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Six months after the Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti on Monday recognized the contributions to its recovery made by former president and U.N. special envoy Bill Clinton, giving him a medal. With Clinton are Haitian President René Préval, center, and actor Sean Penn, also an honoree.
Grants aim to bolster health-care ranks
Workforce diversity funding to benefit programs at Howard
by Darryl Fears
It is a sign of the economic times: Nursing students at How- ard University work part-time jobs and still cannot keep up with tuition. “We have experi- enced good students having to withdraw from the program be- cause of lack of resources. When parents lose jobs, students can’t continue,” said Mary Hill, associ- ate dean in the school’s division of nursing. At the start of the month, the game changed. Howard received $1.5 million from the Obama ad- ministration to train student nurses and others in sciences
such as radiology and occupa- tional therapy. The award was a fraction of $96 million in grants doled out by the Department of Health and Human Services on July 1 to hundreds of health- profession programs at colleges and universities nationwide. The money is especially in- tended to increase the racial di- versity of the health-care work- force by keeping minority stu- dents in health classes, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. Reports have esti- mated that the average nursing student leaves school with nearly $50,000 in loan debt. “The health professions work- force in the United States does not reflect the population it serves,” Sebelius said. “These funds will help support the edu- cation of disadvantaged students who are more likely to go on to serve in underserved areas.” A 2008 report by the Council
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on Physician and Nurse Supply said schools would have to pro- duce 30,000 nurses annually to offset a shortage as well as a looming mass retirement of nurses, 45 percent of whom are 50 or older. A 2007 report by the American Hospital Association said 116,000 nurses were needed to fill registered-nurse vacancies in hospitals. Minority representation in the health professions has grown at a snail’s pace since 1980. Among registered nurses, for example, the percentage of African Amer- icans and Hispanics falls far short of their percentage of the population, according to the
2008 National Sample of Regis- tered Nurses.
African Americans represent 5 percent of registered nurses and 12 percent of the population. His- panics represent about 4 percent of registered nurses and 15 per- cent of the population. Asian Americans fall short, too, with 3 percent of registered nurses and nearly 6 percent of the popula- tion. The sample said that the 83 percent of nurses who are white far exceeds their population rep- resentation — 66 percent. The grants are needed “be- cause health care does not have large numbers of underrepre- sented students,” Hill said. That is a problem because members of minorities have said in surveys that they are more comfortable with health professionals who are familiar with their culture, and the more comfortable they are, the more they return for treatment before their condi- tions worsen. “There are too few white nurs- es who understand these cul- tures,” said Betty Smith Wil- liams, president emeritus of the National Coalition of Ethnic Mi- nority Nurse Associations. Wil- liams said she was the first black nurse to teach at a major Califor- nia university, and subsequently became an assistant dean of nursing at the University of Cali- fornia at Los Angeles and the University of Colorado at Boul- der. “Traditional universities don’t
have the role models and the sen- sitivities to recruit and train mi- nority students. They always
come to us, and we have to help fill the void,” Williams said. “We recruit through networking, ca- maraderie and relationships de- veloped at our conventions.” Howard and two other histor- ically black schools, the More- house School of Medicine in At- lanta and the Meharry Medical College in Nashville, were recent- ly cited in a study as the universi- ties that produce the largest per- centage of primary-care physi- cians who practice in areas where health workers are scarce. Howard has 1,100 students en- rolled in the College of Pharma- cology, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and keeping them there during the economic slump is an uncertainty. When Hill learned that HHS was of- fering grants, she grabbed an ap- plication and submitted it on the June 1 deadline. “This is the larg- est grant for scholarships that the college has received,” she said.
Still, said Norma Martinez
Rogers, president of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, it is not enough. “Ninety-six mil- lion sounds like a lot, but in real- ity it’s not a lot,” she said. “I think it’s a step in the right direction. But I think we need more men- tors, more programs, more fund- ing. “There’s such a shortage of
Hispanic nurses that they’re bringing Filipino nurses to places like South Texas. But Fili- pinos don’t know our culture. . . . We must encourage our people to go to school and become nurses.”
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campaign for more “coordination and discipline” in the military’s public statements — and everything seems to be going according to plan. On Monday, six months after
the earthquake in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people, the Pentagon hosted a “Bloggers Roundtable” teleconference to release some coordinated and disciplined information about reconstruction in that country. The commander of the U.S. military’s task force in Haiti and his deputies delivered some news that should satisfy Gates’s wish to have only varnished information coming from the Defense Department. “Incredible humanitarian
efforts” are underway in Haiti, where “significant progress” has been made and “a great effort” has been mounted, reporters were told. “The U.S. forces here in Haiti are doing a tremendous job,” said the commander, Col. Michael Borrel, and “we are doing some very tangible things here in Haiti and truly helping the people of Haiti.” And what are these incredible and tremendous things? Well, the U.S. military is building four — count ’em, four — schools for the Haitians. Each has two or three rooms and comes with a similar number of latrine stalls. Oh, and the work is concentrated in an area that wasn’t directly affected by the earthquake. “Are you aware of any other American units in Haiti who are helping with rubble removal or relocating people into
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010 The sad math of U.S. aid in Haiti: 6 months, 2 percent
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permanent structures?” one of the participants in the teleconference asked. “I am not,” Borrel replied. “Currently, we’re the only U.S. military force that is in Haiti.” This is not to belittle the
efforts of Borrel and his 550 troops, who are honorably executing the mission they were assigned. But the paltry scale of the Pentagon’s reconstruction endeavor — 1.6 million people displaced and the American military is contributing a few classrooms? — is emblematic of the international response, which seems to have stalled at about 2 percent of what it needs to be.
Only 2 percent of promised reconstruction aid has been delivered. Only 2 percent of the rubble has been cleared. And not quite 2 percent of the dislocated have been moved into housing. Others live under fraying tarps and tents in a situation that Bill Clinton, spearheading the reconstruction campaign, calls “horribly frustrating.” Obama administration
officials and aid groups point out, correctly, that much of the holdup comes from the Haitian government, which had little competence even before the quake. But that doesn’t diminish the human misery in Haiti,
documented in the many six- months-later reports in the media. “There are camps on median strips of roads; there are camps on very steep hills,” Sam Worthington, chief executive of the aid organization InterAction, said at a Haiti conference held Monday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “I’ve witnessed two football/soccer fields with 5,000 people living on them.” President Obama, meeting in
the Oval Office on Monday with the president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, ignored a reporter’s question about the pace of the rebuilding efforts. In Foggy Bottom, State
Department officials observed the six-month mark by briefing reporters on what spokesman P.J. Crowley called the “enormous response” to the disaster. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, described the successful efforts to prevent starvation and large- scale disease. “I take your point about the food situation seems stabilized, the medical situation the same,” one of the reporters pointed out. “But it seems like the real urgent problem right now is housing.”
Haiti honors Clinton for earthquake assistance
“There’s a lot more that has to be done,” State Department counselor Cheryl Mills allowed. “We really need to be on a pacing of building a fair number of these transitional houses a month, and we’re not on a pace yet to do that.” The military isn’t even trying to pick up the pace. After its heavy response to the earthquake, the Pentagon is devoting all of $1.7 million for its “New Horizons-Haiti” mission to build schools and a few medical facilities. A reporter on the Pentagon’s teleconference asked why the mission was concentrated in northern Haiti, outside the earthquake zone. “With over a million Haitians still without even a temporary shelter, why are we conducting the mission in the Gonaives area, when there are so many people in the earthquake-stricken zone that could use the support?” Borrel explained that “there are many, as you are well aware, nongovernmental organizations working in the Port-au-Prince area.” “It seems like the more pressing tasks right now are rubble removal and moving people from their tarps into more permanent structures,” another questioner pointed out. “Is this something you plan to do?” “No, it’s not,” Borrel said. After the four schools and 10 “med- ready” sites are built, “we will redeploy back to the home station. Our mission is only till the 18th of September.” Seems Haiti may be stuck at
2 percent for a while longer.
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