STAT+: Harvard funding cuts will largely spare affiliated hospitals, Trump administration says
The head of Mass General Brigham said officials at the Harvard-affiliated health system believe the Trump administration's funding freeze shouldn’t apply to MGB.
Teaching hospitals affiliated with Harvard University will not be affected by the federal government’s decision this week to freeze $2.2 billion in funding to the university, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education.
The spokesperson, Madison Biedermann, said Tuesday morning in a brief statement emailed to the Globe that “the hospitals were not impacted in the freeze,” indicating that the brunt of the cuts would fall on Harvard itself, not its hospital partners.
Shortly after the federal government announced the funding freeze in retaliation for Harvard defying a slew of government demands, the head of Mass General Brigham said officials at the Harvard-affiliated health system believe it shouldn’t apply to MGB.
