For more than 100 years, Atlanta's Grady Hospital has been the health care provider for the region's poor and uninsured, but in 2007, it faced a crisis. Philip Graitcer investigates.
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It's a thankless task, running a public hospital. Squeezed by patients, governments, and community leaders, a public hospital can't - in the public's eye - seem to do anything right. Closing a clinic, laying off staff, increasing co-payments saves money, but at what human cost? For Grady Hospital, their public image reached crisis level when it decided to close its outpatient dialysis clinic, putting two dozen patients - mostly undocumented residents - out on the street with nowhere to get their life saving treatment. more »
Reporters have an unprecedented opportunity this year to chronicle a historic battle in the unfolding story of federal health reform. Yet getting the story right will depend on mastering the details. more »
Public health researchers take aim at sugar, Elizabeth Banks makes a heart attack movie, new advances in treating prostate cancer and more from our Daily Briefing. more »
