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 Otis Story, Sr. Appointed New CEO
For Grady Health System
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The
Board of Trustees of The Fulton-DeKalb Hospital
Authority, the governing body of Grady Health System®,
announces the unanimous appointment of Otis L. Story,
Sr. as president and chief executive officer of
Grady Health System.
“The engagement of Mr.
Story to this position comes after an extensive
nation-wide search to find the right person to assist
the Board in our determination to transformGrady
Hospital. This is another
milestone in the Board’s aggressive program to improve
the operations and services at Grady,” said Pamela S.
Stephenson, Esq., chair of The Fulton-DeKalb
Hospital Authority Board of Trustees.
Otis Story
brings nearly 30 years of healthcare experience that
includes work with a major medical group (Oschner),
academic medical centers, and community-based
hospitals.
Currently, he is associated with Huron Consulting
Group and serves as the Executive Director (interim
management) at St. Vincent
Catholic
Medical
Center –
St John’s
Queens
Hospital in
Elmhurst,
NY. Story has been
successful in leading strategic repositioning of
under-performing organizations. Additionally, he
has worked in the formation of major health systems,
including the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and
the Memorial Health University Medical Center-Quorum
Health Services, in
Savannah,
GA. Other assignments
have involved him in the development of clinical
programs, system enhancements, cost control, revenue
enhancement and process changes. Story was
educated at the
University of
Alabama in
Birmingham,
the University
of Chicago,
and Cornell
University.
“Grady is an extraordinary hospital. However,
upgrading Grady to improve fiscal control and achieve
operational efficiency will be the priority of my new
administration,” says Story. Grady’s transformation also
includes designing and implementing new programs that
will reach out to the metropolitan Atlanta community in
order to raise awareness and support for the positive
attributes of Grady Hospital.
Grady Health System® is not just vital to the
Atlanta
community, but also to citizens of North Georgia. It is an internationally-recognized
teaching hospital staffed exclusively by doctors from
Emory
University
and Morehouse School of Medicine. Twenty-five
percent of all physicians in
Georgia
are trained at Grady.
The health system manages more than 900,000
patient visits each year and consists of
Grady
Memorial
Hospital and
10 neighborhood/airport health centers.
Atlanta
’s
safety net hospital, Grady is the largest public
hospital in the Southeast, providing valuable medical
services not otherwise available locally or statewide
and boasting one of
America
’s
premier Level I Trauma Centers. It provides one of only
two burn units in the state and is one of the busiest
emergency care centers in the nation.
Founded in 1892, Grady continues to meet the
medical needs of the underserved and uninsured
population while offering a full-range of extraordinary
health care for all citizens of the metropolitan
community.
In addition to Stephenson, other
members of the Board of Trustees of The Fulton-DeKalb
Hospital Authority include Christopher R.
Edwards, M.D., Vice Chair; Geoffrey A.
Heard; Michael R.
Hollis, Esq; William P.
Loughrey; Frank Monteith;
Dexter M.
Page, M.D.; Clayton
Shepherd; and Daniel J.
Whitner, Jr., D.D.S. Board members serve a four-year term and are
appointed by the Fulton
County and DeKalb County Commission members
to represent their respective communities.
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