In covering the county-owned MetroHealth Medical Center, Tribble has reported the hospital's failings and,in the end, motivated leadership to change its contracting procedure and improve board governance. Tribble was also the first to catch a social media trend when she reported about a national health insurance company's efforts to monitor customer comments on Twitter and the swift results Twitter users got. She also called out the region's second largest non-profit health system for failing to clearly tell patients about its charity care and for seeming to intentionally confuse customers about eligibility.
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