Exterior of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Mandel’s Robert Fischer discusses MetroHealth System board decision

MetroHealth approves year-old meeting minutes from timeframe of search for the successor to CEO Dr. Akram Boutros
cleveland.comRobert Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed a move by the MetroHealth System board to approve minutes from five committee meetings that happened months ago after issues were raised by an internal audit. “What is the best practice is correcting an omission, but for it to take this long is really out of the norm,” Fischer said. “Approving this much later just weakens the verified accuracy of minutes. That’s the problem.”