Is Cleveland Clinic the wokest hospital in America? They prioritize race-based care and DEI, gender ideology, and climate activism over patients.
In a letter to patients, caregivers, and community members, Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic stated: “providing high-quality healthcare is only part of our mission” for Cleveland Clinic. Whether it’s supporting racial favoritism and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), transgender medicine for children, or far-left climate activism, Cleveland Clinic is prioritizing woke policies over patients.
Cleveland Clinic makes DEI a priority and “strives to embed diversity and inclusion into all aspects of the organization.” It even has “inclusion” listed as a core value of the organization.
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Cleveland Clinic’s Chief of Diversity and Inclusion Jacqui Robertson stated in an interview, “I don’t believe diversity and inclusion should ever be a standalone strategy. It has to be embedded in everything that we do.”
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In 2024, Cleveland Clinic was sued for engaging in race-based discrimination against patients in two healthcare programs: the Minority Stroke Program and the Minority Men’s Health Center. The lawsuit accused the clinic of prioritizing patients based on skin color, instead of administering medical care to everyone regardless of skin color.
Source: National Review
Cleveland Clinic also promotes gender ideology on kids. The Clinic performed hundreds of sex-change procedures on minors. The hospital system has also published articles explaining how parents can help their kids question their gender along with pieces hailing the benefits of puberty blockers and “gender-affirming hormone therapy” for young people struggling with body image.
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In December 2024, Cleveland Clinic opened a new clinic in Florida specifically for LGBTQ+ individuals.
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Cleveland Clinic has been named as a “Leader in Healthcare Equality status” from the Human Rights Campaign since 2016.
Source: Human Rights Campaign
Cleveland Clinic has also adopted aggressive climate goals. CEO Tom Mihaljevic stated the clinic’s “sustainability program is setting an example for healthcare organizations, and the “ultimate goal is to be carbon neutral by 2027.”
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Cleveland Clinic has committed the entire hospital system to advancing the woke climate agenda through partnerships with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Climate Collaborative and Health Care Without Harm’s Climate Council.
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The clinic also partnered with Practice Greenhealth, an organization that “offers information, best practices, and solutions for greening the many facets of the health care industry.” Together, they have contributed to ecochallenge dot org, a radical leftist group formed to “help people of privilege to change their mindsets and actions for a better world.”
Source: Practice Greenhealth
For Cleveland Clinic, it doesn’t stop with a blind devotion to woke ideology. Cleveland Clinic covered up sex crimes by doctors, compromising patient safety and signaling that reputation management is a priority above consumer wellbeing. The Clinic knew a surgeon was accused of at least two cases of raping a patient but continued to keep the surgeon on staff while reaching a confidential settlement. A former Cleveland Clinic associate general put it bluntly that major health care systems are “very often more interested in protecting their brand than protecting the health of patients.“
Source: WEWS
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