Grady Moving Forward
With their new plan. We’ll see how well they can keep this thing moving forward. I think they are headed in the right direction, but do have some concerns about the viability of the plan.
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Grady fires its CEO and hires a legislator with zero experience to run the hospital. The Grady hospital board ousted Grady chief executive Otis Story Monday night, effective immediately, and his...
View ArticleGrady fix delayed….again
Fulton and DeKalb weren’t aware their approval was needed: Several Fulton and DeKalb commissioners said Grady officials only recently alerted them that their approval is needed, and they are moving...
View ArticleCan Grady Be Any More Inept
You’d have thought they’d think of this. The fired CEO of cash-strapped Grady Memorial Hospital said the facility owes him $2 million in severance pay. A lawyer for Otis Story, who was earning $600,000...
View ArticleGrady Staffer Comes Up With Unique Way To Make Up Budget Shortfall
Steal the patient’s jewelry! Atlanta police got an arrest warrant Wednesday for a Grady Memorial Hospital employee they believe took wedding and engagement rings from a woman who died in a car crash...
View ArticleGrady = Macon
That should be the new meme! Grady Hospital equals Macon, GA. Both get out negotiated. Stephenson’s contract, with an annual salary of $600,000, stipulates that should the new hospital board replace...
View ArticleI Want A Job Running Any Authority In DeKalb, Fulton, Or Atlanta
Any Job. Really, it doesn’t matter which one. Marta, Grady, heck, put me in charge of sanitation. I don’t care. Don’t worry about my qualifications, because the person I’m replacing apparently...
View ArticleGrady tries again with another CEO
The money vacuum that is Grady Hospital is about to have another Captain at the helm. For her part, [Lisa] Borders said she planned to spread the message that Grady is “an incredible resource and...
View ArticleI’m Trying To Understand The Logic That Causes You To Reach The Conclusion...
And I only mean that with half of the sarcasm that the headline may express. I pretend to be an expert on many things. One area that I do not attempt this is our bizarre and complex system of health...
View ArticleEmory University forgives $20 million in Grady Hospital debt
From this story in the Emory Wheel (admittedly from a few days ago): Despite tight economic conditions, Emory will forgive $20 million of the $62 million that Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the...
View ArticleSweet! Here’s another good reason to head to Grady Memorial Hospital when...
“Grady Memorial Hospital officials are investigating a spike in Legionnaires’ disease. Four patients who were recently hospitalized at Grady have contracted the bacterial infection in the past month,...
View ArticleUgh.
Not good. Water tests confirmed Thursday that two units at Grady Memorial Hospital were the source of the bacteria that caused Legionnaires’ disease in four of the facility’s patients. “We’re...
View ArticleGrady back in the news
And it is again not for something good. A package containing confidential medical records sent via UPS to an address on Canterbury Lane in Lawrenceville ended up at the same street address only in...
View Article“Mayor Of Buckhead” Not Keen On Milton
Sam Massell, president of the Buckhead Coalition and former Mayor of Atlanta, has decided to weigh in on the proposed split of Milton County from Fulton with a “No” vote. After Massell was defeated for...
View ArticleMarta Gets The Grady Treatment
A couple of years ago, when Grady Hospital’s financial troubles could no longer be ignored even by suburban Republicans, a series of compromises was made on all sides to place Grady on tenable...
View ArticleAmendment Two: It’s For The Children
Per the request of several commenters, we’ll open a discussion of Amendment 2. This amendment would allow the state to tax an extra $10 every year for every car tag you buy. Notice the word tax....
View ArticleRegional Solutions v. Local Interests: Why T-SPLOST is now T-LOST
The issue that may ultimately doom the statewide T-SPLOST is the clash between the need for regional planning and the ultimate self-interest of rational voters. An economically-rational voter might...
View ArticleHow Should Georgia Pay for Indigent Healthcare?
The New York Times on Saturday published a page A-1 story about how uninsured Georgians will have more difficulty getting healthcare after the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) kicks in in January....
View ArticleSB9 To Address Blue Cross Blue Shield And Grady Dispute
Transportation has received most of the headlines going into the session with respect to budget pressure and needs. Yet another topic has occupied state legislators, budget writers, and policy...
View ArticleBill Requiring Access By State Employees to Trauma Centers and Critical...
A subcomittee of the House Judiciary – Non Civil Committee amended and advanced a bill that would require insurers providing services to the State Health Benefit Plan to treat all level 1 trauma...
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