County council Tuesday voted unanimously to release only the first three months of the hospital’s annual funding until it’s able to hear from new CEO Airica Steed about how the health system will ensure all funding is used as intended.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Council will be limiting MetroHealth’s annual $32 million subsidy until it has better assurance that the money will be appropriately managed, in the wake of allegations that ex-MetroHealth CEO Akram Boutros gave himself unauthorized bonuses over a five-year period.
“I anticipate that the full annual distribution will be authorized by council for the remainder of 2023, but we will only do so once we are satisfied that county tax dollars are being properly managed,” Jones said during the regular council meeting Tuesday. The decision to limit the funds came after MetroHealth presented its 2023 budget request during Committee of the Whole, hours earlier. The budget mirrored the one Boutros had intended to present before he was fired,to bolster behavioral health and addiction services and seek for their levy subsidy to be restored to the $40 million it once received.
As the safety net hospital, MetroHealth will always provide that care, Greenspan assured council, but the county’s support is still needed to meet the hospital’s financial needs and prevent them having to cut services in other areas. “As you probably can surmise, we’re going to be needing a lot of answers, because there’s going to be a lot more questions that come forth from this body,” Councilman Jack Schron said during the committee meeting. “We have an obligation to taxpayers.”
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