Do No Harm v. Cleveland Clinic

On August 14, 2024, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of Do No Harm against the Cleveland Clinic. Our complaint alleges violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, focusing on two specific examples of race discrimination at Cleveland Clinic: the Minority Stroke Program (archived link) and the Minority Men’s Health Center (archived link).

On September 10, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR) opened an investigation. However, the case was quietly closed in the final days of the Biden administration. Since the core contentions of the complaint had not been addressed, Do No Harm filed a request for HHS-OCR to reconsider its decision to end the investigation.

In January 2026, DNH’s reconsideration request was granted, re-opening the investigation into Cleveland Clinic’s race-centric programming.