A look at Grady's financial health ... by the numbers

Grady was first opened in 1892.

Its patients come primarily from five metro Atlanta counties: Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett.

Grady sees more than 30-thousand inpatients and almost 1-million outpatients each year.

Grady trains one-quarter of the state’s doctors, and has nearly one-thousand patient beds.

In 2005, Dekalb and Fulton counties reimbursed Grady 105 million dollars as payment for the nearly 200 million in indigent patient care Grady provided that year.

Grady's current debt level stands at 120-million dollars. The hospital falls deeper in debt at the rate of 3-million dollars per day. It will take least 200-million dollars for Grady to make badly needed capital improvements.