About Cleveland Clinic’s Office of Corporate Compliance and Business Ethics

Cleveland Clinic’s Office of Corporate Compliance & Business Ethics is responsible for implementing and overseeing our organization’s enterprise-wide compliance program. The purpose of our compliance program is to ensure that our organization follows laws, regulations, and ethical standards governing all aspects of our operations, while maintaining the trust of our patients, caregivers, and business partners alike. Our robust compliance program ensures that all caregivers have education, training, and tools necessary to remain compliant.

We encourage anyone to contact our office directly with any compliance-related questions or concerns.

Contact Corporate Compliance via phone at 216.444.1709, via email at [email protected], or via our anonymous reporting hotline 1.800.826.9294.

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct helps to ensure that we conduct ourselves with integrity and stay true to our values. The Code of Conduct is our organization’s North Star for compliance and ethics, guiding our workforce to make ethical and appropriate choices. It conveys the principles that govern our activities and establishes accountability for compliance with all legal and ethical obligations, including those related to anti-corruption and the prevention of fraud, waste and abuse.

Cleveland Clinic requires all caregivers to review and acknowledge our Code of Conduct as part of the onboarding process and again annually for the duration of their tenure.

Our commitment to maintaining the highest ethical standards and transparency supports our ability to innovate, attract and retain talent, and deliver the highest quality of care.

Research Misconduct

Cleveland Clinic is committed to upholding the highest principles of scientific integrity while protecting against scientific fraud and misconduct.

Research misconduct is defined as the fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in proposing, performing or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.

  • Fabrication is the making up of data or results and the recording or reporting of them.
  • Falsification is the manipulation of research materials, equipment or processes, or the changing or omitting of data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the “research record.”
  • Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit.

Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion, authorship disputes, protocol deviations, or other types of professional misconduct.

Reporting Research Misconduct

Questions or concerns about potential research misconduct should be directed to [email protected].