Grady Hospital Dialysis Crisis

On August 26, 2010 the Grady Coalition and other advocates for uninsured, immigrant dialysis patients of Grady Memorial Hospital held a rally outside the entrance to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, GA.

According to Advocates for Responsible Care, at least 33 patients of the Grady Dialysis Clinic, have waited one year to know their fate of receiving life--sustaining, ongoing dialysis treatment. These patient suffer from End Stage Renal Disease ("ESRD") and have been displaced from the outpatient dialysis clinic at Grady Hospital in Atlanta when the hospital decided to closed the clinic in the fall of 2009. Since then the patients have continued to received life sustaining outpatient dialysis treatments three times a week under a temporary transfer of care contract between Grady Hospital and Fresenius Medical Services, a for profit provider of dialysis care. The contract between Grady and Fresenius will expire August 31, 2010. The patients will succumb to blood toxicity build up and die within approximately two weeks without continued dialysis care.

This is vigil is one of many and varied attempts to stand in solidarity of God's children whose lives lie in the balance.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Grady Memorial Hospital
• Fresenius
• Emory University
• Atlanta
• immigrants
• healthcare
• health insurance
• the uninsured
• dialysis
• ersd
• end stage renal dialysis
• the grady coalition
• advocates for responsible care
• alterna
• privatization
• illegal immigration
• Dr. Neil Shulman
• State Senator Vincent Fort

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We need to stand up for this patients now not later