Next year's total should be in the same range. This number has been constant for three years, as has the total medical faculty. Patient volume at Grady also has remained level. Ninety-eight of these 289 physicians are supplied by Emory at no cost to Grady or the counties. Emory, like Morehouse, also underwrites healthcare costs and salaries of other Emory physicians partially funded by Grady, doing so through charges collected from insurers of patients seen at Grady by Emory doctors and additional money from Emory's own resources.
Residency training is also a great support to the hospital.
These young physicians work long hours, providing patient care under close supervision of Emory and Morehouse faculty physicians, at salaries less than the average for nurse practitioners in the state of Georgia. Grady also receives indirect medical education support from the Health Care Financing Administration as a teaching hospital. More than 100 Emory medical students and approximately 35 Morehouse medical students provide other services at Grady every day, such as transporting patients, at no cost to the hospital. What you can do to help First, write your senator or congressman to express concern about the BBA's deleterious effect on Grady and other teaching hospitals. Designed to reduce health care costs, the legislation is having an impact beyond what was foreseen.