After two years Grady Hospital has refused to renew the contract with Fresenius for the dialysis care that the Grady patients with renal failure need to stay alive. Please sign this petition and call your senator or representative to protest this injustice and inhumanity.
Below is the press release from Advocates for Responsible [...]
Yesterday we converged at Emory University to present a letter to President Jim Wagner requesting that Emory join with other dialysis centers in Atlanta, GA to help provide care for the 33 dialysis patients whose extension of life-saving dialysis ends next week. We then traveled to the Fresenius Dialysis Center at 231 14th St in [...]
Sign the petition to save the Grady dialysis patients here.
After August 31, 2010, thirty three (33) uninsured End-Stage-Renal Disease patients of Grady Memorial Hospital will no longer receive their life-sustaining dialysis treatments.
- In September 2009, Grady Memorial Hospital closed its outpatient dialysis clinic. At that time the thirty three (33) uninsured patients, [...]
and imminent sentence of death for 33 patients on Aug 31 2010. Interview by Grady physician Neil Shulman MD
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Neil Shulman MD gave a talk at a recent Emory Cardiology Research Conference about the plight of the Grady Hospital dialysis patients. (Read all of the posts about Grady dialysis here). A year ago, we the Grady patients received a death sentence after the board of directors decided to close the dialysis clinic and [...]
This weekend we had the Emory International Medical Volunteerism Conference here in Atlanta, GA. George Lundberg MD was the keynote speaker and there were sessions on volunteering in third world countries, advocacy for patient rights and a range of other topics.
Lindsay Jones, the attorney who took on the case of the Grady [...]
The situation at Grady Hospital in Atlanta of cutting off dialysis for poor patients without insurance (which will make them, um, die) is an echo of the national political farse of throwing out public option health insurance and throwing more good money after bad (Karen Ignagni and her group of health insurance criminals). I [...]
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Indeed. Words spoken today by Lindsay Jones, attorney representing the dialysis patients who have been given a death sentence by the decision to close Grady Dialysis Clinic in Atlanta, GA (see “Do I Have the Right To Live?” and the original post on this story “Grady Hospital Tells Dialysis Patients to [...]
Today in Fulton County court the courtroom was packed with dialysis patients and advocates who were scheduled to have their dialysis turned off last week but for whom a temporary restraining order had kept the Grady clinic in Atlanta GA open until today, I guess. Lawyers for Grady Hospital argued that the patients don’t have [...]
