Mecklenburg County commissioners chair Mark Jerrell said he is confident that Atrium Health will share data with him on the racial and ethnic makeup of the first class on the Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s Charlotte campus — but he doesn’t have the numbers yet and doesn’t know if they will be made public.

When hospital leaders announced the new school in 2021, they said they wanted the class to be “one of the most diverse learner bodies in the country.” But as The Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News previously reported, the city’s first four-year medical school has so far declined to release the data, despite a request from Jerrell.

Jerrell, who was quoted saying he would have a problem if Atrium withheld the data, said he subsequently had a long conversation with a top Atrium H

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