Funding Pause to Harvard Will Not Affect Hospitals, Trump Admin Says

Hospitals affiliated with Harvard will not be affected by the Trump administration’s $2.2 billion pause in federal grants and contracts, according to a Department of Education spokesperson.

When the White House announced a $9 billion review of federal funding two weeks ago, it threatened to slash funding from Harvard’s hospital affiliates — but Education Department spokesperson Madison Biedermann confirmed Monday's cut was limited to the University itself.

Just hours after President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced that Harvard would defy the Trump administration’s demands, Mass General Brigham CEO Anne Klibanski wrote in a letter to researchers that the funding threats to the University were “not applicable to our separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals.”

Most teaching hospitals in the country are owned by universities, but Harvard’s affiliated hospitals are independent from the University. Instead, the two institutions have an agreement that the hospitals will teach Harvard Medical School students and Harvard will give hospital physicians appointments at HMS.

Klibanski added in her Monday night letter that officials at MGB were not aware of what impact the funding would have on Harvard affiliated hospitals.

—Staff writer Dhruv T. Patel can be reached at dhruv.patel@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @dhruvtkpatel.

—Staff writer Grace E. Yoon can be reached at grace.yoon@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @graceunkyoon.