HEALTHCARE

Secured Grady Memorial Hospital's 501(c)(3) status as Oversight Subcommittee Chairman six days after receiving an urgent request from the hospitals leadership. As a result, Grady is able to receive a $200 million grant from Atlanta's Robert W. Woodruff foundation as a charitable organization and continue to serve the people of Atlanta and the State of Georgia as one of the largest public hospitals in the nation, and the only level 1 trauma center within a 100-mile radius.
Introduced and passed legislation preventing $41 million in funding cuts to Georgia's hospitals by limiting the use of funds in regards to particular Medicare regulations.
Appropriated approximately $6.5 million under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (enacted) for District 5 healthcare programs and improvements, including, but not limited to:

$94,000 to finance a program operated by Georgia State University to conduct studies of HIV/AIDS-infected inmates, related behavioral patterns and recidivism rates, as well as community programming to benefiting released inmates (FY08)
$97,000 to finance Fulton County's new program, Project Excell, that would create a 12-week intensive outpatient treatment program for homeless men suffering from concurrent psychiatric disorders and substance abuse problems in accordance with the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration' standards (FY08)
$160,000 to finance Piedmont Hospital's Sixty-Plus Senior Care Transition Grant Program, which assists seniors in maintaining a sense of independence with consistent care by partnering inexpensive Atlanta-area senior housing developments with hospital nursing staff (FY08)
$300,000 to finance the acquisition of land and building of a medical school campus for the Morehouse University School of Medicine (FY08)
$326,000 to finance technology upgrades for Grady Health Systems to implement a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) System to supplant current obsolete information technology in place (FY08)

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