The Urban Studies Institute, part of the School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, conducted research and collected data regarding the revitalization of inner city areas in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1980s and 1990s. The rehabilitation that occurred in 1994 due to Atlanta's award of the President's Empowerment Zone relates to the research concerning the lack of funding at Grady Memorial Hospital in the preceding decade. The strategic plan, "Creating an Urban Village," contains a survey of problematic areas in the City of Atlanta. One such problem area was the hospital facilities at Grady Memorial Hospital. The Hospital Authority serves Fulton and DeKalb counties at Grady Memorial Hospital. Grady is located downtown, and its patients primarily consist of lower income residents and indigents who have not applied for Medicaid or are not eligible for such aid. The hospital, therefore, suffers from a high inpatient count while receiving low state and federal funding. The Urban Studies Institute sought to discover where and how the hospital could increase its financial support. Simultaneously, Grady, which had been a prominent teaching hospital in the past, lacked the proper funding to maintain its historical level of training of interns from surrounding Atlanta medical schools.