Editor: The below is the good work in deterring the spread of HIV / AIDS and helping addicts to recover that is done by a modestly funded syringe exchange in a city similar to Lancaster. So why does ‘public charity’ Lancaster General Health refuse to help fund the offer by the Urban League to establish a syringe exchange in Lancaster? For the $1,200,000 they paid their president Tom Beeman for the year he served in the Navy they could have funded an exchange for twelve years.
Averaging close to $100 million in ‘profits’ over the past five years, they have plenty of money for executives, whether they work or not, and for expansion, but they turn their backs on their primary mission – public health. Ask your doctor about this.
June 2011 Monthly Report
Twenty-five participants were tested for HIV in June.
June 2011 Report
Total contacts: 397
Total IDU contacts: 326
Total unduplicated IDU contacts: 263
Syringes: 3460
Condoms distributed: Male- 2672, Female-64, Dental Dams-64 Finger Cots-60
Demographics of unduplicated IDU contacts:
African American male: 40
White Male: 45
Latino: 69
African American female: 32
White female: 44
Latina: 33
We completed 283 referrals for various services.
This month, as a result of our 96 total D&A referrals, eleven participants entered into drug treatment facilities. This indicates those of whom we are aware; there may be additional entries of which we are not aware.
LGH should lose their non profit status.