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Fireworks Injure 4,000 Kids Each Year
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (43 reads)
In 2006, more than 2000 children ages 14 and under were treated in U.S. emergency rooms for injuries involving fireworks during the fireworks season, which runs from the middle of June until the middle of July. Children ages 10 to 14 have the highest rate of injury from fireworks.
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University Hospitals Launches Stroke System Initiative
Monday, June 30, 2008 (38 reads)
Thomas Zenty endorsed the launch of the UH Stroke System Initiative on June 25, 2008. The initiative will be coordinated by Cathy Sila MD, Director of the UHCMC Neurological Institute Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center, and includes representatives from all of the fully owned and partner UH hospitals.
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University Hospitals Selects Gilbane as Construction Management Company; Gilbane to Oversee Construction of all Vision 2010 Projects
Monday, May 21, 2007 (554 reads)
CLEVELAND – University Hospitals has taken a major step forward to achieving its Vision 2010 five-year strategic plan by announcing the selection of Gilbane Building Company to oversee all Vision 2010 construction projects. These building projects, which amount to $650 million in project costs, include a new 120-bed cancer hospital on the University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) campus, the 600-bed UH Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood and renovation of UHCMC’s Center for Emergency Medicine and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.
“Our Vision 2010 strategic plan represents a milestone for University Hospitals and the patients and communities we serve and we are pleased to announce that Gilbane will help us to accomplish these major construction projects,” says Thomas F. Zenty III, CEO of University Hospitals. “Gilbane has an extraordinary reputation both nationally and in the Cleveland market. We look forward to this partnership which promises to change the face of healthcare in Northeast Ohio and beyond.”
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Ahuja Family Donates $30 Million to University Hospitals
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 (1482 reads)
CLEVELAND (Dec. 12, 2006) – University Hospitals today celebrated the largest single donation in its 140-year history – a $30 million gift from Cleveland entrepreneur Monte Ahuja, his wife, Usha, and their family. UH President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas F. Zenty III made the historic announcement to more than 700 community leaders, UH physicians, leaders, donors and Board members at UH’s special holiday celebration at Severance Hall.
The unprecedented gift is in support of Vision 2010, UH’s $1.2 billion, five-year strategic plan. In recognition of the Ahuja family’s extraordinary generosity, UH will name the future 200-bed East Side hospital in Beachwood “The Ahuja Medical Center.
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Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation Receives Prestigious University Hospitals’ Samuel Mather Award for Philanthropy
Thursday, October 05, 2006 (452 reads)
CLEVELAND: University Hospitals is awarding its highest philanthropic honor to a group dedicated for 120 years to the health and well-being of Cleveland's children. The Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation is this year’s winner of the esteemed Samuel Mather Award from University Hospitals (UH). The award, named for one of UH’s earliest supporters, celebrates the exceptional generosity and civic vision of benefactors who have had a lasting and profound impact on University Hospitals.
The Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation and its predecessor organization have made it their mission to garner financial, political, corporate and community support for the hospital. Most recently, the Foundation awarded Rainbow $20.6 million, the largest single gift in Rainbow’s history, in support of University Hospitals’ Vision 2010 strategic plan.
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University Hospitals to Implement Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager to Enhance Patient Safety and Improve Quality of Care
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (649 reads)
Boca Raton, FL, & Cleveland, OH, September 20, 2006 - Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®,
today announced that University Hospitals (UH), Cleveland, OH, has
contracted for Sunrise Clinical Manager and its fully integrated
modules, including Sunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise
Emergency Care, Sunrise Critical Care, Sunrise Pharmacy,and
Knowledge-Based Charting.
Consistently ranked among America's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report,
UH is a leading healthcare delivery system in Northeast Ohio with 150
locations throughout the region. An interdisciplinary team of UH
physicians, nurses and senior management selected Eclipsys after an
extensive analysis of other clinical information solutions.
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University Hospitals Enables Historic Expansion at Its Cleveland Campus by Purchasing Former OfficeMax Headquarters
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (404 reads)
CLEVELAND - University Hospitals today took the first major
step in its historic clinical expansion of its Case Medical Center
campus in Cleveland by signing a letter of intent to purchase the
former OfficeMax headquarters in Shakers Heights.
The 217,000-square-foot building will be used to consolidate
University Hospitals' non-clinical offices from throughout Northeast
Ohio and to make room on its Cleveland campus for a freestanding Cancer
Hospital, an expanded Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department and new
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital.
UH's overall strategy will generate hundreds of jobs for Cleveland,
Shaker Heights and other Northeast Ohio communities.
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STERIS Corporation doubles grant funding to University Hospitals for Infection Prevention Research
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 (125 reads)
CLEVELAND -- STERIS Corporation today announced its third grant to University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) to support research in the areas of healthcare-associated and emerging infections and the development of innovative strategies and technologies for preventing infection and contamination.
The new grant of $600,000 to UHC’s Division of Infectious Diseases will help sustain research over the next three years and will build upon a relationship that began with initial funding in 1999 and renewed funding in 2002.
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Ellis Island Medal of Honor Awarded to Joseph Calabrese, MD
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 (147 reads)
Joseph R. Calabrese, MD, a psychiatrist with University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) and professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been selected as a recipient of the 2006 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
On the weekend of May 12, Dr. Calabrese will celebrate the honor with other medalists at a reception in New York City. He joins the prestigious ranks of past honorees such as Rosa Parks, Walter Kronkite, Muhammad Ali and Colin Powell.
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University Hospitals Plans Major Health Center in Chagrin Highlands
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 (186 reads)
CLEVELAND -- University Hospitals today unveiled another key component of its Vision 2010 strategy -- the building of a state-of-the-art suburban Center for Health that includes a 200-bed hospital, an ambulatory surgery center, physician offices and community outreach and education capabilities.
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Chambers of Commerce Group Exclusively Endorses University CompCare for Workers' Compensation Managed Care
Monday, May 01, 2006 (111 reads)
CLEVELAND -- The Northern Ohio Area Chambers of Commerce (NOACC) today announced the exclusive endorsement of University CompCare as its preferred provider of workers’ compensation managed care services.
University CompCare, an affiliate of Cleveland-based University Hospitals Health System, is the only managed care organization (MCO) ever endorsed by NOACC since the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) instituted its managed care program in 1997. NOACC, a regional partnership consisting of more than 120 community-based chambers of commerce in Northern Ohio, exists to help local chambers of commerce deliver competitive and cost-saving benefits and services for their member businesses.
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Wellpoint Announces Acquisition of Cleveland-Based Qualchoice Health Plan's Medical Business
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 (160 reads)
CLEVELAND -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) today announced that it has entered into an agreement in principle to acquire the Medicaid plan from QualChoice Health Plan, Inc. (QualChoice), an Ohio-based managed care organization. QualChoice has built a strong reputation for delivering superior customer service while offering an extensive physician and hospital network for its members.
Pending Ohio Department of Insurance approval, QualChoice will also endorse Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield as the insurer of choice for business customers of QualChoice’s commercial insurance plans and individual policies. QualChoice will continue to serve these members through the end of 2006 - at which time QualChoice expects to cease providing insurance coverage.
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Key Grants $1.5 Million to UHHS
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 (172 reads)
CLEVELAND -- KeyCorp Chairman and CEO Henry L. Meyer III today presented a $1.5 million Key Foundation grant to University Hospitals Health System (UHHS). The largest corporate gift ever to UHHS, the grant underwrites a major new diversity initiative and provides funding for construction of a new cancer hospital as part of Vision 2010, the most ambitious strategic plan in UHHS history.
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University Hospital Achieves Exclusive Nursing Magnet Designation
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 (138 reads)
CLEVELAND -- University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) has earned the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) prestigious Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Services. ANCC, the nation’s leading nursing credentialing organization, recognizes only 180 institutions nationwide.
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University Hospitals MedEvac Relocated Helicopter Base to Geauga County
Monday, April 17, 2006 (155 reads)
CLEVELAND -- The University Hospitals MedEvac Helicopter Program will make Geauga County’s Middlefield Airport its new home of operation. The move is expected to reduce response time for patient transports, which occur primarily to the east of Cleveland. A second MedEvac helicopter is already stationed in Lorain County.
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UHHS Introduces Corporate Health Service
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 (135 reads)
CLEVELAND -- University Hospitals Health System (UHHS) has successfully assembled its comprehensive collaboration of corporate health services that offer work-related injury care and treatment and return to work support for Northeast Ohio businesses.
UHHS announces its new service offerings with the launching of its corporate health provider network--a panel of providers dedicated to the treatment of on-the-job injuries.
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University Hospitals Health System Physicians and Ohio KePRO Study E-prescribing
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 (138 reads)
CLEVELAND -- University Primary & Specialty Care Practice (UPCP), the 300-physician community based practice of University Hospitals Health System (UHHS), and Ohio KePRO have received a $993,000 grant from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to study the technical standards and clinical impact of electronic prescribing of medications.
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University Hospitals of Cleveland Establishes Neurological Institute
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 (124 reads)
CLEVELAND -- University Hospitals of Cleveland is ushering in a new era of clinical neurosciences with the establishment of the Neurological Institute of University Hospitals -- Cleveland’s first comprehensive center that brings together experts in the medical and surgical treatment of disorders affecting the nervous system.
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UHHS Commits More Than $1 Billion for Wide-Reaching Vision 2010 Plan
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 (144 reads)
CLEVELAND - The Board of Directors of University Hospitals Health System (UHHS) has unanimously approved core elements of its strategic plan, called Vision 2010. The plan, calling for investments of more than $1 billion over five years, includes significant commitment to the University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) campus, new facilities and considerable expansion of services at several System hospitals, additional suburban ambulatory centers and more than $100 million in technological enhancements, including system-wide electronic health records.
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University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case School of Medicine Launch National Eye Study
Thursday, January 12, 2006 (127 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Researchers at the Vision Research Coordinating Center and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (Case) are leading a nationwide study of the genetics of Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD). The disease afflicts approximately one percent of the general population, including entire families, and can cause blindness. The FECD Genetics Multi-center Study is funded by a grant over the next five years from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
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University Hospital's of Cleveland's Medical ICU Earns Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 (136 reads)
CLEVELAND - The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) of University Hospitals of Cleveland has earned the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. The Beacon Award is given by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) and is designated to recognize the nation’s top hospital critical care units. Of the twelve hospital units awarded in 2005/2006, the MICU at University Hospitals of Cleveland is the only Beacon Award recipient in northern Ohio.
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Rosskamm Family Gift Provides Legacy for University Hospitals of Cleveland CEO
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 (186 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Betty Rosskamm, and her late husband, Martin, are pillars in the Cleveland business community, growing one small fabric shop into the nation’s leading fabric and crafts retailer, Jo-Ann Stores. Their success benefits the community in numerous ways, and today, that includes helping the patients of Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.
With a ceremony held Monday night, the Rosskamms dedicated and established The Martin and Betty Rosskamm Chair for Pediatric Gastroenterology in Honor of Fred C. Rothstein, MD.
Dr. Fred Rothstein, President and CEO of University Hospitals of Cleveland, has been a leader in Cleveland’s healthcare community for nearly 30 years. He is also the Rosskamms’ son-in-law. (He married their daughter, Jackie, in 1973.)
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Bahman Guyuron, MD, FACS, Appointed Chief of Plastic Surgery
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 (268 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Following a national search, Bahman Guyuron, MD, FACS, has been appointed Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland. A renowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Guyuron brings a wealth of experience to the helm of the UHC plastic surgery division.
"Dr. Guyuron is a pioneer in the plastic surgery field who has an established international reputation because of his clinical expertise," says Fred C. Rothstein, MD, President and CEO of University Hospitals of Cleveland. "I look forward to Dr. Guyuron’s leadership in strengthening our academic program and expanding our clinical plastic surgery expertise."
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University Hospitals of Cleveland Honors Richard E. Grant, MD with Unique Endowment
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 (455 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Richard E. Grant, MD has been named Chairholder of the Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD Endowed Chair at University Hospitals of Cleveland, the first endowed chair to honor an African American physician in Ohio and the only endowed position in the nation that promotes and ensures diversity among future medical leaders. An endowed chair -- a permanent staff position named for an individual of stature -- is one of the highest honors a hospital can bestow upon a physician. This Chair honors the esteemed Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD, a clinician and academic administrator. The recently retired Dr. Jackson, former Chief of Staff of University Hospitals of Cleveland, has dedicated much of his career to encouraging minority students to pursue a career in medicine. In 1991, Dr. Jackson created the David Satcher Clerkship, a month-long program for visiting fourth-year minority medical students that introduces them to University Hospitals with hopes of attracting them as residents.
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Jeffrey Ponsky, MD Named Chairman of American Board of Surgery
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 (248 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland has been named Chairman of the American Board of Surgery for 2005-2006.
The American Board of Surgery (ABS) was organized in 1937 and is responsible for conducting examinations of surgeons who wish to obtain or maintain board certification. The ABS also seeks to broaden opportunities for training and graduate education of surgeons.
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Sherri Bishop Named to Head Development at UHHS
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 (153 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Tom Zenty,
president and chief executive officer of University Hospitals Health
System, today announced the appointment of Sherri Bishop to the
position of senior vice president for Institutional Relations and
Development. Bishop comes to UHHS after 13 years at the Cleveland
Clinic, where she most recently was vice chairman of the division of
Institutional Relations and Development.
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Depressed Teens Helped with Combination Drug and Talk Therapy
Tuesday, August 17, 2004 (119 reads)
CLEVELAND -- A short-term
approach, involving both medication and specific cognitive behavioral
'talk' therapy, is highly effective in the treatment of teenage
depression. In a national
study involving more than 400 adolescents (including 33 from the
Cleveland area), researchers concluded that a combination of Prozac and
focused psychotherapy, known as CBT, appears to be the best approach to
both alleviating depression and reducing the level of suicidal thinking
in adolescents.
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Hospitals Here Rank High on U.S. News & World Report List
Friday, July 02, 2004 (128 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Northern Ohioans
are among the nation's most fortunate health care consumers, having
access to some of the best medicine provided anywhere, according to
U.S.News & World Report's latest hospital rankings. The
magazine's rankings of America's Best Hospitals clinical programs were
released today, and included:
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UHC Establishes First Endowed Chair for African American Physician in Cleveland
Friday, April 16, 2004 (134 reads)
CLEVELAND -- Under the
leadership of Wayne Embry, retired General Manager/President of the
Cleveland Cavaliers, local community members raised more than $1
million contributing to the creation of the first endowed chair for an
African American physician in Cleveland.
The Edgar B. Jackson, Jr., MD Endowed Chair will be dedicated on April 19, 2004.
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UHC Researchers Seek Better Birth Controls
Friday, April 09, 2004 (101 reads)
CLEVELAND -- University
Hospitals of Cleveland has joined a nationwide network of medical
research sites to begin six years of research into female contraception
designed to help develop a broader range of more effective birth
control products.
James H. Liu, MD, director of
Obstetrics/Gynecology, announced recently that UHC was awarded a $3.5
million contract to collaborate with the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development for Contraceptive Clinical Trials.
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Surgeons Explore New Treatment for Tourette Syndrome
Thursday, April 01, 2004 (122 reads)
CLEVELAND -- A neurosurgical team at University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC) has, for the first time in North America, applied a new surgical approach to the treatment of Tourette Syndrome,
resulting in the immediate and nearly complete resolution of symptoms
for the patient, who has suffered from this neurologic disorder since
he was a child.
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UHHS Chesterland Health Center to Open in May
Monday, February 16, 2004 (132 reads)
CHESTERLAND, OH -- A
comprehensive array of medical services will be offered here when
University Hospitals Health System opens the UHHS Chesterland Health
Center later this spring.
The new 10,800-square-foot Chesterland Health Center is designed to
offer the highest standards of quality care to the Geauga County
community and residents of eastern Cuyahoga County.
The $2.5 million facility is expected to open by May 1, 2004, at 8055 Mayfield Rd., located west of Harold Drive.
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UHC Researchers Probe Multiple Systems Atrophy
Monday, February 09, 2004 (148 reads)
CLEVELAND -- A $7 million
National Institutes of Health study began recently at University
Hospitals of Cleveland to investigate Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA), a
baffling nervous system disorder that medical experts often misdiagnose
because of its similarities to Parkinson's and other diseases.
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New Varicose Vein Treatment Avoids Surgery
Monday, February 02, 2004 (186 reads)
ORANGE VILLAGE -- People who
suffer from unsightly and painful varicose veins can now undergo a
non-surgical procedure at UHHS Chagrin Highlands Medical Center. The
procedure treats Greater Saphenous Vein (GSV) reflux, the most common
underlying cause of varicose veins.
Approved by the FDA is 2002, the Endo Laser Vein System is a safe,
efficacious, state-of-the-art laser treatment for lower extremity
venous insufficiency, which often leads to varicose veins.
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Pediatrician Arthur Burns, MD, Retiring at Age 83
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 (240 reads)
CLEVELAND -- For more than 50 years, pediatrician Arthur Burns, MD
treated thousands of patients and four generations of Cleveland
families. On Friday, January 30, Dr. Burns will retire from medicine.
At age 83, Dr. Burns is an elder member of the greater Cleveland medical community.
Edgar Jackson, MD, former
University Hospitals Chief of Staff, says, "Dr. Burns has been a model
of excellence in practice and in academia, and a role model for all
physicians - especially minority physicians - including myself."
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Alzheimer's Researchers Begin Unique Study of Tangles
Friday, January 16, 2004 (186 reads)
CLEVELAND -- The University Memory and Aging Center (UMAC) of University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University is one of 30 institutions participating in a $10 million National Institutes of Health study to determine if the medication valproate can reduce the occurrences of problem behaviors and affect the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease. Valproate has been successfully used for about 40 years to treat epilepsy, migraines and bipolar disorder, and may provide new hope for the more than four million Americans suffering with Alzheimer's disease.
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University Hospitals Launches Testing for Cystic Fibrosis Before Birth
Monday, January 12, 2004 (183 reads)
CLEVELAND -- The Center for Human Genetics at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is offering expectant parents and couples who are planning a pregnancy a specific screening test for cystic fibrosis (CF) to determine if they carry a genetic mutation and whether their baby is likely to have this life-threatening condition. More than a year ago, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) recommended that physicians make CF screening available to couples seeking preconception or prenatal care, but only a fraction of couples eligible for testing are actually having it done.
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