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Grady’s Fight: You With Us or Agin’ Us?

New Grady Health System CEO Mike Young may not be a Southerner, but he is learning a thing or two about how to pick a fight in Atlanta. The first step in any scuffle is to knock the bystanders off the fence and see which side they fall on.

How else to explain a very public set of exposed loyalties in recent weeks. In December, after less than five months on the job, Young sent out a request to the Atlanta’s other non-profit hospitals to pony up $50 million as their share of the uncompensated care burden shouldered by Grady, which could face a 2008 deficit of more than $40 million. Two reasons that he already knew the answer before he asked: 1) Hospitals never share money and 2) The new Grady board led by former Georgia-Pacific CEO Pete Correll is full of Atlanta business and fundraising heavyweights who have been campaigning relentlessly for months, so I’m pretty sure they had asked before. [more]