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Hillcrest recently completed a $163 million expansion project which included a new NICU. The new NICU features an open design with each baby in his or her own private room. It is staffed around the clock with board-certified neonatologists and a team of specially trained neonatal nurse practitioners. Lake Health recently opened a new full service, 24-hour emergency department (ED) in Madi- son. Located at 6270 North Ridge Road on Lake Health’s Madison campus, the freestand- ing 10,000-square-foot ED features 10 private general treatment rooms; two private trauma rooms; one private behavioral health observa- tion room; a decontamination room; thru care for faster response to non-life-threatening emergencies; and radiology, including x-ray and CT. There is also a lab and a heliport on site. Physicians board certified in emergency medicine staff the new ED 24/7/365. Marymount Hospital held a “Topping Out” ceremony at its $45 million expansion site. Totaling 74,000 square feet of construction, the expansion includes eight new operating suites, two endoscopy rooms, a minor procedure room and two private pre-operative rooms. It also includes post-operative patient areas, a recovery area with 10 beds, a sterile processing department and centralized nursing stations. The three-story addition will dramatically change the façade of Marymount Hospital, with the new main entrance featuring a covered canopy leading to a spacious two-story lobby with an atrium. Mercy Medical Center recently received reaccreditation as a Heart Failure Institute by the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium. Mercy was the first hospital in Ohio and the second in the nation to be named an accredited Heart Failure Institute by the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium in 2009. The Colloquium offers an organized and systematic approach to heart failure that encompasses the entire continuum of care. The accreditation of Mercy’s Heart Fail- ure Center (HFC) indicates that the hospital is proficient in managing this disease, plac- ing emphasis on both quantity and quality of life across the entire continuum of care. The MetroHealth System is one of two health systems in the nation recognized this year by the Association of Medical Direc- tors of Information Systems (AMDIS). The AMDIS awards honor the individuals and/ or organizations which have successfully MDNEWS.COM JULY-AUGUST 2011 MD NEWS Cleveland-Akron-Canton | 63 applied information systems and computer technology into the practice of medicine. MetroHealth will be honored at AMDIS’s 20th annual Physician Computer Connection Symposium in July and in Modern Health- care / Modern Physician magazines. AMDIS is a non profit organization representing over 1,800 physician leaders who have a high level of interest in and are respon- sible for information technology in their organization(s). Parma Community General Hospi- tal celebrated its 50th anniversary at a black-tie gala in June. When the hospital opened in 1961, it had 200 beds and large maternity, operating, radiology and physical rehabilitation units. Since then, it has grown extensively, adding floors and a new ICU and Coronary Care Unit in the 1970s, along with several medical office buildings in the 1980s and 1990s. In the past decade, Parma Hospital has added outpatient oncology care, opened a new residential hospice, enlarged its ED and built a new ICU. It also established the Tri-C Nursing Program at Parma Hospital in partnership with Cuyahoga Community College. Robinson Memorial Hospital recently