The Observation Deck

Lakewood and th Cleveland Clinic---a match made in heaven.

"The Cleveland Clinic....ranks so poorly in equity metrics that it failed to crack the United States' top 500 hospitals when "social responsibility" was taken into account.

The Lown Institute, a healthcare think tank which earlier this year found that the Cleveland Clinic was the most selfish hospital in the nation — it spends less than any other hospital in the United States on community and charity care relative to its tax exemptions, a "fair share deficit" of $261 million — has just published the second annual edition of its Social Responsibility Index, the only ranking of U.S. hospitals, it says, to include equity as a major category. The Clinic ranked 543 overall."

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The progressive Democrat does not care. I think they are secretly pleased that they will have access to $70 million in City funds that were transferred to two private foundations.

Two playgrounds for the politically well connected. Think of the possibilities!

The Clinic is a textbook example of building a brand and having the reputation of the “brand” far exceed reality.

You all know they pay to get that US News ranking, don’t you? That was all exposed as a sham years ago.

The Clinic only does what benefits the Clinic financially.

It’s long past time that the county, struggling for funds, revokes the Clinic’s tax exempt status. They have not kept their part of the bargain - charity care in return for the exemption.