Gwinnett Wants Open-Heart Facility

"neighboring county " means GRADY. THey can find money to enhance other hospitals but, cant keep in tune the hospital that everyone depends on.??

Good. Now all we need are citizens who maintain health insurance so the new hospital doesn't go bankrupt.

Y'all getting greedy!! Y'all can't help a hospital from going under but Y'all can find money to help y'allself. Something just don't sound righty here, folks!

You all are too funny in your comments comparing apples to oranges.

First off, Grady and Gwinnett Medical are 2 seperate entities, one public, one private.

Second off, if you want Grady to succeed, put a proper, competent board in control of hospital. Gwinnett Medical has a decent board, and has been a valuable service to Gwinnett and surrounding counties.

Third off, quit your griping... a hospital is trying to do something to improve its service.... would you rather them not provide the service?

So, feel free to knock or be upset about Grady, and the manner in which its board of directors ran it, but taking potshots at another company, just because it has succeeded (which, if I remember right, is the reason for going into business), is childish.

I strongly support Gwinnett Medical Center's attempt to offer cardiac care. I find it distasteful that the hospital has to beg the State to be allowed to offer this service to its patients. Hospitals should have the right to offer any service they are medically competent to provide. They shouldn't have to go hat in hand to the State to beg to be allowed to do what they are supposed to do.

I recently required heart surgery and had to be transferred by ambulance from GMC's cardiac cath lab to Crawford Long in Atlanta. While caught in traffic in the ambulance, I suffered a second heart attack. This extended my stay in Crawford Long's cardiac ICU, and left me with a less optimistic prognosis for a full recovery than if GMC would have been able to offer me treatment on site instead.(Crawford Long is a really good hospital with an excellent staff, and I was in very good hands there, but the delay in obtaining treatment was still a serious and potentially life threatening issue.)