Ohio
Ohio Information
Contact Information
PNHP Ohio
Website: http://www.pnhpohio.org/
Blog: http://pnhpohio.blogspot.com/
Single-Payer Action Network, Ohio
Website: http://www.spanohio.org/
E-mail: SPANHealthCare@aol.com
Health Care for All Ohio
http://healthcareforallohio.org/
Media Contact
Johnathon Ross
(419) 536-3879
drjohnross@ameritech.net
Dr. Johnathon Ross is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, a national health reform group with over 14,000 members (PNHP). He is a graduate of Cornell University and received his medical degree in 1975 from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. In addition to his medical degree, he has a master’s degree in health policy and administration from the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Toledo and currently practices and teaches general internal medicine at St Vincent Mercy Medical Center, a 500 bed center city teaching hospital in Toledo, Ohio. He has served as a family physician in a small rural community in upstate New York as a member of the National Health Service Corps. He has served as medical director for several organizations including: a local industrial medicine concern, the local visiting nurse service, a charitable HMO established by his Catholic hospital system and currently a center city adult medical clinic. He has served as chairman of the department of Internal Medicine at St. Vincent. He has been a member of the executive committee of medical staff of St Vincent, a board member of its PHO, and as chairman of several committees of the hospital, the HMO and the PHO focused on quality improvement. He has served as a member of the Ohio State Medical Board and helped to establish the educational requirements and scope of practice for licensed physician assistants in Ohio. His experience inside the health insurance industry convinced him of the logic and need for a national health insurance program.
Alice Faryna | 614, 249-2667 | alicyna@yahoo.com
Dr. Faryna is certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. She has 40 years of experience including private practice, Neighborhood health centers, the VA. Associate professsor of Medicine at the Wright State University School of Medicine (now the Boonshoft School of Medicine) for 14 years, and 8 years as Medical Director for Medicare Part B, Ohio and West Virginia
Andrei Vermont
216.491.7004
vermonta@yahoo.com
Dr. Vermont is a Radiologist who completed his post graduate training at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution. He now practices in the Cleveland Clinic and has taught on the faculty of SUNY University Hospital, University of North Carolina, Michigan State University, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Mary Jo Groves
937-215-6940
mjgroves1@gmail.com
Dr. Groves received her training at Ohio University, and Ohio State University, with clinical honors in internal medicine, OB/GYN, pediatrics and psychiatry. She is Board certified in family practice, and a Fellow, American Academy of Family Practice. She currently is the Director of Community Mercy Urgent Care in Springfield.
Thomas (Tom) Pretlow
216.368.8700
tgp3@cwcru.edu
Dr. Pretlow is Professor in the Departments of Pathology, Oncology, Urology, and Environmental Health Sciences at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Since becoming Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Pretlow has spent a year or more on the faculties at Harvard, Stanford, and Case Western Reserve. He was Visiting Professor for a year at the Dana Farber Cancer Center at Harvard.
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Lorain, OH
- Oberlin, OH
- Lorain County, OH
- Single-Payer Action Network (SPAN), Ohio
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- USWA Local 1375, Warren, OH
- Division 4, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), Rail Conference, IBT, Toledo, OH
- Lorain County AFL-CIO Federation of Labor, Lorain, OH
- Cleveland AFL-CIO Retiree Council, Cleveland, OH
- Toledo Area Jobs with Justice, Toledo, OH
- Ashtabula AFL-CIO Retiree Council, Ashtabula, OH
- Ashtabula AFL-CIO Labor Council, Ashtabula, OH
- Cleveland Painters District Council 6 Retiree Council, Cleveland, OH
- AFSCME Retirees, Chapter 1184, Sub-Chapter 109, Northwest Ohio
- Cleveland AFL-CIO Federation of Labor, Cleveland, OH
- Ohio State Legislative Board, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET), Rail Conference, IBT, Columbus, OH
- Toledo Area AFL-CIO Council, Toledo, OH
- Dayton, Springfield, Sidney, Miami Valley AFL-CIO Regional Labor Council, Dayton, OH
- Local 50, Plumbers and Steamfitters, United Association (UA), Northwood, OH
- Ohio AFL-CIO, July 19, 2006, at Convention in Cincinnati
- Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA), State Convention, September 2006
- Ohio Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR)
- Local 546M, Graphic Communications Conference, GCC/IBT, Cleveland, OH
- Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Council
- International Association of Machinists and Aerspace Workers (IAMAW) District Lodge 34
December 20, 2008
A genuine cure for our health care woes
By Johnathon S. Ross | Toledo Blade
With new leadership in place, America can end a national disgrace. Forty-six million of our friends, family and neighbors have no health care coverage at all. The Institute of Medicine estimates that over 18,000 Americans die each year from lack of health insurance alone. Tens of millions more risk bankruptcy because they have bare-bones insurance. Our troubled economy will only worsen this sad situation.
July 23, 2008
Health-care matchup finds Ohio falls short
By David Knox | Beacon Journal staff writer
To explore how Ohio compares to the nation and the world, the Beacon Journal looked 60 miles across Lake Erie to the Canadian province of Ontario. How does Ohio measure up to its neighbor?
April 7, 2008
National health care rising in popularity
By JOHNATHON ROSS | Toledo Blade | Op-Ed
This past week, researchers at Indiana University published an important new study that reveals a growing consensus among medical professionals on a path forward. Reflecting a shift in thinking over the past five years among U.S. physicians, a solid majority of doctors, 59 percent, now support national health insurance.
September 10, 2007
Worker-friendly candidates needed in November
Mike Carroll | Mansfield News Journal
After a wonderful Labor Day weekend I got to wondering what would happen if all workers would demand something be done about the health care crisis we face in this country. How long would it take for our elected leaders to fix this problem if faced with the possibility of losing their positions?
August 8th, 2007
Single-payer healthcare advocate Johnathon Ross M.D., M.P.H. takes a local look at the national HMO crisis
by Johnathon S. Ross, M.D. | Toledo City Paper
Every day in the St. V’s clinic, I see a near miss. Every week I see a wounding. Every month or so I see a death due to a sickness care non-system that leaves 50,000 Lucas County citizens, more than a million Ohioans, more than 45 million Americans uninsured, and all of us unsure if healthcare will be there for us if we need it.