NEWS CONFERENCE 649

Named to the Special Ad Hoc Health Committee are the following:

Dr. Russell A. Nelson-Chairman: President, The Johns Hopkins
Hospital.

Mr. Francis X. Gallagher - Vice Chairman: Baltimore Attorney.

Dr. William S. Spicer: Chairman, State Board of Health and Mental
Hygiene.

Dr. Abel Wolman: Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. James Rouse: President, The Rouse Company.

Dr. Aris Alien: Annapolis physician and member of the Maryland
House of Delegates.

Mr. Robert H. Levi: Chairman of the Board, The Hecht Company.

Mr. F. Barton Harvey: Managing Partner, Alex Brown & Sons.

Mr. Walter Sondheim: Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Hoch-
schild Kohn.

Dr. Albin O. Kuhn: Chancellor of the Baltimore Campuses, Uni-
versity of Maryland.

Delegate Rosalie Silber Abrams: Baltimore City (Fifth District).

Dr. Russell S. Fisher: Chief Medical Examiner.

Judge Frank A. Kaufman: Judge of the Federal District Court.

Senator Harry R. Hughes: Caroline County (Upper Shore).

Dr. Robert W. Gibson: Medical Director, The Sheppard and Enoch
Pratt Hospital.

2. The Special Ad Hoc Health Committee is charged with the fol-
lowing objectives:

a. To verify and to modify where necessary the assumptions
and the delineation of the problem as set forth in this statement.

b. To recommend to the Governor and Legislature a perma-
nent State organizational structure adequate to meet present demands
and flexible enough to cope with anticipated future needs.

c. To recommend to the Governor within 90 days solutions
to the following critical and specific problems:

(1) The establishment of reasonable hospital cost control.

(2) The crisis of the Maryland Medically-Indigent Health
Care Program, which under present conditions must
terminate on June 30, 1968.

(3) The lack of flexibility in the Federal participation in
Medicaid. How can State and Federal contributions co-
operate to develop the best and most efficient service?