Tuesday, August 21, 2007
By Ron Marhsall
If you look for incompetence, disrespect and arrogance, you will see the same people that destroy independence in communities. These are the same people that infiltrate groups and organizations to destroy the mission. They come in cloaked with daggers.
Why is the nonprofit the only plan being discussed?
I always get a kick out of it when somebody loves to get attention from work performed by the people of the forest. The forest people have no big names nor do they look to be seen they just want justice. But they pay. The forest people tried to give answers to the disease that has infected Grady Hospital, and found something larger and more deadly, secrecy.
The New Grady Coalition was formed by the forest people and is a Corporation. The members have a true concern about Grady Hospital -- not use it for personal means. The New Grady Coalition invited all members from the old coalition but only a few came to us and joined. No one else not even Tim McDonald was heard from. But they are always invited to come to our meetings as well as anybody else.
There are questions that must be discussed. Why is the nonprofit the only plan being discussed? What supporting data is there that going to a private nonprofit is the best way to move all of the recovery energy towards this and only this solution? I see another cover up.
Why isn’t Emory being ask to support Grady with dollars? Remember the new extension to Crawford Long Hospital only 3 years ago at a cost of $127 million? Why would Emory build an extension to a hospital located only blocks away unless they knew where the money was coming from to finance it? If I were in control of a $750 million facility (as Emory is) I guest I could divert funds (paying patients) that should go to Grady where their really needed, instead to a new place (the new extension) and know one would ask any questions.
The idea to privatize Grady started somewhere with whom? How has it worked at hospitals similar to Grady? Again this looks like the good ole boy take down. The business captains got the Olympics to Atlanta so why can’t they get some millions? Much of what you experience is what you expect to get. We must have a positive purpose and reinforce the safety net that will catch us all when needed.
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