Dr. Jack Sobel
Dr. Jack Sobel
Hospitals spend lots of money promoting their reputations. The Detroit Medical Center is going to have to spend a lot more to repair the damage from 2016.
Earlier this year, The Detroit News broke a story about the hospital's problem with unsterilized surgical tools. Now this.
Dr. Jack Sobel, Wayne State University School of Medicine dean, said Tuesday the DMC's contributions to the university are so nominal, the school search for other hospital partners to achieve its plan for regional health care, reports Kim Kozlowski and Karen Bouffard of The Detroit News.
“We’ve recognized that our input and the contribution of the DMC to our lives in the medical school has been minimal,” Sobel said during a town hall meeting on Dec. 12 with faculty, staff and students. “They contribute nothing to education, nothing to research on this campus, and it would appear that our cultures are really incompatible.”
Joseph Mullany, CEO of the DMC, told The News he was surprised by Sobel’s comments. They come two months after a WSU physicians group reached a new contract to provide hospital services.
“DMC officials met with Dean Sobel just last week and had a very positive meeting about the future,” Mullany said, according to the News. “But I am not surprised as DMC board members say this has been said for the past 20 years whenever things are going bad at WSU.
