Feds probing Cleveland Clinic over ‘minority’ health programs: ‘Racially motivated focus’

WASHINGTON (TND) — The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR) has launched an investigation into the Cleveland Clinic over programs allegedly providing medical services to minority populations, it announced last week.

HHS-OCR wrote in a Sept. 10 letter that it was investigating the clinic’s “Minority Stroke Program,” which has a stated purpose of preventing and treating strokes in racial and ethnic minorities. It will also probe the clinic’s “Minority Men’s Health Center.”

The decision follows the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filing a complaint on behalf of medical advocacy organization Do No Harm.The organization claimed that both the “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center” have violated protections by the Civil Rights Act and Affordable Care Act against discrimination.

Read more on The National Desk.