Schools React to Preliminary Report on Deficiencies
Contact: Sarah Goodwin
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The following statement was issued jointly by President John Maupin of Morehouse School of Medicine and President James Wagner of Emory University, following the release of preliminary findings of the Joint Commission
for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations following its recent survey
of the Grady Health System:
We have been made aware of the preliminary findings of the Joint Commission
for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations following its recent survey
of the Grady Health System. Joint Commission surveys evaluate hospitals’
structures and patient care processes. We await the official report later
this month.
This preliminary report, which found a number of process deficiencies,
underscores the need for additional resources and more emphasis on
restructuring to ensure adequate funding for Grady Health System now and in
the future. The persistent under-funding of the Grady Health System over the
past ten years contributes to the problems identified in the most recent
Joint Commission survey.
Emory and Morehouse are working together to help Grady Health System address
the problems cited by the Joint Commission. These challenges also underscore
the difficulties our medical schools face in recruiting high-quality
residents into the hospital for a multi-year period. Maintaining the highest
possible standards of patient care remains the priority of both medical
schools as we work with Grady to address the Joint Commission findings.
- 12/3/07
