{"id":15759,"date":"2025-03-14T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:58:40","slug":"trump-administration-opens-investigation-into-discriminatory-practices-of-johns-hopkins-and-cincinnati-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15759","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Opens Investigation into Discriminatory Practices of Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/trump-administration-opens-investigation-into-discriminatory-practices-of-johns-hopkins-and-cincinnati-childrens-hospital\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The News:\u00a0The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just announced two new federal investigations against discriminatory DEI\u00a0education and training programs\u00a0at\u00a0major academic medical centers\u2014Johns Hopkins University and Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital. WLWT TV in Cincinnati,\u00a0Ohio\u00a0broke the story<\/a>\u00a0last night.\u00a0HHS\u2019s investigations are in response to complaints filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), on behalf of its client Do No Harm (DNH).<\/p>\n

Months ago, HHS also\u00a0announced an investigation into\u00a0the Cleveland Clinic following WILL\u2019s complaint regarding racially discriminatory\u00a0DEI\u00a0patient-care\u00a0programs. The federal government\u2019s investigations into these healthcare systems represent the first major federal inquiry into the legality of DEI practices in healthcare\u00a0in response to President Trump\u2019s executive orders.<\/p>\n

From the Department of Health and Human Services: \u201cThese investigations are in response to allegations and information OCR received that certain medical schools and hospitals that receive HHS funding may operate medical education, training, or scholarship programs for current or prospective workforce members that discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex. National policy under Executive Order 14173 directs federal agencies to enforce long-standing civil rights laws and \u2018to combat illegal private sector [diversity, equity and inclusion] DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Today\u2019s actions restore merit-based opportunities in medicine and signify that hard-working health care professionals and high-achieving students in the pipeline for medical and nursing fields should not be demeaned at work, or excluded from professional or scholarship opportunities, because of their race or sex,\u2019 said Anthony Archeval, Acting Director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS.\u201d\u00a0(HHS Media Release, 3.7.25).<\/p>\n

The Quotes:\u00a0WILL Associate Counsel, Cara Tolliver, stated, \u201cAmerica\u2019s healthcare systems and medical training institutions face a reckoning, and the Trump-Vance Administration has shown a clear willingness to end government-funded racial discrimination. The healthcare system cannot function effectively when patient care and healthcare education are allotted to individuals based on race instead of need or merit, respectively. It is high time for these discriminatory practices to end. WILL is prepared to eliminate as many illegal programs as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJohns Hopkins must immediately cease its discriminatory practices if it wishes to be a model for medical education,\u201d said Stanley Goldfarb, MD, Chairman of Do No Harm. \u201cThis investigation is an important first step toward holding Johns Hopkins accountable for its unlawful racial discrimination. Restricting opportunities based on race is incompatible with the fundamental ethical principles of medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional Background:\u00a0On January 15, 2025, WILL and DNH filed a civil rights complaint challenging various examples of sex and\/or race discrimination in medical education, training, and scholarship programs provided at Johns Hopkins University through its School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

The University boasts of a top-ranking medical school in which third- and fourth-year medical students have opportunities to complete required \u201cclinical rotations\u201d to gain hands-on patient care experiences across various medical specialties. However, Johns Hopkins does not treat all students equally in providing these crucial training experiences and relies on taxpayer funds to impose race- and sex-based eligibility criteria across various clinical clerkships and scholarship programming\u2014including, for example, clinical experiences in the specialties of dermatology, orthopedics, pediatrics, plastic surgery, and general medicine.<\/p>\n

Additionally, in late December 2024, WILL challenged the Ohio-based, top-ranking pediatric hospital, Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center for similar discriminatory practices imposed in its education, training, and scholarship programs.<\/p>\n

Because these programs at Cincinnati Children\u2019s and Johns Hopkins discriminate against students based on race, and are racially motivated to prioritize race and racial politics in an effort to \u201cbalance\u201d populations by race, both health systems have violated the anti-discrimination provisions of Title VI and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).<\/p>\n

On March 10, 2025, in letters to WILL, HHS stated that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) \u201chas determined that [it] has jurisdiction over [WILL\u2019s] allegation[s],\u201d and \u201c[t]herefore, OCR will initiate an investigation\u201d into both Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati Children\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in September 2024, following a complaint filed by WILL and DNH, HHS announced that it would place the Cleveland Clinic under a pending federal investigation concerning the clinic\u2019s operation of multiple programs that segregate, and discriminate against, patients based on race.<\/p>\n

The consequences of non-compliance with anti-discrimination laws can be steep for federally funded healthcare systems. If HHS determines that a healthcare organization has violated Title VI or the ACA, it may require the entity to implement a plan of action to correct its violations. In such cases, if the agency is unable to secure voluntary compliance with anti-discrimination law, HHS may secure compliance through the suspension or termination of federal financial assistance\u2014funding that often makes up a sizeable share of a health system\u2019s overall budget.\u00a0Alternatively, to obtain compliance, HHS may also refer the matter to the Department of Justice with a recommendation to initiate enforcement proceedings\u2014an option that may similarly result in the termination of federal financial assistance.<\/p>\n

WILL\u2019s Roadmap to Equality:\u00a0President Trump has promised an unprecedented rollback of unconstitutional DEI policies across the federal government. With this in mind, WILL officially launched \u201cThe Roadmap to Equality\u201d earlier this year to provide a one-stop resource to the Trump Administration, allowing them to easily identify these programs, policies, and regulations, and then terminate, settle, or investigate them. This effort also includes numerous civil rights complaints against unconstitutional programs in the government, non-profit, and healthcare sectors. Our hope is to help implement a new, once-in-a-generation policy of equality and fairness for all Americans.<\/p>\n

Read more:
HHS Notice of Investigation \u2013 Johns Hopkins, 3.10.25<\/a>
HHS Notice of Investigation \u2013 Cincinnati Children\u2019s, 3.10.25<\/a>
Federal Officials Open Investigation into Cleveland Clinic for Discriminatory Healthcare Programs<\/a>
WILL Seeks to Hold Top-Ranking Cincinnati, Ohio Hospital Accountable for Discriminatory Medical Education and Training Programs<\/a><\/p>\n

More about WILL\u2019s Equality Under the Law Project can be found here:\u00a0DefendEquality.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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