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DEL.ICIO.USDocuments on the Grady-Emory-Morehouse issue
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here’s a look at two documents relative to the brouhaha over Grady Memorial Hospital and its relationship with Emory University School of Medicine — both wrapped up by this weekend piece on ajc.com.
The issue could heat up on Wednesday, when a special House committee on Grady meets. On Friday, state Rep. Sharon Cooper (R-Cobb County) requested an audit of state funds flowing to Grady, Emory and Morehouse — the other medical school that uses Grady to train its physicians.
First, we offer the press release issued by Emory on Saturday, which quotes Dr. Michael M.E. Johns, executive vice president for health affairs: “Any claim that the Emory-Grady contract is written to the advantage of Emory and the disadvantage of Grady ignores a great deal of available evidence and does not even pass the test of common sense.”
The university also said it welcomes the audit requested by Cooper.
Perhaps more politically significant is this resolution now under consideration by the DeKalb County Commission. Republicans in the state Capitol, chiefly but not solely state Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth), have raised questions about the 30-year contract that binds the two institutions, describing it as one-sided in Emory’s favor.
But the GOP concerns had gained little resonance among black Democrats. The DeKalb resolution indicates this might be changing. The sponsors of the resolution are Commissioners Connie Stokes, a former state senator, and Larry Johnson, both African-American. Stokes was a floor leader for Gov. Roy Barnes.
The resolution advocates that:
“The agreements between the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority, Emory University and Morehouse College be amended to reduce the payments made by the Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority to those institutions to reflect the in-kind benefits those institutions receive by using Grady Hospital as a training ground for their students.”
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By clueless AJC
September 17, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this
Who’s writing this stuff - who the heck in “Leroy Johnson”? The County Commissioner’s name is “LARRY Johnson”.
Go back to DC.
By Whatever
September 17, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this
You want to talk clueless, then talk Larry Johnson and Connie Stokes! They are walking definitions of the word clueless.