ATLANTA AP – Days after being officially appointed, the 17-member nonprofit board of the Grady Hospital Corporation met for the first time on Monday and immediately began efforts to bail out the public hospital from its financial crisis.

Within 10 minutes of the meeting’s start, the board chose retired Georgia Pacific Corp. chairman and chief executive officer Pete Correll, attorney and state Rep. Pamela Stephenson and director of QuadraMed Corp. and Sonic Innovations Inc. Robert Miller as its chairman, vice chairman and secretary.