Detroit Medical Center's interventional cardiology program received continued accreditation April 22 after several top program directors were asked to resign or stepped down last year, reports The Detroit News.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education confirmed the program's accreditation after conducting surveys at the hospital last week.
The continued accreditation comes about seven months after three program leaders were asked to step down from leadership roles after an investigation into alleged conduct violations. The physicians allege DMC and its parent company, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, made the staffing changes to retaliate against them for raising concerns about care quality and patient safety. DMC denied these claims.
The hospital attributed its continued accreditation to the cardiology program's new leadership team. However, two of four cardiology fellows slated to start July 1 dropped out of DMC's program and went to competing hospitals in southeast Michigan, two sources familiar with the matter told Crain's Detroit Business. DMC declined the publication's request to comment on the fellows' departures.