An interesting piece with an anti sprawl theme

 

University Hospitals' Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood tries to balance evidence-based design with sprawl

 

Architects have tried for centuries to come up with the perfect rulebook for design excellence.

 

The new University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center at Chagrin Highlands in Beachwood, which started admitting patients earlier this month, is perhaps the most complete local test yet of a new theory - evidence-based design - which argues that rigorous scientific research shows how good design can help patients heal more quickly and at lower cost than traditional hospital design.

 

The result at Ahuja - named for its principal benefactor, UH board Chairman Monte Ahuja, his wife, Usha, and their family - is both a hit and a miss.

 

The $298 million, 144-bed facility is an intensely rational and compassionate effort to create a state-of-the-art healing environment.

 

http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2011/02/university_hospitals_ahuja_med.html

Lyndhurst couple gives $17 million to UH Rainbow for new adolescent & young adult cancer institute

Published: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 8:00 PM   

Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer

 

CLEVELAND, OHIO -- More than 400 people who gathered Tuesday night at a private house in Gates Mills were the first to hear a big announcement: a local couple was giving a $17 million gift to University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.

 

The gift, from Char and Chuck Fowler, along with their daughters Holley Martens and Chann Spellman, is for the creation of the Angie Fowler Child & Young Adult Cancer Institute. It is the largest individual gift in Rainbow's history, and part of UH's $1 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign, publicly launched late last year.

 

The Fowlers, of Lyndhurst, say they hope their gift will help attract more research geared toward the adolescent and young adult -- generally recognized as patients ages 13 to 29 -- cancer patient population. Patients in their 20s are treated both at Rainbow and at UH Seidman Cancer Center.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2011/07/lyndhurst_couple_gives_17_mill.html

Whoever does the fundraising for UH is really good at their job...

University Hospitals receives $50 million gift to advance drug development

 

By TIMOTHY MAGAW

8:00 pm, February 28, 2012

 

University Hospitals on Tuesday night officially launched a $250 million effort aimed at bolstering the development of new drugs.

 

Anchored by a $50 million donation — the largest in the health system's nearly 150-year history — from local philanthropist Ron Harrington and his family, the initiative's structure is expected to help entrepreneurial physicians advance their discoveries to clinical trials, rather than let the ideas founder in their early stages due to a lack of money.

 

“This is going to mean a lot of potential jobs, a lot of potential new business ventures, and it will bring physician-scientists into the Cleveland community like nothing has before,” said Mr. Harrington, whose family was involved in the growth and sale of Edgepark Medical, a medical supplies company in Twinsburg. The Harringtons also donated $22.6 million in 2008 for the health system's cardiovascular institute.

 

http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120228/FREE/120229831

 

 

University Hospitals touts new drug development model with $250M initiative

 

Don’t tell University Hospitals that the valley of death doesn’t exist for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies

 

The Cleveland-area health system has launched a new $250 million project that it’s touting as something that could become a national model for developing promising drugs and bringing them to market.

 

http://www.medcitynews.com/2012/02/university-hospitals-touts-new-drug-development-model-with-250m-initiative/?edition=ohio

UH to open Level 1 trauma center on main campus to serve East Side

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio — University Hospitals plans to open Northeast Ohio's second Level 1 trauma center this fall, to serve patients on the East Side that the health system says should have faster and closer access to the highest level of trauma care.

 

The only other Level 1 trauma center in the area is at MetroHealth Medical Center's main campus on Cleveland's near West Side.

 

For years, MetroHealth and the Cleveland Clinic, which together run the regional trauma network called the Northern Ohio Trauma System, or NOTS, have said that one of these high-level centers in the area is enough. Level 1 trauma centers, which require special staff on hand 24 hours a day, are equipped to treat the most serious traumas such as car accident and gunshot injuries.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2015/05/uh_to_open_level_1_trauma_cent.html#incart_m-rpt-1

^Outstanding...... especially with Huron Hospital no longer providing Level 2

University Hospitals to assume sole ownership of St. John Medical Center in Westlake

August 31, 2015 UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

By TIMOTHY MAGAW

 

University Hospitals plans to take sole ownership of St. John Medical Center, a 204-bed, full-service Catholic hospital in Westlake that it has co-owned with the Sisters of Charity Health System since 1999.

 

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the agreement is expected to be finalized within 60 days, pending regulatory approval. At present, UH and the Sisters are 50-50 partners in the venture. Proceeds from the sale, according to a news release, will be reinvested into the Sisters’ other ministries in Ohio and South Carolina.

 

As part of the transfer, UH and the Sisters said in a news release that the “legacy of Catholic health care” would continue under UH’s ownership, and the system will work with Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon “to create a mission and values committee to ensure that all of the vital components of the hospital’s Catholic identity continue.”

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150831/NEWS/150839977/university-hospitals-to-assume-sole-ownership-of-st-john-medical

University Hospitals opens Level 1 trauma center Tuesday; region hospitals pledge to put aside rivalries

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2015/11/university_hospitals_opens_level_1_trauma_center_tuesday_region_hospitals_pledge_to_put_aside_rivalries.html#incart_m-rpt-1

I know it's a bit old news now, but this is the email that went out to all UH staff this past Wednesday:

 

Forbes Names University Hospitals One of America’s Dream Employers

https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-dream-employers/

 

UH came in at #9 out of 500

 

Other Ohio based businesses: 

#65 Akron Children's Hospital

#87 Cardinal Health 

#102 Cincinnati Children's Hospital

#106 Cleveland Clinic

#189 Designer Brands

#196 Cleveland State University

#206 Victoria's Secret

#230 Hyland Software

#244 Medical Mutual of Ohio

#337 Progressive Insurance

#359 Heinen's Grocery Store

#408 CrossCountry Mortgage

#415 Bath & Body Works

#424 Ohio State University Columbust

#432 American Electric Power

#441 Procter & Gamble