Concerned about where the hospital was heading and in response to a request from Dr. Christopher Cooper, dean of the medical school at UT, to find out what the South Toledo community wanted from its hospital, Mr. Finkbeiner created the Save UTMC coalition in December, 2019.
That grassroots coalition, led by Mr. Finkbeiner, Dr. Willey, and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2415 President Randy Desposito, began to pressure UT to amend its bylaws and allow nonfaculty physicians to bring some services back to the South Toledo hospital. It also pushed back against the school’s affiliation with ProMedica, and asked state legislators to halt a potential sale of UTMC, which they saw as a community resource that belongs to them, the taxpayer.
The activism worked.
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Imagine South Toledo without its hospital