Cleveland Clinic’s decision to open a trauma center on its main campus would be “reckless,” MetroHealth’s CEO wrote in a letter to the leader of the Cleveland Clinic earlier this week.
The move risks harming patients, and the Clinic should have included the community in the decision, wrote Dr. Christine Alexander-Rager to Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic on Feb. 2.
“It is deeply concerning that this announcement appears to have been made without regional planning, stakeholder consultation or a demonstrated community need,” she wrote…