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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.

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Associated Clinics of Appalachia
• Bellaire Medical Group
• Berret, T. J.
• Coal miners - Medical care.
• Community health centers.
• Goldstein, George S.
• Group Health Association of America
• Health Maintenance Organization of Western Pennsylvania.
• Health maintenance organizations
• Health services.
• Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
• Kerr, Lorin E., 1909-
• Medical Foundation of Bellaire, Ohio
• Medicine
• Newdrop, John M.D.
• Paradise, Jack L.
• Russellton Medical Group
• United Mine Workers of America
• United States. Office of Economic Opportunity
• Wofford, Harris

Abbreviations

Alphabetical list of abbreviations, with the words they represent, as found in the contents list to this collection, A&M.3285:

AARP - American Association of Retired People.
ACA - Associated Clinics of Appalachia.
AMA - American Medical Association.
BCOA - Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Bd. - Board.
BMG - Bellaire Medical Group.
CA - California.
CHC - Community Health Centers.
CLEAR - Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Colorado.
CMU - Carnegie Mellon University.
CO - Colorado.
Co. - County
C.P.A. - Certified Public Accountant
DC - Washington, District of Columbia.
Dem. - Democrat
Dir. - Director.
Dirs. - Directors.
FSO - Field Service Office of UMWA.
FTC - U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
GAO - U.S. Government Accounting Office.
GHAA - Group Health Association of America.
GHP - Group Health Plan.
GPPP - Group Personal Pension Plan.
GSPH - Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.
HCFA - Health Care for All.
HEW - U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
HIO - Health Insuring Organization.
HMC - Health Management Cooperative.
HMO - Health Maintenance Organization.
HMO of Western PA - HMO of Western Pennsylvania. Inc. - Incorporated.
HSMHA - U.S. Health Service and Mental Health Administration
KY - Kentucky
LU - Local Union
MA - Massachusetts MCAP - Managed Care Association of Pennsylvania.
MCI - Miners Clinics Inc.
MD - Maryland.
M.D. - Medical Doctor.
MFB - Medical Foundation of Bellaire.
MGMA - Medical Group Management Association.
MN - Minnesota.
MSA - Medical Savings Account.
NC - North Carolina.
NCHSR - National Center for Health Services Research.
NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities.
NHC - Neighborhood Health Center.
NLRB - National Labor Relations Board.
NY - New York.
NYC - New York City.
OEO - Office of Economic Opportunity.
OH - Ohio.
PA - Pennsylvania.
PHP - Preferred Health Plan.
Pitt. - Pittsburgh.
RMG - Russellton Medical Group.
R.N. - Registered Nurse
RWJF - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Soc. - Society
U. - University.
U. of CO - U. of Colorado.
UK - Great Britain (United Kingdom).
UMWA or UMW - United Mine Workers of America or United Mine Workers.
UMWA H & R - UMWA Health & Retirement Fund.
UMWA W & R - UMWA Welfare & Retirement Fund.
UNC - University of North Carolina.
U. of Pitt. - University of Pittsburgh.
U.S. or U.S.A. - United States or United States of America.
USWA - United Steel Workers of America.
UT - Utah.
WV - West Virginia.
WVU - West Virginia University.