Grady Hospital
Jan 28th 2008David ShaferFulton County & Healthcare
Grady Health System spends $18 million annually in health care benefits for its 5,000 employees. But unlike virtually every other large hospital employer, Grady makes no effort to encourage its employees to utilize Grady for their primary health care needs.
With bipartisan support, I today introduced Senate Resolution 748 which calls on Grady to consider changes to its health care benefits plan to encourage utilization of its services by its own employees, among other measures to improve the patient mix.
This is the third piece of Grady related legislation that I have introduced in this session. The Senate Government Oversight Committe which will begin holding Grady hearings on Thursday. I am hopeful that we will be able to move these bills to the floor next week.
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February 1st, 2008 at 10:26 am
This is something that should have always been in place. You can’t take choice away from individuals however you one can strongly encourage its employees to keep the money in the system. Tier one should be Grady Health care system. If employees are made to use the system as well, they will treasure it and take care of it- attitudes about the system will change for the positive and maybe Grady will be viewed as more then just “Ghetto” (I heard several nurses and patients refer to the system using this word “Ghetto”- I personally don’t share this attitude).
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