May 7, 1998
Insuring a Healthy Future?
Medical charities merge affiliates to cut costs, but some chapters rebel
Mississippi is the nation's poorest state and one full of people in desperate need of medical care, a predicament that binds charity executives Teresa Humphrey and Mary D. Fortune in a common cause.
Ms. Humphrey is executive director of the Mississippi affiliate of the American Heart Association, a job that puts her on the front lines of fighting the highest statewide rate of death from cardiovascular
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