A Safety-Net Hospital Falls Into Financial Crisis - New York Times

A Safety-Net Hospital Falls Into Financial Crisis - New York Times

By SHAILA DEWAN and KEVIN SACK

Published: January 8, 2008

ATLANTA — Pamela Vaughn is a Grady baby.

Like tens of thousands of Atlantans over the last 115 years — like Gladys Knight, the soul singer, and Vernon Jordan Jr., the presidential confidante; like more than one in three babies born here in the last decade — Ms. Vaughn entered the world at Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the nation's largest safety-net hospitals.

Ms. Vaughn was not only born at Grady, she also works there, as a senior nurse in the diabetes clinic, where many of her patients are Grady babies, too. And now, like thousands of other Atlantans, she is hoping to save the teeming charity hospital that has provided her with both life and livelihood...MORE