The distribution of supplemental funding for the state’s trauma care system was finalized today. Still, a bigger challenge remains for Georgia.
The Trauma Care Network Commission has approved a plan to divide 58-million dollars of funding across the state. The biggest slice goes to financially-strapped Grady Hospital in Atlanta. However, the 12.7 million dollars is about half of what the Level-1 trauma facility had hoped for.
Commission members had the challenge of dividing money across many different trauma centers in the state and other areas of need.
Dennis Ashley is chair of the Commission and trauma chief for Macon’s Level-1 trauma center:
"We’ve certainly shown the need, and the silos where the money need to go as far as the uncompensated care, readiness costs, EMS...these are big silos that need to be treated, or taken care of. So we need to go forward".
Atlanta’s Grady received the lion's share of funding. Second-most is 5.6 million dollars to go to Savannah’s Memorial Health, with Augusta’s Medical College of Georgia to expect around 5-million.
Still in need is a permanent funding structure for trauma care in Georgia.
The Trauma Care Network Commission has approved a plan to divide 58-million dollars of funding across the state. The biggest slice goes to financially-strapped Grady Hospital in Atlanta. However, the 12.7 million dollars is about half of what the Level-1 trauma facility had hoped for.
Commission members had the challenge of dividing money across many different trauma centers in the state and other areas of need.
Dennis Ashley is chair of the Commission and trauma chief for Macon’s Level-1 trauma center:
"We’ve certainly shown the need, and the silos where the money need to go as far as the uncompensated care, readiness costs, EMS...these are big silos that need to be treated, or taken care of. So we need to go forward".
Atlanta’s Grady received the lion's share of funding. Second-most is 5.6 million dollars to go to Savannah’s Memorial Health, with Augusta’s Medical College of Georgia to expect around 5-million.
Still in need is a permanent funding structure for trauma care in Georgia.
