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 didn’t have any either.  Just make sure I get the severence package that Pam Stephenson got from Grady, or Richard J. McCrillis got from [...]

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 her within the first year, she would be paid the remaining amount in the two-year contract. Should she leave in September, that could [...]

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 late last month. Police believe the man, Tacuma Jawara, 54, of Atlanta is on the run and avoiding capture.Jawara is a social [...]

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 a year, said he is negotiating with Grady.
The issue may focus on whether Story was fired for good reason and whether the Grady [...]

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 quickly. Some commissioners said they learned about it when they read it in 1he Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In addition, the AJC has obtained a copy of an internal [...]

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 position will be filled temporarily by the board’s chairwoman, state Rep. Pam Stephenson.
Stephenson took over Tuesday and immediately met with staff.
The decision to fire Story [...]

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.

On Grady’s restructuring plan.

Interesting look at Grady’s ties to Morehouse and Emory.
Fifty years ago, Dr. Nanette Wenger came to Grady Memorial Hospital with a degree from Harvard Medical School and a new husband. Today, she’s a professor at Emory, a nationally recognized cardiologist —- and still a Grady doctor.
On a recent winter day, as she darted between examination [...]

“Fulton commission refuses Grady $99M in funding”, the ACJ headline reads.
Fulton County Commissioners today refused Grady Memorial Hospital’s request for $99.2 million in 2008 —cash hospital officials said was desperately needed to keep the ailing hospital afloat.
Instead, the board agreed to $80 million, plus $5 million in reserve funding if Grady meets certain management goals.
The [...]

A Grady deal.

Grady hospital board members and Atlanta business leaders are days away from striking a deal on a sweeping leadership change, a vital step in saving the financially strapped medical center, a lead negotiator said Thursday.
Pressured by business leaders, the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority, which runs Grady, voted in November to hand over daily management [...]

The AJC has the details.
A proposed lease transferring management of Grady Memorial Hospital to a private, nonprofit corporation requires the new board to break even within six years while maintaining Grady’s historic mission to care for the poor.
According to a cover memo, officials have until today to comment on the draft document, prepared by the [...]

That would make it easy.

Emory University’s $2 billion makeover of its health-care campus has been put on hold as the institution takes another crack at the plan and mulls a third site for the project.
The school’s 42-acre Clairmont campus also has been added to the blueprint, which proposes a replacement or expansion of Emory University [...]

This might be the best approach to solve the trauma problem.
Richardson said motor vehicle accidents account for some 70 percent of trauma injuries so it makes sense to have drivers them bear the burden.
Richardson said the proposal would tack on an extra $10 fee on vehicle tag renewals. It also would slap steep fines on [...]

This would be bad news.
As if things weren’t bad enough for the financially strapped Grady Health System, now the hospital faces a list of criticisms, including issues with patient care, that put its national accreditation at risk.
In a five-day inspection last week, the Joint Commission