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Community Forum to Discuss "Abject Failure" of New Cooper Green Healthcare System Set May 21
The leader of Jefferson County’s largest physicians group will speak at a community forum about why the new indigent healthcare system at Cooper Green is failing poor patients and how it could increase everyone’s healthcare costs.
The forum is set for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the Five Points West Public Library (4812 Avenue W, Birmingham, AL 35208), across from the Birmingham CrossPlex Sports Center.
Dr. Gregory Ayers, president-elect of the Jefferson County Medical Society, will discuss his group’s recent open letter strongly criticizing the current system and proposals to fix what’s been broken since the County Commission voted to end in-patient care and emergency room services at Cooper Green Hospital on Dec. 31.
Dr. Mark Wilson, head of the Jefferson County Department of Health, is also a featured speaker at the forum.
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The Class of '63 "Prom We Never Had" Tonight
The simple thought of freedom, to live as fully as any white American (or human being, for that matter), is what motivated thousands of black schoolchildren and others to take to the streets in the historic 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Movement in early May 1963.
“It was simple things like this that sparked our imagination and made us want to march,” says Brenda P. Hong, who left Western-Olin High School with hundreds of other students in May 1963.
But Hong and other students who marched paid a heavy price for participation in the Movement: school officials expelled them and cancelled black schools’ prom. The punishment for participation was devastating at a time in black society when graduation was a source of great community pride, and the prom was a highly important rite of passage.
Tonight, she and other '63 classmates will host "The Prom We Never Had." (see Sherrel Stewart’s excellent article in The Root)
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