George S. Goldstein, Health Care Administrator, Records regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, 1950/1996

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West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
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Morgantown, WV 26506
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George S. Goldstein, Health Care Administrator, Records regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, A&M 3285, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
28.13 Linear Feet 28 ft. 1.5 in. (22 records cartons, 15 in. each); (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 document case, 2.5 in.)
Creator:
Goldstein, George S.
Abstract:
Records of Dr. George S. Goldstein, a health care administrator who worked in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal fields. Dr. Goldstein's work concerned the Appalachian coalfield medical care system, especially in terms of the role played by the United Mine Workers of America and its health and retirement fund.
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], George S. Goldstein, Health Care Administrator, Records regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, A&M 3285, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Records of Dr. George S. Goldstein, a health care administrator who worked in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal fields. Dr. Goldstein's work concerned the Appalachian coalfield medical care system, especially in terms of the role played by the United Mine Workers of America and its health and retirement fund.

This collection consists of correspondence, legal records, publications, research papers, oral history sound recordings, and other material on miners health care, prepaid medical group practices, and health care reform. There is much documentation, including legal records, on the operation of the Bellaire clinic and the issues surrounding it, most notably the case of James E. Sams, which established that hospitals could not deny privileges based on a physican's practice arrangements.

Papers of the Medical Foundation of Bellaire and its medical staff organized as the Bellaire Medical Group. Includes papers of the hospital privileges court case of Dr. James E. Sams and also the papers of the regional organization of clinics, the Associatied Clinics of Appalachia.

Papers regarding the Bellaire clinic in a federal program to create health centers for the poor. Includes papers on U.S. Congressman Wayne Hays (Ohio Democrat) investigating the program.

Includes Goldstein's appointment books, Bellaire materials, and UMWA news releases.

Papers from the efforts of U.S. Senator Harris Wofford (Pennsylvania Democrat) to generate reform of the American healthcare system.

Papers of the Medical Foundation of Bellaire and of its medical staff organized as the Bellaire Medical Group, and papers of a Pennsylvania UMWA supported clinic medical staff organized under the Miners Clinic of New Kensington.

Records of the Russellton Medical Group (RMG) including the papers of a Pennsylvania UMWA supported clinic medical staff organized under the Miners Clinic of New Kensington.

Class notes and material used by Goldstein to teach classes at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and papers about reforming the American healthcare system.

Rsearch material created and compiled by Goldstein for the purpose of authoring a book on the history of the UMWA Health & Retirement Fund, including notes on the demise of the HMO of Western (PA) Pennsylvania. Includes oral history material.

Statements and Research Papers (includes writings by Goldstein regarding health care policy that were delivered at conferences or to governmental bodies). This addendum is minimally processed.

Biographical / historical:

George S. Goldstein (1919-1996) was a health care administrator and historian. He was executive director of the Medical Foundation of Bellaire in Bellaire, Ohio from 1956 to 1980, a clinic serving the UMWA and later federal programs to assist the poor. One of the early coalfield clinics, the Foundation offered multi-specialty physician care and ancillary services on a private, non-profit, community controlled basis.

After retiring in 1980 he taught University of Pittsburgh classes on health system reform and related issues from 1981 to 1995. He officially came out of retirement to become executive director of the Miners Clinic of New Kensington in New Kensington, Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1987, a clinic similar to the Medical Foundation of Bellaire.

From 1980 until his death in 1996, Goldstein researched the history of the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, the medical/pension trust which helped bring such clinics as Bellaire and New Kensington into existence and sustained them for a generation. The work was left incomplete.

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West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: West Virginia & Regional History Center
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