM's Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) for 1985-86. The plan was released for public com­ ment by the agency's Board of Directors during its November meeting. The AIP wants 90 percent of county women delivering babies to be receiving prenatal care Road conditions phone line is in service Once again it is that time of the year when the roads will be covered with snow and ice. To try and make traveling easier for motorists, the Illinois State Police have again set up their weather phones. The road condition reports are prerecorded and up-dated four times a day: 6 a.m.; noon; 4:30 p.m.; and 9:30 p.m., and more often as weather conditions change. Road conditions for the surrounding states are also given: Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky. Those states will be added to the report as weather and road conditions change. For Lake, McHenry, DuPage, Kane and DeKalb counties, the telephone number is: (312) 742- 7642. For the Chicago area, the number is : north (312) 283-6204 ; south: (312) 385-3777, and for the Illinois Tollroads it is (312) 323- 1111. Those numbers will be in service until April, 1985. CHRISTMAS CARDS Persons are asked to save the fronts of attractive, religious Christmas cards and send them to: St. Jude's Ranch for Children, P.O. Box 985, Boulder City, Nevada, 89005-0985. The organiza­ tion is a home for abused and neglected children. The boys and girls recycle old Christmas cards in an unusual project to earn pocket money. McHENRYFLORAL . NOW HAS CHRISTMAS TREES FROM BALSAM WHITE PINE v *12 so SCOTCH PINE NORWAY FIR ^^•CHRISTMAS WREATHS •CHRISTMAS ROPING •CEMETARY WREATHS •CEMETARY BLANKETS r-CHRISTMASHOURSn DAILY 8:30 AM-8PM SATURDAY 8:30 AM-*PM SUNDAY 10AM-4PM JUST ARRIVED! POINSETTIAS ALL SIZES McHENRY FLORAL CO. sot S. RTE 31*McHENRY 385-0404 doctor visits to reduce the precentage of low birthweight infants to four percent or less and the incidence of perinatal mortality to be no higher than 12 births in1 every 1,000 births in any area hospital. "Each county hospital should work with the physicians on its staff to develop a rotating referral system for low income and Medicaid eligible women to insure that each woman receives a minimum of 10 prenatal visits," says the plan. "Hie hospital should also provide continuing education to physicians and radiology staff regarding the use of x-rays on women of childbearing age and the use of potentially harmful medications," is the way the play says its goals can be achieved. The HSA-KLM says this action will be good for the county's poor as well as for the hospitals. "Many medically indigent individuals lack access to primary care services and inappropriately utilize hospital- based services should a cafr dition remain untreated until emergent problems arise." . Fostering access to primary care settings for the medically indigent population will help in cost containment efforts, (avoid) unnecessary utilization of hospital based services (such as emergency rooms) and improve overall access to care by this defined population," concludes the plan. To accomplish this end, the HSA-KLM plan wants the county and county medical institutions to establish a clinic program for the medically indigent at an estimated cost of $40,000 with $34,000 going for personnel and the remainder for equipment, facilities and miscellaneous 20% OFF regarding the AIP will be held in January, according to HSA-KLM officials. Because of the Weddings, Riverside Hairstyling Studio Was closed on Saturday Nov. 24th & Saturday Dec. 1st. We Will not be closed on December 12th. 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