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MetroHealth urges Cuyahoga County to maintain $35 million subsidy as charity care soars
Summary
MetroHealth CEO Christine Alexander Rager told the County Council committee MetroHealth faces unprecedented charity and uncompensated-care growth and asked the council to hold the county subsidy at $35 million amid federal and state cuts and rising operating losses.
Christine Alexander Rager, president and CEO of the MetroHealth system, told the Cuyahoga County Committee of the Whole on Nov. 10 that the public hospital is facing unprecedented financial pressure and asked council to maintain its current county subsidy of $35,000,000.
MetroHealth is tracking a steep increase in uncompensated and charity care: Alexander said the system was on track to end the year with about $367,000,000 in uncompensated care and that charity care could rise to about $446,000,000 in 2026. Operating revenue and expenses for the system each exceed $2 billion, and MetroHealth projects a roughly $31,000,000 operating loss for the year, she said. A capital plan for…
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