June 3, 200916 yr Also, very interesting news: http://www.medcitynews.com/index.php/2009/06/cleveland-clinic-researcher-surprised-by-and-grateful-for-nih-grant-to-develop-breast-cancer-vaccine/ Cleveland Clinic researcher surprised by (and grateful for) NIH grant to develop breast cancer vaccine June 2, 2009 by Mary Vanac Filed under Feature, Innovation, Top Story Vincent K. Tuohy CLEVELAND, Ohio — Vince Tuohy was surprised — and grateful — when the National Institutes of Health agreed to back development of his breast cancer vaccine after his first request. The Cleveland Clinic immunologist who studies autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis says study groups at the NIH usually make researchers submit grant proposals again and again before agreeing to fund them. This time, Tuohy and his collaborators took home the prize on their first try. “We never even tried to get funded for this,” Tuohy said about his lab’s novel approach to developing a breast cancer vaccine. “Nowadays, it usually takes us two or three submissions to get funded” by the NIH, he said. “This time, we were pretty surprised, pretty happy that they decided to fund us.” Tuohy’s lab is getting $1.3 million to continue to develop a vaccine that has succeeded since 2002 to keep female mice from getting breast cancer. The first two years of the grant will come from $10.4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money that the national institutes received earlier this year. Tuohy, who also teaches at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, has been told by the Clinic that his grant is the first economic stimulus money to be received by the institution. The second two years of the grant will come from the National Cancer Institute, Tuohy said. “So that will help us a lot with the mouse work,” he said.
June 12, 200916 yr CC always seems to be a step ahead.. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2009/06/cleveland_clinic_ceo_delivers.html Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove delivers health-care prescription to Congress by Sabrina Eaton/Plain Dealer Washington Bureau Friday June 12, 2009, 11:28 AM WASHINGTON — As government health-care reform efforts reach a fever pitch over the summer, experts from Northeast Ohio and across the country will deliver their own reform prescriptions to Washington. Today, it was Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos "Toby" Cosgrove's turn. He was among two dozen participants in a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing that included representatives from business, the insurance industry, hospitals, academia, medical groups, organized labor, and state government. Activists for the elderly and disabled also participated in the two days of hearings. Cosgrove told the committee that the clinic reduces costs by operating as a group practice, which aligns the financial interests of the hospital and its physicians, allowing them to better deploy resources on patients' behalf. He said there's no profit motive for his doctors to order expensive or unnecessary procedures...
June 15, 200915 yr Some nice PR for the Clinic's wellness program in Time magazine. http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1903618,00.html
June 18, 200915 yr http://www.cleveland.com/medical/index.ssf/2009/06/rainbow_babies_and_childrens_h.html Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital again garner high rankings from U.S. News & World Reports by Brie Zeltner/Plain Dealer Reporter Thursday June 18, 2009, 12:00 AM For the second year in a row, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital has ranked second in the nation in neonatal care based on U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of childrens hospitals. Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital maintained its No. 4 ranking in neurology and neurosurgery, and both hospitals landed in the top 30 in the country in eight pediatric specialties. Instead, it ranks the top 30 programs in 10 pediatric subspecialties. This new system, which includes scores in four new specialties, is closer to the one used for adult hospitals...
June 19, 200915 yr CNN giving Cleveland Clinic some love: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/19/sotu.cleveland.clinic/ King: Cleveland Clinic pushes into future By John King CNN Chief National Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- As he walks the halls of the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Steven Nissen makes the next generation of health care in America sound quite simple. "Everything that we do is done with the patient at the center of the picture, not the doctor at the center," Nissen says as he takes a visitor on a tour of the clinic's world-renowned cardiac center. The clinic is consistently among the country's best in quality ratings, and its costs are among the lowest -- which is why President Obama often cites the Cleveland Clinic as an example of how health care in America should be, and why Nissen and other leading doctors here are frequently consulted by lawmakers and administration officials pushing major reforms this year....
July 2, 200915 yr Cleveland Clinic to give employees raises next month, bolstering payroll by $60 million a year Posted by Sarah Jane Tribble/Plain Dealer Reporter July 01, 2009 17:05PM Categories: Cleveland Clinic The Cleveland Clinic announced late Wednesday that it will give an average 3 percent pay raise to about 35,000 full- and part-time employees, sending a jolt through the health system and raising the prospect of a boost to the battered regional economy. More at Cleveland.com: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/cleveland_clinic_to_give_out_p.html
July 10, 200915 yr Cleveland Clinic launches its own WebMD July 9, 2009 by Chris Seper Filed under Feature, Innovation, Top Story CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Clinic today unveiled Clevelandclinichealth.com, the hospital’s health-and-wellness portal and the latest in a string of online creations in the past year. More health-care institutions have tried to turn their medical knowledge outward as they witness the success of social media and sites like WedMD. A site like MayoClinic.com is the standard bearer for the concept. And for nearly 15 years Case Western Reserve University, the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University have developed the health-care question-and-answer site NetWellness. The Clinic’s site, which redirects readers to a section of ClevelandClinic.org, culls the information from many of its print and other online publications, draws from a video database, includes an alphabetic index of health problems and intersperses personal stories about diseases... http://www.medcitynews.com/index.php/2009/07/cleveland-clinic-launches-its-own-webmd-or-mayocliniccom/
July 13, 200915 yr http://www.medcitynews.com/index.php/2009/07/cleveland-clinic-lou-ruvo-center-for-brain-health-opens-in-las-vegas/ Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opens in Las Vegas July 13, 2009 by Mary Vanac Filed under Community, Top Story LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health will accept its first patients today. The highly specialized clinical center will aim at advancing research, early detection and treatment of neurological diseases, according to the Cleveland Clinic, which in February agreed to staff and manage the center. Diseases to be treated include Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease. Las Vegas businessman and philanthropist Larry Ruvo began planning the center after his father, Lou Ruvo, died in 1994, a victim of Alzheimer’s disease. Larry Ruvo wanted to create a cognitive disease centerwhere compassionate care would go hand-in-hand with cutting-edge treatments, and sophisticated research would be combined with education for caregivers...
July 13, 200915 yr well this is a nice thing and will probably be a profit center. All those idiots who moved to Lost Wages, thinking it was the next big boom town, ought to have their heads checked!
July 14, 200915 yr http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2009/07/cleveland_doctors_appear_often.html Cleveland doctors appear often on MSNBC's new 'Dr. Nancy' show by Kaye Spector/Plain Dealer Reporter Tuesday July 14, 2009, 6:43 AM Healthy Cleveland / Vital Signs Doctors from University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic have been all over the new MSNBC show "Dr. Nancy," which began airing June 30. In the first 10 days of Dr. Nancy Snyderman's show on health-care issues, show, Cleveland-area doctors appeared seven times...
July 20, 200915 yr Obama at the CC: President Obama to visit Cleveland Clinic on Thursday as part of health-care reform push by Mark Naymik Monday July 20, 2009, 9:17 AM President Barack Obama is expected to visit the Cleveland Clinic Thursday as part of his campaign to promote health-care reform. More at: http://www.cleveland.com/naymik/index.ssf/2009/07/president_obama_to_visit_cleve.html
July 20, 200915 yr I hope everything is OK with your grandfather. Obama is going to be all over NEO- CC, Shaker High.... well that it's.
December 11, 200915 yr It's sort of construction, sort of remodeling, but methinks it fits better here... I recall hearing during the grand opening of the Glickman tower and the Miller Pavilion that there would be shops all throughout the ground floors of the new construction. Nearly a year after the buildings' grand opening most of the shops have finally come online. New/updated shops include: Douzen-a sushi bar Joseph Beth Book Store and gift shop Starbucks new and renovated with seating Au Bon Pain a second location with seating for ~100 Green Roots Collection environmentally friendly clothing shop 360-5 Wellness Store a smelly lotion store Key Bankp/b] yep a bank branch For a mostly accurate map of the new stuff http://my.clevelandclinic.org/Documents/Patients/shopsdiningmap.pdf The place looks like an airport mall! Additionally, word on the street is that McDonalds' lease is expiring soon and they will be gone.
December 11, 200915 yr It's sort of construction, sort of remodeling, but methinks it fits better here... I recall hearing during the grand opening of the Glickman tower and the Miller Pavilion that there would be shops all throughout the ground floors of the new construction. Nearly a year after the buildings' grand opening most of the shops have finally come online. New/updated shops include: Douzen-a sushi bar Joseph Beth Book Store and gift shop Starbucks new and renovated with seating Au Bon Pain a second location with seating for ~100 Green Roots Collection environmentally friendly clothing shop 360-5 Wellness Store a smelly lotion store For a mostly accurate map of the new stuff http://my.clevelandclinic.org/Documents/Patients/shopsdiningmap.pdf The place looks like an airport mall! Additionally, word on the street is that McDonalds' lease is expiring soon and they will be gone. Do these stores have a street level entrance?
December 11, 200915 yr Nope, its all inside the buildings with no outside signage. I think it is literally based on an airport sky mall somewhere. {Slightly off topic} Some of the new shops are being put in to offset the eventual closing and demolition of the Guesthouse, across euclid. They have already begun to demolish the older buildings behind (north) of the guesthouse... my thought is someday soon a nice new office/garage building will mirror the one on the west side of the reflecting pools.
December 11, 200915 yr No. Nope, its all inside the buildings with no outside signage. I think it is literally based on an airport sky mall somewhere. {Slightly off topic} Some of the new shops are being put in to offset the eventual closing and demolition of the Guesthouse, across euclid. They have already begun to demolish the older buildings behind (north) of the guesthouse... my thought is someday soon a nice new office/garage building will mirror the one on the west side of the reflecting pools. I didn't think so and that is such a shame.
December 12, 200915 yr Cleveland Clinic lost money in 2008, plans to add jobs next year By Sarah Jane Tribble, The Plain Dealer December 12, 2009, 10:06AM Tracy Boulian, The Plain Dealer Cleveland clinic will add 1,800 jobs in 2010 to help with the increase in patients. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- After losing $62 million in 2008 and tightening its financial belt throughout 2009, the Cleveland Clinic is poised to add 1,800 new jobs ranging from doctors to support staff in 2010. The bulk of those jobs -- 1,600 -- are slated to be at the main campus in Cleveland's University Circle, bringing a vital infusion of salaries and people to the rust-belt city. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/cleveland_clinic_lost_money_in.html
December 12, 200915 yr The writer of the article just had to stick "rust-belt city" in there, huh? People just won't let that die. Great news overall, however. I'm glad to see that this town is experiencing some job growth with all of the additions we will see within the next year.
January 15, 201015 yr Great to see them continuing to expand, but I don't want to see it at the expense of Cleveland's Main Campus. What impact does everyone think thsi will have on international patient referrals coming to Cleveland? ‘Medical mecca’ endorsed by Top 30 Las Vegas movers and shakers It may well have been one of the most important and defining moments in the history of Las Vegas. The “secret summit” that I revealed exclusively yesterday here at Vegas DeLuxe was a major success, and Mayor Oscar Goodman, rival hotel chiefs and Cleveland Clinic doctors agreed that ambitious plans for a “medical mecca” will move forward on a specific timetable. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jan/14/medical-mecca-endorsed-top-30-las-vegas-movers-and/
March 7, 201015 yr With Las Vegas city leaders' urging, Cleveland Clinic considers further expansion out west By Sarah Jane Tribble, The Plain Dealer March 07, 2010, 9:00AM LAS VEGAS -- In this desert town known for gambling and good times, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is spurring intense hope for a different kind of economic future. The once-booming local economy, largely dependent on the hospitality industry, has seen the number of visitors slow in recent years. Construction cranes along the famous Strip sit idle, Las Vegas' home foreclosure rates are among the nation's highest, and unemployment hit 13.1 percent in December. So when the Clinic accepted the brain center as a gift last year and decided to expand the health system's neurological research and clinical practice there, local leaders immediately began to ask for an even stronger marriage. http://www.cleveland.com/medical/index.ssf/2010/03/cleveland_clinic_could_expand.html
April 6, 201015 yr Full steam ahead for the Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland Clinic picks new leader for $1.25B fundraising campaign The Cleveland Clinic has hired a heavy-hitter in the world of major philanthropic campaigns as Institutional Relations and Development chairman, and executive director of its $1.25 billion fund-raising campaign. Armando Chardiet, who joins the Clinic on July 1, replaces Carol Moss, who left in August as its top fund-raising executive to take a similar position at the University of California San Francisco. Chardiet comes to the Clinic as it gears up to spend an all-time high of $848 million on capital investments and hire 1,800 workers this year. Chardiet will be responsible for leading the philanthropic initiatives and capital campaigns for the health system, including Todays Innovations, Tomorrows Healthcare, the Cleveland Clinics five-year philanthropic campaign to raise $1.25 billion. http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/04/cleveland-clinic-picks-new-leader-for-1-25b-fundraising-campaign/
May 19, 201015 yr Architecture review: Frank Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic May 19, 2010 Reporting from Las Vegas Frank Gehry's buildings can look unfinished or unruly — even a bit chaotic. But they often have surprisingly direct metaphorical stories to tell. Walt Disney Concert Hall is a joyously informal ship of state for a city keen to come together, if only for a few hours, in a collective experience. Gehry's own house in Santa Monica, a modest pink bungalow the architect wrapped in colliding layers of corrugated metal and chain link, is an unabashed affirmation of the workaday, un-pretty built landscape of Southern California. In the case of Gehry's newest project, the riotously sculptural $100-million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, the story is about the depths — and ultimately the limits — of the human mind. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-gehry-vegas-20100519,0,5357916.story
May 31, 201015 yr Some good news for the holiday... Breast cancer vaccine to go on trial within a year Dr Tuohy, of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said: "Tumours are like drunks in a bar, saying and doing things they shouldn't and one of these things is expressing (making) alpha-lactalbumin and we are taking advantage of that." Finding similar proteins for other cancers, such as bowel or prostate tumours, could lead to vaccines against other diseases. more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7786916/Breast-cancer-vaccine-to-go-on-trial-within-a-year.html
June 1, 201015 yr This alone could lock CC even more into the elite status of the research community...BRAVO and hope to see a finished prodect soon. Seriously, Cleveland would be known as the place that cured/prevented cancer.
June 2, 201015 yr Cleveland Clinic could launch wellness businesses, franchise 6.2.10 | Mary Vanac | Cleveland, Ohio The Cleveland Clinic is considering launching two wellness businesses and a franchise of disease reversal centers — the latest evidence that the institution known worldwide for its heart care is taking a leading position in the $100 billion wellness industry. Dr. Michael Roizen, the Clinic’s chief wellness officer and leader of its Wellness Institute, is working to spin off the health system’s first wellness businesses — a natural beauty Web site based on his YOU: Being Beautiful book with co-author Dr. Mehmet Oz and an email-based wellness coaching business. “We’re exploring how to start a conversation around beauty that is not purely esthetically driven, but a holistic, healthy approach to beauty,” said Steve Lindseth, a serial information technology entrepreneur who as part of the Clinic’s 18-member Industrial Advisory Board is looking into the commercial merits of both businesses. http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/06/cleveland-clinic-becoming-a-driver-of-100b-wellness-industry/
June 23, 201014 yr Cleveland Clinic nets federal funds for research facility revamp June 23, 2010 The Taussig Cancer Institute at the Cleveland Clinic has been awarded more than $2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the renovation and expansion of its translational cancer research facilities. The National Center for Research Resources, which is part of NIH, awarded the grant. The funds will be used to update 3,600 square feet of laboratory space that was built on the clinic's main campus in 1928. The space was last renovated in the 1950s. Renovations will include a shared instrumentation room that will free up an additional 500 square feet to allow for more bench research. The expanded laboratory area also will allow for the recruitment of up to four new independent researchers, a dozen technical support positions, and an administrative assistant. http://www.cancernetwork.com/display/article/10165/1597041
July 16, 201014 yr Cleveland Clinic continues to expand it's brand: FIU medical students to train at Cleveland Clinic http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/16/1733023/fiu-medical-students-to-train.html Central DuPage Hospital forms partnership with renowned Cleveland Clinic http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-15/business/ct-biz-0716-cleveland-clinic-20100715_1_cleveland-clinic-heart-care-heart-surgeries
September 9, 201014 yr It looks like this will be a very sustainable gift, and outside the region too! $10 million gift creates leadership academy at Cleveland Clinic Published: Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 10:59 PM Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Clinic, which already has a strong reputation for grooming leaders from within, will soon provide training to would-be executives from outside the organization. The Clinic on Wednesday announced a $10 million gift that will establish the Samson Global Leadership Academy for Health Care Executives. The new academy will offer intense two-week leadership training sessions beginning in late 2011. It is named after South African steel executive Eric Samson and his wife, Sheila. Eric Samson came to the Clinic 10 years ago for heart surgery -- performed by Clinic President and Chief Executive Delos "Toby" Cosgrove. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/09/10_million_gift_creates_leader.html
September 14, 201014 yr A nice little write-up on the Cleveland Clinic: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-financial-and-business-news/7-reasons-cleveland-clinics-heart-program-is-the-best-in-the-country.html
September 29, 201014 yr Wednesday September 29, 2010 Home Cleveland Clinic researchers snare $11.65 million grant for 'good' cholesterol study By TIMOTHY MAGAW 1:00 pm, September 29, 2010 Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic have snagged an $11.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study why “good” cholesterol sometimes goes bad. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20100929/FREE/100929816
October 4, 201014 yr Chris Coburn: Captain of the Cleveland Clinic Innovations crew Chris Coburn is the captain of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the corporate venturing arm of the Cleveland Clinic. The 53-year-old fitness enthusiast and his crew have an important job: nurturing inventions that emerge from several thousand scientists and doctors at the nation’s top heart hospital, and guiding them through a years-long process to commercial viability, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Known simply as Cleveland Clinic Innovations (CCI), the group of more than 35 people recently started their second decade with a first-of-its-kind venture ranking, a brand-new incubator building and a growing portfolio of spin-out companies. Perhaps most impressive, those companies ’ 33 in all ’ have attracted more than $340 million in follow-on funding from other investors. About two weeks ago, Arterial Remodeling Technologies, a French company whose technology was developed in part by the Cleveland Clinic, said it raised $8.5 million in venture capital funding to further develop its biodegradable stents. By the way, the group got their Third Frontier Grant. And Coburn and his staff moved into the resulting technology incubator — the $19-million, 50,000-square-foot Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center on the southern edge of the Clinics main campus — in April. http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/10/chris-coburn-captain-of-the-cleveland-clinic-innovations-crew/
October 15, 201014 yr Outrage over trauma plans, Cleveland Clinic to close trauma unit at Huron Hospital There is outrage on Cleveland's east side over plans to close the trauma unit at Huron Hospital. "I'm hot, I'm mad, I'm disappointed with Cleveland Clinic," said Cleveland City Councilman Kevin Conwell. Huron Hospital is located in East Cleveland, and is the closest trauma unit to people who live in Conwell's ward in Cleveland. The clinic plans to consolidate the Huron trauma unit with Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights. It's part of its partnership with MetroHealth to develop a trauma system that sends patients to the right place for the right type of care. The clinic says the consolidation will improve care by having expertise in one place. Hillcrest was chosen because it has a new emergency room and has better highway access. FULL STORY: http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsnet5/newsnet5_ts3905 The sad truth is that with the population shifts of the past several decades, Hillcrest is probably a more "central" location for an east side trauma center. I also suspect that this could open the door for UH to open a trauma center on its UC campus. I hope this is not a sign that Huron will eventually be phased out. That would decimate EC (if further decimation is even possible).
October 15, 201014 yr ^The Clinic is currently adding a 20 million or so addition to Huron which does not suggest it is being phased out. Where is the need greatest for a trauma center. I would imagine serious gun shot wounds play a major role (along with serious car accidents). You would think the need would be greater in East Cleveland and the East Side of Cleveland as compared to Mayfield, Gates Mills and the far east side suburbs.
October 15, 201014 yr True... but isn't Huron a trauma II unit? The most serious emergencies go to Metro and its trauma I unit anyways, no? And, like I said, this may provide UH with the opportunity to become a major player in the ER business around here.
October 15, 201014 yr My guess is that nobody wants to be a major player in the trauma business, especially not for gunshot wounds in poor neighborhoods. That's charity care.
October 15, 201014 yr True... but isn't Huron a trauma II unit? The most serious emergencies go to Metro and its trauma I unit anyways, no? And, like I said, this may provide UH with the opportunity to become a major player in the ER business around here. UH's ER isn't considered a Trauma Center. Rainbow is a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center. Metro is the only Level I Trauma Center in Greater Cleveland (and is also a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center). (Fairview, Huron, and Hillcrest are Level II, St. John's West Shore and Southwest General are Level III.)
January 24, 201114 yr This is HUGE news for the Clinic and its innovation and commercialization ambitions: Prominent hand surgeon returns to Clinic to lead Innovations unit: Cleveland Portraits Published: Monday, January 24, 2011, 5:45 AM By Brie Zeltner, The Plain Dealer Graham began his career at the Cleveland Clinic in 1994 and left six years later to head the Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore, only the third person to hold the position since the center opened in 1947. He returned to the hospital in June to serve as chairman of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the corporate venturing unit that commercializes Clinic inventions, and as vice chairman of orthopedic surgery. Graham has more than two dozen patents in his field, including the most commonly used elbow-replacement system on the market. He will use his expertise to help turn the ideas of Clinic physicians into marketable products. The surgeon's connections in Maryland have already brought about a new relationship for Cleveland Clinic Innovations: Last week, the department partnered with MedStar Health, a nine-hospital system that serves the Maryland and Washington, D.C., region, to develop the ideas of that system's physicians. Graham had been working on the deal since his arrival and hopes that it will lead to further collaboration. "It seemed like a natural marriage," said Graham, who will spend about 70 percent of his time focused on the Innovations position and the rest on his surgical practice. "I think it will bear fruit in commercialization opportunities and clinical sharing, enhance scientific inquiry and impact both communities." http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2011/01/prominent_hand_surgeon_returns.html
March 4, 201114 yr Cleveland Cleveland Clinic CEO: Health reform will cost us $174M in 2015 In his annual "State of the Clinic" address, Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove said the federal health reform law would cost the health system $174 million in revenue in 2015. The primary reason for the hit to the Clinic's revenue is that reimbursement rates from both government and private payers aren't keeping pace with inflation. At the same time, hospitals must report a growing number of quality metrics related to their care, Cosgrove said. "The new healthcare reform bill means we're going to have to do better with less," Cosgrove said, according to Crain's Cleveland Business. Cosgrove has previously said the controversial health reform package, which passed last year, would increase the Clinic's costs. But Wednesday's address may be the first time Cosgrove has quantified the financial hit the hospital would take as a result of the law. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localcle/20110303/ts_yblog_localcle/cleveland-cleveland-clinic-ceo-health-reform-will-cost-us-174m-in-2015
March 19, 201114 yr Cleveland Clinic to lease space in Kamm's Corners office building CLEVELAND A federal investment to renovate a Kamm’s Corners office building has paid off with a long-term tenant. Cleveland Clinic Foundation signed a lease agreement on Monday with the Kamm’s Corners Development Corp. for 6,000 square feet of first-floor office space at 17407 Lorain Ave. Fairview Hospital will immediately relocate about 35 medical billing employees to the two-story building from its single-level Annex 3 building, 17525 Lorain Ave., said Steve Lorenz, KCDC executive director. “We really appreciate our partnership with Fairview Hospital,” he said. “It’s serendipity. They had a need for office space right at the time we had space available.” The Annex 3 building on the south side of Lorain is due to be demolished for parking as part of the hospital’s new emergency department and intensive care unit, located immediately west on Lorain. http://www.cleveland.com/sunpostherald/index.ssf/2011/03/cleveland_clinic_to_lease_spac.html
June 6, 201114 yr Cleveland Clinic to close Huron Hospital -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWSNET 5 By: Garrett Downing CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Clinic announced plans Monday to close Huron Hospital on the city’s east side. The news comes after an evaluation of the hospital by a committee of the hospital’s board of directors and hospital leadership, according to a release from the Clinic. The hospital will close in 90 days, but the facility will continue providing outpatient care until the new Huron Community Health Center is completed Oct. 3. Huron Hospital has about 850 employees, and they will all be offered job opportunities at another location within the Clinic health system, according to the release...
June 6, 201114 yr Mayor Frank Jackson isn't happy. Sounds like legal action may be coming..... http://portal.cleveland-oh.gov/CityofCleveland/Home/PressRelease/prdetail?id=10387 For Immediate Release Press Contact Andrea Taylor Press Secretary Office of the Mayor 216-664-4171 [email protected] Belinda Saldaña Deputy Press Secretary Office of the Mayor 216-664-2223 [email protected] Statement on Closure of Huron Hospital Monday, June 6, 2011 CLEVELAND – In accordance with the settlement agreement between the Cleveland Clinic and the Cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland, we have been engaged in what we believed to have been good faith negotiations regarding the ramifications of the closing of a level two trauma center at Huron Hospital. At no time did the Cleveland Clinic disclose their intent to close the entire hospital. In fact, when asked directly about the future of Huron Hospital, Clinic Officials stated that there was no intention to close the emergency room, let alone the entire facility. The issues associated with a lack of a level two trauma center on the Eastside are real and remain unresolved. The closure of the hospital and its emergency room exacerbates the problem. In fact, during the discussion regarding the level two trauma center, the Cleveland Clinic repeatedly pointed to the existing emergency department as a necessary component of the overall trauma care in the region. Should the closure stand, not only would we be faced with where to send 800 trauma patients, we would face the additional dilemma of where to send 2,200 other emergency patients. • The Division of EMS transported over 3,000 total patients to the Emergency Department at Huron Hospital in 2010, 800 of whom were trauma victims. Those 3,000 ambulance transports will now have to be diverted to other hospitals. • The shift of patients to University Hospitals and the Main Campus of the Cleveland Clinic will result in longer ambulance turn around times which means longer overall response times to all 9-1-1 calls. The other hospital transport options to Euclid or South Pointe Hospitals take the ambulances out of their response areas, creating additional delays in responding to 9-1-1 calls. • The loss of another primary care hospital diminishes our ability to manage mass casualty incidents. The Cleveland Clinic has left the City with little choice but to resume legal action in an effort to protect the public health and safety interest of our community. We, along with the City of East Cleveland, will begin reaching out to all affected parties to determine next steps. # # # "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 7, 201114 yr The Huron Hospital closing story got picked up by the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/health/07care.html?pagewanted=1&hp
June 7, 201114 yr I realize the city can't, politically speaking, afford not to take legal action, but they should save themselves some time and try and negotiate for some concessions in exchange for keeping CCF out of court. I simply don't see how CCF can be expected to operate a hospital that's experienced (per NYTimes) a 25% fall in admissions in an area that is in total, unarrested free-fall. If someone is willing to subsidize them, great, if federal aid is available, great. Go get it. Honestly, I'm flabbergasted by East Cleveland. I know there's a lot of apathy and 'who cares about them' attitude, and I'm guilty as well, but how do things decline that far, that fast? The crime statistics, the population collapse - doesn't it merit some sort of radical state/federal intervention? The community is failing, and the numbers from Huron Hospital show that the CCF isn't going to arrest that fall. It's a symptom, not a cause.
June 7, 201114 yr I don't want to get this off-topic, but I wouldn't say that East Cleveland has declined quickly. This is a 50-year slide. Perhaps we can discuss East Cleveland in a separate thread. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 3, 201113 yr HUGE international conference this week. Here's a link to the conference: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/innovations/summit/ Check out the line up of speakers: Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit opens Monday Published: Sunday, October 02, 2011, 5:40 AM By Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — It's a gathering of technology, medicine and business that over the years has grown in international stature. Now in its ninth year, the assemblage will include machine matching wits with man and various arms of industry associations and competing businesses appearing -- in some cases, for the first time -- side by side. More than 1,000 health-care leaders from across the country are convening in Cleveland this week through Wednesday to discuss emerging cardiovascular technologies at a hospital system widely regarded to have one of the best heart care programs in the world. The Medical Innovation Summit, sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic, opens later today at the InterContinental Hotel on the Clinic's main campus. Registration for the event has closed. The Clinic will announce its list of the top 10 medical innovations for 2012 on Wednesday, the summit's last day. The innovations are culled from nearly 150 medical breakthroughs that Clinic doctors nominated for the honor last spring. The list is meant to signify advances that will most likely reshape health care in the coming year. http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2011/10/cleveland_clinics_medical_inno.html
October 21, 201113 yr I could only wonder what Cleveland Clinic Money could build with 3rd world labor costs, that seems about right!
October 21, 201113 yr I could only wonder what Cleveland Clinic Money could build with 3rd world labor costs, that seems about right! Actually, the UAE government is fronting the money and will own the hospital. The Clinic just runs it for them.
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