That would look splendid on Carnegie in place of the current pedestrian bridges. Too bad.

Hamdan bin Rashid donates $5m to Cleveland Clinic

29 January 2012 DUBAI - Shaikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Deputy Ruler & UAE Minister of Finance, has donated US$ 5 million to the Cleveland Clinic, based in the U.S. State of Ohio. The donation will be used to establish a chair in cardiology research and studies for the benefit of Professor Joe Sabik, who previously performed a successful surgery on Sheikh Hamdan.

 

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2012/January/theuae_January782.xml&section=theuae

Nice to get some of that oil money back! ;)

Cleveland Clinic in this week's Business Week:

 

McDonald’s in Hospitals Targeted by Group Seeking Fast Food End

By Michelle Fay Cortez on April 11, 2012 

 

The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio doesn’t hire smokers, banned trans fats from the food it serves and took sugary soft drinks out of vending machines as part of an effort to emphasize the health in health care. McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) (MCD) may be going next.

 

Corporate Accountability International chided 20 health- care facilities, including the Cleveland Clinic and seven children’s hospitals, for having the fast-food chain on their sites. The consumer group urged the hospitals in a letter yesterday to end their contracts with McDonald’s and “stop fostering a food environment that promotes harm, not health.”

 

McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant operator, has introduced items including apple slices, yogurt and salads to provide healthy offerings to customers concerned about obesity and nutrition. The changes won’t be enough to keep the restaurant at the Cleveland Clinic, one of the nation’s top- rated hospitals, when its 20-year lease soon expires, said Eileen Sheil, a clinic spokeswoman.

 

“We feel as a health-care institution we should walk the talk,” Sheil said today in a telephone interview. “We are doing everything in our power to do that.”

 

McDonald’s offers a variety of options for meals that contain less than one-third the daily recommended levels of total fat, sodium and calories, said Danya Proud, a spokeswoman for the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company. Nutrition and ingredient information is available and the company continues to assess and improve menu choices, she said in an e-mail.

 

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-11/mcdonald-s-in-hospitals-targeted-by-group-seeking-fast-food-end

They wanted to get out of that contract for some time, but it was pretty iron clad from what I understood

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Selects Cleveland Clinic Nursing Innovation Director As 2013 Distinguished Research Lecturer

 

By American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

Published: Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 - 11:06 am

 

"ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 21, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently selected Nancy M. Albert, RN, PhD, CCNS, CCRN, NE-BC, FAHA, FCCM, as its 2013 Distinguished Research Lecturer.....

 

....Albert is senior director of nursing research and innovation for Cleveland Clinic and its Nursing Institute, which oversees the practice and education of more than 11,000 nurses throughout Cleveland Clinic's health system. In this role, she mentors fellow nurses in conducting, translating and disseminating research to increase nursing knowledge of clinical and administrative practices and facilitate evidence-based nursing practices that improve patient outcomes.

 

She remains active as a clinical nurse specialist in Cleveland Clinic's Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, where she uses research results in heart failure-related critical care and cardiac telemetry programs to promote evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality outcomes....."

 

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/21/4745005/american-association-of-critical.html

IBM's Watson to attend med school at Cleveland Clinic...  chosen over 170 med schools...  I know it's the clinic, but wow...  Watson needs its own Twitter page like the Mars Curiosity...

 

IBM's Watson is headed to medical school. IBM and Cleveland Clinic are collaborating to use Watson's deep question-answer technology to help train students on how to come up with proper diagnoses and treatments for patients.

 

http://www.eweek.com/servers/ibm-cleveland-clinic-put-watson-to-work-on-medical-training/

 

Michelle J. McFee ‏@mjarboe 2m

Wow. #CLE's largest employer, @ClevelandClinic, could trim 3,000 jobs via early retirement offer: http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/09/cleveland_clinic_to_cut_330_mi.html#incart_river_default … Via @briezeltner

Michelle J. McFee ‏@mjarboe 2m

Wow. #CLE's largest employer, @ClevelandClinic, could trim 3,000 jobs via early retirement offer: http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2013/09/cleveland_clinic_to_cut_330_mi.html#incart_river_default Via @briezeltner

 

 

The Clinic spokeaperson stated that this was due to healthcare reform putting more of the cost on the patient.

 

Also, after years of growth, alot of companies get bloated.  this could be a result of that. 

Good, then they can provide the non-federal funding share of the Red Line extension to Euclid which will removed 75,000 vehicle-miles of driving from UC streets and help clean the air, thus improving public heath!

 

Cleveland Clinic announces public launch of $2 billion fundraising campaign

The campaign dubbed 'The Power of Every One' will culminate in 2021 -- the health system's 100th anniversary. The massive fundraising effort is one of the largest among nonprofit academic medical centers.

 

READ MORE AT:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20140617/FREE/140619819/1315/newsletter08

Discussion heating up again about Lakewood Hospital closing next year.  I don't intend to feed the rumor mill unnecessarily, but this would not be all that surprising, if true.

Discussion heating up again about Lakewood Hospital closing next year.  I don't intend to feed the rumor mill unnecessarily, but this would not be all that surprising, if true.

Speculation: The Print Edition.

 

Lakewood Hospital Closing, Kind Of

by Jim O'Bryan

 

For the past 4 years Bill Call has been saying that the Cleveland Clinic is closing it doors and pulling out of Lakewood. At first I thought it was crazy talk, after all who wouldn’t want a hospital in the middle of 52,000 residents, right? Then over the past year I have seen scene after scene reminiscent of what we covered when the Cleveland Clinic pulled out of East Cleveland and closed Huron Road Hospital.

 

The announcement was made that Huron Road Hospital was no longer financially viable and that the residents could easily make it to another clinic or hospital in the area. The fact seemed to be that the overhead of treating un-insured patients was dragging Huron Road down, leading to its eventual closing. This is where the waters always get muddy for those not in-the-know.

 

“Aren't hospitals non-profits?” No, they are for-profits with non-profit designation. No business can afford to operate at a loss, and while one would think something as huge as the Cleveland Clinic could afford to be more generous than say Parma Hospital, the last community-owned hospital in the area, which was recently taken over by University Hospitals. Community hospitals, it would seem, are a dying breed.

 

http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2014/12/29/clinic-announces-changes-to-lakewood-hospital-1st-quarter

The clinic has a contract with the city until 2020 I believe and has to maintain some sort of medical facility there until then. When they chose fairview over lakewood for the updates you knew the end was near.

The clinic has a contract with the city until 2020 I believe and has to maintain some sort of medical facility there until then. When they chose fairview over lakewood for the updates you knew the end was near.

 

It's ridiculous that they'd choose one over the other.  West Park and Lakewood combined account for almost 10% of Cuyahoga County's population.  But I guess they're not the right 10%...

Was their expansion atFairview more a byproduct of having the workable space surrounding the location? LH is essentially boxed it.

The writing has been on the wall for Lakewood ever since the Clinic decided to add a hospital at their campus in Avon.  Also, they have invested substantially in Fairview while letting Lakewood languish (since they don't actually own Lakewood, it makes financial sense to invest in the hospital they own I guess).

 

Lakewood Hospital to close for family health center: Q&A (video)

 

on January 15, 2015 at 2:08 PM, updated January 15, 2015 at 6:46 PM

 

LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Cleveland Clinic and the Lakewood Hospital Association will close Lakewood Hospital and replace it with a health center by late 2016, officials said today.

 

That's a decade sooner than a current city contract calls for. But Mayor Mike Summers and hospital officials said during a press conference Thursday that the existing business model of 233 inpatient beds is not sustainable...

 

http://www.cleveland.com/lakewood/index.ssf/2015/01/lakewood_hospital_to_close_in.html#incart_river

 

Euclid Hospital, you'll be next...

 

The Clinic already owns 47 acres in Mentor along I-90 at OH 615 exit (http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2012/12/cleveland_clinic_buys_47-acres.html).  I would look to them to replicate their Avon model by building a "Family Health Center" with ER first.  There is enough land to add a hospital there, and then shutter Euclid in the process.  Fits their business model of locating at/near highway exits in the far suburban reaches (see also Twinsburg/Brunswick ER's).

 

Not sure how Lutheran fits into long-term plans either, but the Clinic is investing a big sum into ER renovation/addition there (http://my.clevelandclinic.org/about-cleveland-clinic/newsroom/releases-videos-newsletters/2013-07-17-lutheran-hospital-begins-construction-on-new-17-5-million-emergency-department-expansion)

^ This news should cross post in the Suburban Sprawl thread.

Good one, surf...

 

 

Is it me, or is this suburban expansion by hospital networks just a bad business model?  I mean, what suburbanite in their right mind is going to say..."I'm not going downtown for that heart transplant.  There are brown folks there."    Or even on a lesser scale, who wouldn't go downtown to see a specialist about their knee, or skin rash?  Its their health right?

 

I can see they are practicing market share prevention, by getting in the faces of the soccer mom masses before their competition does.  But with the future of healthcare uncertain, I wonder if this won't come crashing back down on them in the future?

^ The move to the suburbs is about keeping out the people that don't pay their bill. Oh, and Obamacare.

The move to the suburban health care was happening waaaaaaaay before the ACA

^Seriously.  And I'm pretty sure the Clinic isn't performing heart transplants in any of its suburban outposts.  There are two separate trends going one: one is the consolidation of medical services into two large networks; the second is the sprawl of hospital facilities which is simply following the dispersion of jobs and residents who (reasonably) don't want to drive 15 miles for a simple procedure our outpatient care.

^Seriously.  And I'm pretty sure the Clinic isn't performing heart transplants in any of its suburban outposts.  There are two separate trends going one: one is the consolidation of medical services into two large networks; the second is the sprawl of hospital facilities which is simply following the dispersion of jobs and residents who (reasonably) don't want to drive 15 miles for a simple procedure our outpatient care.

 

Is that "reasonable" though?  Who would forgo an outpatient procedure because it's 15 miles away?  It's not like you pop in on your lunch hour and get a vasectomy!

^Yeah, calling it "reasonable" does just beg the question. I think you're right that it's competition between the networks that convinces them to compete on location in exurbia.

Can you count all of the hospitals in that have closed in Cleveland and the inner-ring suburbs since the 1980s? Here's a few of them:

St. John Hospital (7800 block of Detroit Ave)

St. Lukes (11000 block of Shaker Blvd)

Deaconess (Old Brooklyn)

St. Alexis (5000 block of Broadway)

Huron Road Hospital (East Cleveland)

And now Lakewood Hospital.

 

I'm sure I'm missing some.

 

Let's have a little sense of history and context here before reacting. Only one of these closures has occurred since Obamacare was enacted.

Mt Sinai on East 105th closed since the 80s. I think it was in the late 90s.

Women's General on Chester closed sometime in the early 80s

I need to work on my internet sarcasm, evidently.

Sarcasm is hard to do over the internet evidently.

 

Not if you use emoticons. ;) When e-mail became a thing in the 1990s, I remember fights breaking out because tone of voice was not transmitted in text, giving way to the use of <g> and LOL and <<sarcasm>> and other things that we take for granted today and sometimes forget to use.

Cleveland Clinic is looking for 500 nurses http://t.co/kWkIXphcU4 @LACENTRE702  @ClevelandClinic @Landerhaven

Cleveland Clinic is looking for 500 nurses http://t.co/kWkIXphcU4 @LACENTRE702  @ClevelandClinic @Landerhaven

 

Wow. Good thing Akron and Kent State etc. are churning out all kinds of nurses.

 

The Education majors still deserve our pity!

Meanwhile, Floor-eye-da....

 

Cleveland Clinic preps $302 million expansion of Florida operation

September 01, 2015 UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

By TIMOTHY MAGAW 

 

Cleveland Clinic announced it will pump $302 million into its growing Florida operation — plans that include major upgrades at its campus in Weston, plus a new clinic and ambulatory surgery center in Coral Springs.

 

The expansion in Weston, which will take place over the next three years, will include the addition of three operating suites and inpatient hospital beds, as well as expansion of its emergency department and imaging and lab facilities.

 

The investments at the Weston campus come on the heels of the construction of a $90 million, 143,000-square-foot cancer and neurology facility that opened in March.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20150901/NEWS/150909980/cleveland-clinic-preps-302-million-expansion-of-florida-operation

 

^financed by shutting down Lakewood Hospital?

Cleveland Clinic to open health care facility in pricey Central London

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2015/10/cleveland_clinic_to_open_health_care_facility_in_pricey_central_london.html

The clinic has a contract with the city until 2020 I believe and has to maintain some sort of medical facility there until then. When they chose fairview over lakewood for the updates you knew the end was near.

 

It's ridiculous that they'd choose one over the other.  West Park and Lakewood combined account for almost 10% of Cuyahoga County's population.  But I guess they're not the right 10%...

Just for the sake of accuracy, I double checked this statistic because I didn't think it sounded correct.  As of the 2010 census, Lakewood and Fairview Park combine for 5.39% of Cuyahoga County's population.

First East Cleveland, then Lakewood, now Euclid. Sounds like we need a health care provider to take their place....

 

Councilman Michael Polensek outraged over Cleveland Clinic proposal to remove rehab beds from Euclid Hospital

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2016/03/councilman_polensek_outraged_over_cleveland_clinic_proposal_to_remove_rehab_beds_from_euclid_hospital.html

First East Cleveland, then Lakewood, now Euclid. Sounds like we need a health care provider to take their place....

 

Councilman Michael Polensek outraged over Cleveland Clinic proposal to remove rehab beds from Euclid Hospital

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2016/03/councilman_polensek_outraged_over_cleveland_clinic_proposal_to_remove_rehab_beds_from_euclid_hospital.html

 

They'll remove the beds, then use the fact there's "not enough of them" to justify closing.

Times they are achangin

 

Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove announces plans to step down

By Kris Wernowsky, cleveland.com

May 01, 2017 at 8:32 AM, updated May 01, 2017 at 10:15 AM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland Clinic's Toby Cosgrove announced that he would step down as president and CEO later this year, but he will remain with the Clinic in an advisory role.

 

The announcement was made at a meeting Monday morning, according to a press released issued shortly after by the Cleveland Clinic.

 

Here is the full statement:

 

After nearly 13 years as president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic - which has grown into an $8 billion health system with multiple locations in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Canada, Abu Dhabi, and, in 2020, London - Toby Cosgrove, M.D., announced at a staff meeting today that he has decided to begin a succession process to transition out of the top executive role later this year. The Governance Committee has asked Dr. Cosgrove to continue on in an advisory role.

 

Over Dr. Cosgrove's tenure, Cleveland Clinic's expansion locally, nationally, and internationally has positioned the institution for a strong future as its revenues have grown from $3.7 billion in 2004 to $8.5 billion in 2016. It has become Ohio's largest employer with over 50,000 caregivers and a global leader in clinical outcomes, patient experience, innovation and wellness, ranking No. 2 in the nation last year by U.S. News & World Report.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/05/cleveland_clinic_ceo_toby_cosg_1.html

^ No more white paint... please.  Maybe the Clinic "aesthetic" will change for the better.

 

Probably much ado about nothing. The new vendor will probably hire as many as those laid off.

 

Sodexo will lay off more than 380 workers at the Cleveland Clinic

May 09, 2017

By SCOTT SUTTELL 

 

Food services contractors Sodexo plans to lay off more than 380 people who work at the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic.

 

In a notice filed with the state of Ohio and Cuyahoga County, Gaithersburg, Md.-based Sodexo said it received notice from the Clinic on April 22 that "effective June 30, 2017, the client will no longer use Sodexo to perform Food and Nutrition services."

 

The layoffs of 383 people are "expected to be permanent," and "Sodexo's operation at this account will be closed," according to the notice, which was filed on Monday, May 8.

 

The notice breaks down the 383 layoffs by category, the largest of which is "Food Service Worker," with 215 people set to be laid off.

 

MORE:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20170509/NEWS/170509804/sodexo-will-lay-off-more-than-380-workers-at-the-cleveland-clinic

Politico has a piece up this morning on the relationship btwn the Cleveland Clinic & surrounding neighborhoods. https://t.co/S5HOk6Yxqw

Just read it. I thought fair, but I'm in Summit county. It is disturbing that the whole east side of Cleveland in their graph has that high of diabetes and other diseases.

  I would think there would be more community gardens since the land is pretty cheap and many houses have been torn down. They could have their own farmers markets.

audidave[/member] - as someone who once managed the side yard program for a CDC that served a distressed community/food desert; without an active community that also has the business know how, community gardens can actually turn out to be a mess (not having the support to sustain and maintain the garden or the knowledge to get the produce to market). Not saying that community gardens couldn't contribute to improving healthy food access, but it needs to be a broad, well supported community effort and it isn't the only solution.

 

There are already a TON of community gardens/urban farms on the east side, and although that is an improvement, it isn't the only factor or solution to the problem. It is my opinion that access to healthcare, classes that teach residents how to cook with produce from the gardens/how to cook quick/healthier meals, better employment opportunities, and access to full service grocery stores could do much more in improving the situation. What's the benefit of a community garden when the residents in the area don't have the time to cook healthy meals because it is far cheaper and easier to go to a fast food restaurant, especially for a family where parents work odd hours at multiple part time jobs that do not pay above minimum wage.

A thriving Hough and Fairfax doesn't really benefit Cleveland Clinic. Land around their campus is cheap allowing them to expand outward instead of up. A spokesman stated as much when comparing their campus to the Mayo Clinic and John's Hopkins. Disappointing if you hoped they would reverse their suburban style development.

 

And more expansion in Cleveland is inevitable. In the hospital’s master planning room, tucked behind an unmarked door just steps from the main lobby, the footprints of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are laid over maps of the Clinic, which dwarfs them. Those maps are a reminder, said a Clinic spokesman, that “our national rivals, Mayo Clinic [and Hopkins] … they don’t own the buildings around them, they have no place to grow but up.” In contrast, “we own much of the neighborhood around us and can really grow.”

 

A thriving Hough and Fairfax doesn't really benefit Cleveland Clinic. Land around their campus is cheap allowing them to expand outward instead of up. A spokesman stated as much when comparing their campus to the Mayo Clinic and John's Hopkins. Disappointing if you hoped they would reverse their suburban style development.

 

And more expansion in Cleveland is inevitable. In the hospital’s master planning room, tucked behind an unmarked door just steps from the main lobby, the footprints of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are laid over maps of the Clinic, which dwarfs them. Those maps are a reminder, said a Clinic spokesman, that “our national rivals, Mayo Clinic [and Hopkins] … they don’t own the buildings around them, they have no place to grow but up.” In contrast, “we own much of the neighborhood around us and can really grow.”

 

 

But a thriving CC does benefit them.  Who is probably the biggest employer in those neighborhoods?

 

Put it in the other direction, what has CC done for them?  It stayed.  It has expanded there.  It didn't have to.  It could have put the Taussig Center in Twinsburg, the cardiac division in Strongsville, the surgical unit in Avon Lake.  It could have said "visitors don't like coming to this area" and put a lot more beds at Hillcrest.

 

Would these neighborhoods, and the city as a whole, be better or worse off if this had happened?

I don't mean to pick on Cleveland Clinic. Many hospital campuses that grew up in the post-war era were built to isolate themselves from the surrounding, decaying neighborhoods... I'm sure you've traveled past MetroHealth Medical Center on West 25th Street. Why is it that there are no restaurants or spinoff retail lining the westside of West 25th Street yet here is this major Hospital facility on the east side of West 25th Street? Take special note at how MetroHealth Medical Center relates to West 25th Street. Point is, it doesn't. There are few if any penetrable barriers in this faceless hard shell of a facade that acts more like a bunker. Stopping or reversing the neighborhood's decay means trading the hard shell for a porous one. If you want to improve the neighborhood, interact with it. Don't hide from it.

 

Cleveland Clinic is much the same way although it's impenetrable facade is prettier in terms of its architectural shell. But it is none the less impenetrable except for a few access points that are strategically placed so that they can be controlled. Most of them are off parking facilities. The Cleveland Clinic doesn't relate to its surroundings either. There are very few spin-off benefits in terms of restaurants or retail that person's from the Cleveland Clinic can go outside and be a part of. Thus they're also very few restaurants or retail that people from the neighborhoods can work at.

 

The spin-off retail is all inside the Cleveland Clinic and is extremely small considering how large of a customer base is available to support it. Certainly the Cleveland Clinic is a benefit to the neighborhoods but it's design doesn't represent the highest and best use. Instead it represents an opportunity cost in terms of failing to maximize the public benefits of this institution. Ironically the very thing that people criticize about going to the clinic...the poor condition of the neighborhoods... is a direct result of how the Cleveland Clinic campus is designed in terms of its hard outer shell. Replace it with a porous shell with lots of supportive uses and the land use-related benefits to the neighborhood will be maximized.

Between Uptown, all the development planned along East 105th, and the Clinic development mentioned on here recently along Cedar I think this is moving in the right direction, though still a long way off.  Even the Clinic isn't endlessly hungry for more land, they have enough within their current bounds for decades of expansion.

I was just about to edit my post by saying that retail and restaurants are only part of the potential spin-off benefits of the Cleveland Clinic. Housing has to be a bigger focus of attention for some of its many employees as well as for patients who are facing months or even years of continuing medical care. The clinic spends a lot of money on parking garages when it could be spending that on housing. Walking to work has great health benefits not only for employees but also for the neighborhood.

 

Similarly, we as a country and as individuals spend a lot of money on ambulatory services when offering patients the choice of living close to the hospital could have significant health-care benefits, not only in terms of cost but also in terms of proximal access to care. I say that from personal experience because my elderly mother practically lives at Cleveland Clinic even though she maintains an apartment many many miles away.

:clap: :clap:

 

Cleveland Clinic named No. 2 hospital by U.S. News for the second consecutive year

 

Updated on August 8, 2017 at 12:02 AM Posted on August 8, 2017 at 12:01 AM

By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer [email protected]

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Clinic for the second consecutive year scored the second place spot on the U.S. News & World Report, buoyed in part by its top rankings in urology and cardiology.

 

For the 23rd straight year, U.S. News ranked the Clinic the No. 1 hospital for cardiology and heart surgery. Similarly, its urology program has ranked as No. 1 or No. 2 in the U.S. News report for the past 18 years.

 

Only the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota beat out the Clinic for the top ranking, a position it has held for the past two years. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore came in at No. 3. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston took the No. 4 spot, and UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco came in No. 5.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2017/08/cleveland_clinic_named_no_2_ho.html#incart_2box