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DEL.ICIO.USCorrell on a Grady CEO: ‘It’s going to take an experienced executive’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This morning, WABE (90.1 FM) broadcast a telling interview with Pete Correll, who on Monday was named chairman of Grady Memorial Hospital’s new non-profit governing board.
Reading between the sound bites, it sounds like state Rep. Pam Stephenson (D-Atlanta), a lawyer who is currently serving as the CEO of Grady hospital, might not have the $600,000-a-year job for long.
The Atlanta public radio station has posted the audio here.
Pete Correll, the new chairman of the non-profit Grady Hospital board. Jenni Girtman / AJC
But here’s a partial transcript:
Morning Edition host Steve Goss: We see that Pam Stephenson has been named vice chair of the board. Will she continue as CEO of Grady hospital?
Pete Correll: She will certainly continue as CEO, as I understand it, through the time that the lease commences. Of course, that’s a decision of the Grady hospital authority board, not the new board.
The new board has not discussed what we’re going to do for a CEO going forward. And if Pam wants to be a candidate, she clearly would be, but this is a big job, and it’s going to take an experienced executive who’s done it before to lead this hospital through the magnitude of the financial transformation we’ve got to go through.
Goss: Do you feel she’s qualified to run Grady hospital?
Correll:You know, I honestly do not have any opinion on that. I’ve not studied Pam’s resume and what she’s done. She’s dealt very credibly with me. I have a lot of respect for her. This has been a difficult six months, but in terms of whether she’s qualified to run the hospital, I just don’t know enough to have an opinion.
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