The People's Hearing on Grady

The Grady Coalition is sponsoring
The People's Hearing on Grady
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Grady Hospital's
Steiner Auditorium
6pm to 8pm

All Grady employees, patients and concerned community members need to attend this hearing to speak out and make a plan to make sure that Grady stays open and is properly funded.

We Are ALL Grady!

Did you know? (What the AJC Won't tell you)

• The State DECREASED Grady’s funding this year by $60 million?
• Charity care at Grady INCREASED by $73 million this year?
• County funding has essentially unchanged for years..it’s been FLAT?
• Over 25% of Georgia’s doctors are trained at Grady?
• 900,00 patients visit Grady annually?
• Grady has the largest outpatient dialysis unit in the State?
• Grady is THE hospital when it comes to emergency preparedness (biological and natural disaster)?

Grady has $133 million LESS this year while the number of uninsured continues to climb. The Grady Board is not the problem The problem is the MONEY!

The surrounding counties that utilize Grady need to PAY THEIR BILLS to Grady.

The STATE of GEORGIA which uses Grady as THE Safety Net Health System for all of Georgia needs to FUND GRADY!!

Fulton and Dekalb Counties cannot and should not have to foot the bill for Grady. The Governor and the State Legislature needs to support our Grady Safety Net.
We Are ALL Grady!