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DEL.ICIO.USShafer to Grady: Hospital workers, heal thyselves
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
State Sen. David Shafer (R-Duluth) has already introduced two measures aimed at Grady Memorial Hospital and its transition to an institution run by a non-profit corporation.
One would establish a legislative oversight committee to monitor the charity hospital, and a second would prohibit its board directors from having any financial interest in its operations.
Now he’s come up with a third, S.R. 748, urging the hospital to encourage employees to use Grady as the place where they go when they get sick.
“Grady spends $18 million annually providing health care for its 5,000 employees, but unlike most large hospital employers, does not encourage or require its employees to use Grady as their primary health care provider,” Shafer said in his press release.
That probably doesn’t get at the needs of your average R.N. who lives in the ‘burbs — Grady has no satellite outposts. But as a quality control measure, it might have an impact.
As far as that goes, Grady is only a block or two away from the state Capitol, home to thousands and thousands of state workers, plus a few hundred lawmakers. And state health insurance policies are so darned high.
Shafer says the bill has Democratic support, but the top six names on the measure are all Republican.
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