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Akron Children's Hospital opened a new specialty care office in December at the Aultman North campus, located at 6100 Whipple Avenue NW, in North Canton. Services include pediatric cardiology, pediatric orthopedics, and pediatric ophthalmology and optometry. Formerly, Akron Children's cardiologists were seeing patients at Aultman Hospital, and Akron Children's orthopedic surgeons were seeing patients at offices on Dressler Road. Vision care from Akron Children's physicians was not available in Stark County in the past. Now, all of these services can be more easily accessed at one location. Akron General Health System is now fully part of Cleveland Clinic. As part of the agreement, the entire Akron General Health System — including Akron General Medical Center, Lodi Community Hospital, the Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Institute, three health and wellness centers, the Justin T. Rogers Hospice Care Center, Partners Physician Group, and Visiting Nurse Service and Affiliates — have joined Cleveland Clinic. Upcoming initiatives include integration planning, as well as building a new emergency department to open in 2017; opening a new outpatient facility in Portage County and another in Lodi in 2016; and replacing Akron General's electronic medical record system with Epic. Aultman Hospital, for the fourth time, has been named one of the nation's 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics. Truven analyzed 2013 and 2014 Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data, 2014 Medicare cost reports, and 2015 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare data. Performance was measured in key areas: risk-adjusted mortality, risk-adjusted complications, core measures which assess process of care, percent - age of coronary bypass patients with internal mammary artery use, 30-day mortality rates, 30-day readmission rates, severity-adjusted average length of stay, and wage- and severity-adjusted average cost. Cleveland Clinic is collaborating with Cleveland HeartLab and Procter & Gamble (P&G) to develop and commercialize a diagnostic and management solution for a heart disease biomarker recently discovered by researchers in Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research and Heart & Vascular Institutes.©As part of the collaboration, Cleveland HeartLab will develop a diagnostic test to measure blood levels of Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), a substance produced by gut bac - teria and that is linked to heart disease. Meanwhile, Cleveland Clinic researchers will work with Cincinnati-based P&G to develop an over- the-counter product that can help people manage their TMAO levels. Lake Health is reportedly the first in the region and among the first in the U.S. to use a new implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) spe - cifically designed to function safely in patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Evera MRI SureScan ICD was implanted in a patient at Lake Health on Sept. 22. Manufactured by Medtronic, the Evera is the first FDA-approved ICD designed to allow for MRI scans on any body part, while maintaining the same longevity, proven shock reduction and physical size and shape of previous versions of the ICD. Researchers at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center recently published the results of two studies in The Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine. They addressed proper medical gown and glove removal after patient interaction to significantly reduce contamination risks for healthcare workers and emergency responders. They reported a correlation between the use of a new disinfectant for hospital rooms and an 3 2H O S P I TA L R O U N D S AT AREA HOSPITALS WHAT'S NEW