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CLEVELAND (WJW) — The MetroHealth System Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted to immediately install Dr. Christine Alexander-Rager as president and CEO with a contract lasting through 2025.
Alexander-Rager has practiced family medicine with MetroHealth for nearly 30 years and has been acting chief executive since late July.
“Dr. Alexander-Rager cares deeply about this institution, our employees and our community,” Dr. E. Harry Walker, Board of Trustees chair, is quoted in the release. “In her 27 years at MetroHealth as a primary care physician, she has always put our patients’ well-being at the center of every decision, every initiative and every moment of care. Her vision for MetroHealth and her deep commitment to our mission make her the ideal leader to guide us forward.”
Alexander-Rager earned her medical degree from Ohio State University and completed her residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. She also completed fellowships at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
She served as chair of family medicine at MetroHealth for 14 years. She’s also the founder of the hospital system’s School Health Program, which brought in-school clinics, mobile units and other services to students and families in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
She also served as president of the system’s medical staff from February 2022 to February 2024.
“There is no group of caregivers more devoted, more caring and more committed to patients and to our community than MetroHealth’s 9,000 caregivers,” Alexander-Rager is quoted in the release. “It is an honor to be leading them and to be guiding our health system into the future.”
Alexander-Rager replaces former president and CEO Dr. Airica Steed, whom the board fired in August, citing unmet expectations. Steed started the job in January 2023. She claimed her firing was without cause and happened while she was on medical leave.
Steed replaced former president and CEO Akram Boutros, fired in November 2022 and accused in an independent audit of concealing $1.9 million in unauthorized bonuses he gave to himself. Boutros claimed the firing was in retaliation for his exposure of board misconduct.
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