tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post6020968911232014797..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: Unionize Grady Hospitalmike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-73889666503117509512008-03-10T17:07:00.000-07:002008-03-10T17:07:00.000-07:00This is on top of current Chairman of the board be...This is on top of current Chairman of the board being Pam Stephenson, who is also the current CEO, and a state legislator. There is no room for corruption in those duel roles.<BR/><BR/>As for patient care, I have plenty of documented evidence that patient care is not always the way it was for you. I have first hand accounts and i am sticking by them. The patient care may have been great for you, but others have told me nightmares of stories.<BR/><BR/>That said, the idea is a great one and we will see who wants to genuinely see Grady fixed and who doesn't by who gets behind this idea.mike volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-73451475296481845732008-03-10T17:04:00.000-07:002008-03-10T17:04:00.000-07:00There is one error in your piece.Patient care at G...There is one error in your piece.<BR/><BR/>Patient care at Grady is great. I know because they have done surgery on me twice, once to relieve pressure on my brain because of cranial bleeding (Double sub-dural hematoma) and once to remove a 21" cancerous section of my colon after they detected the cancer when I finally complied after being hounded to get a coloscopy by my regular Grady care-giver (Nurse practicioner), over two years.<BR/><BR/>Many months ago Grady had an opportunity to sit down with a union, AFSCME, that has over a billion dollars in pension funds and many millions in health care operations.<BR/><BR/>They blew that off. Truth of the matter is when the government whores started raising a hew and cry about Grady going bankrupt, the banks got scared and shut down the Grady line of credit. Except for that the Board would have muddled through.<BR/><BR/>Now, after all the cries bout conflict of interest, it is proposed to install a 501 Board Chair named Pete Correll, ex-CEO of Georgia Pacific and a member of Emory Medical Advisory Board.<BR/><BR/>Emory provides the principal medical staff for Grady.<BR/><BR/>Correll, in an interview by Jenny Jarvis who writes THE NATION column for the LA Times, on November 26, 2007 was quoted thusly 'While any board "would be very hesitant to cut services in order to survive," Correll said, it also had to confront the question: "How do we decide what is a reasonable level of health?"<BR/><BR/>Obviously Correll is not speaking about determining "a reasonable level of health" for rich bastards like himself.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, this would be murderer ought to think about his own fate when the revolution comes.<BR/><BR/>Jack Jersawitz<BR/>404-892-1238<BR/>bigjackjj@yahoo.comJack Jersawitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07100993106001869757noreply@blogger.com