This morning Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, Mayor Frank G. Jackson and Mayor Gary Norton met with Dr. Delos "Toby” Cosgrove and other Cleveland Clinic officials at Cleveland City Hall to discuss the continuation of Level II Trauma Service at Huron Hospital. Although the discussion was good, it did not resolve the following areas of great concern and therefore no agreement was reached.

The concerns are as follows:

1. Postponement of the decision to eliminate Level II Trauma Service at Huron Hospital;
2. The continuation of Level II Trauma Service regardless of the reaccreditation process;
3. Convening the stakeholders from The Cleveland Clinic and Metro Health Hospital and the cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland to discuss the issue of Trauma Service in Cleveland, East Cleveland and the Region; and
4. We are also concerned about the future of Huron Hospital in the Cleveland Clinic Health System.

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