Federal Government Launches Investigation Into Cleveland Clinic For Alleged Racial Discrimination

The Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OCR) is launching a federal investigation into the Cleveland Clinic for alleged racial discrimination, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) announced Monday.

WILL filed a civil rights complaint regarding the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and its “Minority Stroke Program” and “Minority Men’s Health Center,” alleging they violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. The HHS Civil Rights Office (OCR) sent a letter to WILL informing the organization it would be investigating the allegations of racial discrimination. 

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HHS Opens Investigation into Alleged Anti-White Discrimination at Cleveland Clinic

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights concluded on Tuesday that it has “sufficient authority and cause” to investigate allegations that the Cleveland Clinic violated federal civil-rights law by discriminating against white patients.

The investigation was opened in response to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) on behalf of the medical watchdog Do No Harm on August 14. The complaint alleges that the Cleveland Clinic “treats white individuals differently from certain racial and ethnic minorities in the tailoring and provision of services provided through its Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center.

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Government To Probe Race-Based Medical Care Programs at Prestigious Cleveland Clinic After Bias Allegations

The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating two programs at the Cleveland Clinic that offer preferential care to minorities, the first such probe by an agency that has been loath to police racial preferences under the Biden-Harris administration.

HHS announced last week that it had launched an investigation of the clinic’s Minority Stroke Program, which is dedicated to “treating stroke in racial and ethnic minorities,” and its Minority Men’s Health Center, which screens black and Hispanic men for disease, in response to a discrimination complaint filed by Do No Harm, an advocacy group that opposes identity politics in medicine.

“[The Office of Civil Rights] has reviewed the complaint and has determined that it has sufficient authority and cause to investigate the allegations,” HHS wrote in a letter to Do No Harm’s attorneys. “Therefore, we have initiated an investigation.”

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HHS to Probe Civil Rights Complaint Against Cleveland Clinic

The Biden administration will investigate a civil rights complaint that claims the Cleveland Clinic’s Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center both violate federal law by focusing their efforts on specific racial groups.

The complaint was filed in August by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty on behalf of the conservative policy group Do No Harm. It claims the group’s members have been victims of “race discrimination” due to the programs at the prominent Ohio medical center.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether the programs violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on racial grounds in health programs. The complaint alleges the programs violate the law by singling out people for certain services.

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Feds Investigating Cleveland Clinic For Allegedly Treating ‘White Individuals Differently’

Federal officials have opened an investigation into the Cleveland Clinic over its race-based programs after a conservative legal firm accused the healthcare provider of racial discrimination. 

The Department of Health and Human Services’s Office of Civil Rights said last week that it was investigating the Cleveland Clinic over its promotion of its “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center,” according to a letter from HHS shared with The Daily Wire. 

The department was alerted to the programs by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), which filed a complaint on August 14 on behalf of Do No Harm accusing the clinic of engaging in racial discrimination. Do No Harm is an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine. 

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New study finds top medical schools value left-wing activism over science

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Forget anatomy or physiology: Many of the medical students heading back to class this month are taking courses that focus more on social justice and diversity. 

That’s my conclusion in a new study that analyzes the curricula at medical schools across the country. 

Future physicians are spending more time on divisive political topics and less time on the medical science on which individual and public health depend — a fact that should terrify policymakers and patients alike.

My study — the first to document the prevalence of ideology in medical school curricula — focuses on schools’ publicly available course catalogs. 

Using the US News and World Report rankings, I started with the top-ranked institutions in the country, then worked my way down the list.

Read more in the New York Post.

EXCLUSIVE: Red States Urge Federal Court To Halt ‘Medical Scandal,’ Unblock Child Sex Change Ban

Nearly two dozen states are urging a federal appeals court to uphold Florida’s ban on child sex change operations, warning that history may not look kindly on the sterilization of children for gender distress.

In a brief filed Wednesday and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 22 other state attorneys general urged the eleventh circuit court of appeals to reverse a lower court ruling that overturned Florida’s pediatric sex-change ban. The amici noted that until recently, “providing sex-change treatments to minors was practically unthinkable,” and recognized that many states and European countries have already created age-based restrictions on sex-change medical interventions.

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Climate change classes should be ‘mandatory’ in med school, doctor says

‘Irresponsible’ not to train ‘future practitioners for the realities they will be facing’

Climate change courses should be “mandatory” for aspiring doctors, according to medical students and clinicians in Michigan.

“My personal opinion is that it should be mandatory,” Dr. Lisa DelBuono told The College Fix via email. “Climate change has been politicized, but it is not a political issue… It would be irresponsible to not prepare future practitioners for the realities they will be facing.”

“Fossil fuels pollution and climate change are making Michigan residents sick today, and the impacts are on track to become much worse going forward,” she said. “The good news is that climate solutions are health solutions and most of what we do to address climate change will improve human health, save lives, and save healthcare dollars.”

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Cleveland Clinic Scrubs Race-Based Center From Website After Complaint

The Cleveland Clinic scrubbed references to its minority-only health clinic after a conservative group filed a federal civil rights complaint against the provider earlier this month. 

The Clinic removed information on its “Minority Men’s Health Center” from its website sometime after August 14, when the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services accusing the clinic of illegal discrimination. The complaint was filed on behalf of Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine. 

The complaint specifically took issue with the clinic’s racially-focused “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center.” 

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International ‘equity’ scholars can’t define ‘gender’ after 5 years of research

International scholars concluded a five-year “equity” project by determining the concept of “gender” cannot be defined but should be incorporated into all aspects of scientific research nonetheless.

Funded by the European Union, their research was part of a project called GENDER-NET Plus. Launched in 2017, it brought together scholars from various countries to overcome “challenges in achieving gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research and innovation.”

Their final report “Integrating gender analysis into research,” published in The Lancet in July, summarized the scholars’ thoughts on “how to best integrate both sex and gender into studies ranging from social sciences, humanities, and health research.”

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UC San Diego scrubs female-only STEM program after federal complaint

The University of California San Diego removed some information about its STEM program only open to female high school students following a federal civil rights complaint.

The physical sciences’ department page for “STEM Girl Summer” returns an “access denied” message.

However, the university still lists information on the program elsewhere, including in a social media post last week.

Civil rights activist Mark Perry told The College Fix he believes the university removed the information after he shared a “courtesy copy” of his Title IX complaint. He said in his complaint that the university should open the program to all students or create an equivalent opportunity for male students.

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Left-Wing Nonprofit Steered ‘Health Equity’ Grants Based On Race, Watchdog Says

The Greater Washington Community Foundation (GWCF) runs a “Health Equity” program that appears to racially discriminate against applicants in its grant-making process, according to the medical watchdog group Do No Harm.

The GWCF says its “Health Equity Fund” prioritizes grants to “BIPOC-led organizations” in order to achieve “equitable health outcomes for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other marginalized populations in Washington, DC.” Applicants are required to submit a “letter of intent” that lists demographics such as race, gender and ethnic background of board members from partner organizations, according to an informational webinar posted online in October 2023.

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Medical School Drops Scholarship Program Offered Only to Racial Minorities

A medical school is scrapping a scholarship program that was created exclusively for racial minorities after a watchdog organization filed a civil-rights complaint alleging discriminatory behavior.

Western Michigan University’s School of Medicine shuttered its “Underrepresented in Medicine Visiting Elective Scholarship Program” earlier this week after Do No Harm, a watchdog organization opposed to race preferences in medicine, filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education in January 2023, National Review has learned.

“During the investigation, the Medical School notified OCR that it discontinued the program. The Medical School further confirmed that it removed promotional material regarding the program from its website,” the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights said Monday in a letter exclusively obtained by National Review.

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UCLA medical school hired students to write course curriculum emphasizing ‘Structural Racism and Health Equity’

The University of California, Los Angeles Medical School hired students to write the curriculum for the school’s required Structural Racism and Health Equity (SRHE) courses. 

A June 2023 document that was obtained by Do No Harm, a medical and policy advocacy group, showed that UCLA’s medical school was seeking to recruit first and second year medical students to develop a curriculum associated with liberal ideas such as critical race theory.

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The Voter-Registration Guide Will See You Now

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A worrisome new consensus in the medical community holds that doctors should be as concerned with politics as they are with medicine.

“We again discussed . . . the importance of voting and the safety, security, and effectiveness of voting by mail.”

These probably aren’t the words you’d expect to see in a medical record. Yet that’s what a medical professional at a prominent northeastern hospital wrote earlier this year after seeing a patient. The record, a de-identified version of which was provided to my organization, shows a new and profoundly concerning trend in medicine: Leftists are making the doctor’s office a major cog in their voter-registration and turnout machine.

Read more on the National Review.

No, Michael Bloomberg — black doctors don’t offer better care to blacks than white ones

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Aug. 6 was a great day for the next generation of black doctors.

But it was also a reminder that divisive and discriminatory ideology has infected American medicine.

The praiseworthy part is that Michael Bloomberg gave $600 million to four historically black medical schools.

That money will help defray the exorbitant cost of medical school, hopefully for those with the greatest financial need.

The painful part is that Bloomberg gave this gift in service to a lie — one that encourages racism and even medicine’s re-segregation, though the former mayor surely doesn’t realize it.

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Seattle Children’s Hospital Segregates Doctors by Race, Asks Them To Tap ‘Repressed Racial Memories’ in Leaked Training

Stomach doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital were forced to attend a racially segregated diversity training that included lessons on “critical race theory,” claimed black people are “systematically targeted for demise,” and pressed white doctors to “tap into their repressed racial memories” to develop a white “race-consciousness,” according to slides from the training obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Held in August 2022, the training was mandatory for the gastroenterology department and divided participants into three “racial caucuses”—a white caucus, a black caucus, and a “Non-Black POC Caucus”—to “minimize harm to our black learners and facilitator.”

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Female medical program won’t exclude white students after discrimination complaint

A top medical fellowship for women will stop excluding white applicants after a complaint accused the program of being racially discriminatory in light of the Supreme Court outlawing affirmative action last year.

Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization that serves as a watchdog in the healthcare industry, filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of female students who met the criteria for the $20,000 award offered by the American Association of University Women but were excluded on the basis of race. Attorneys for both groups wrote in a joint stipulation on Aug. 9 that the lawsuit would be dismissed after AAUW agreed to “not consider” any future applicants’ race or ethnicity.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.