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the campus of Aultman Woodlawn. Located in Jackson Township, the Aultman Women’s Board Compassionate Care Center will provide end-of-life care in a comfortable, peaceful environment with many ameni- ties of home and much more. The new, $5.91-million, 20,000-square-foot 12-bed facility offers private rooms, each featuring an eating area and a sleeper sofa and large enough to accommodate several visitors at one time. Aultman’s palliative care and grief services will expand in this new facility. Cleveland Clinic has been selected as a site for the Parkinson’s Progression Mark- ers Initiative (PPMI), a landmark five-year research study sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation that aims to identify biomarkers of the disease. Reliable and consistent biomarkers would allow scientists to predict, objectively diagnose and monitor diseases, as well as definitively determine which medications work and which will not. There is currently no known biomarker for the progression of Parkinson’s. PPMI is an observational study as opposed to an interventional trial. No experimental drugs will be measured or used in this trial. Since 2006, Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital’s Vascular Anomalies Program has been serving children and adults through a dedicated multidisciplinary team for the treatment and care of vascular anomalies. Reportedly, the first of its kind in the region, the center’s unique approach uses various interventional techniques and specialists from several departments, including derma- tology, diagnostic and interventional radiol- ogy, otolaryngology, pediatric cardiology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, genetics, pathology, hematology, ophthalmology and orthopedics. This multi-disciplinary approach allows all the involved expert physicians to see patients in the same loca- tion during a single visit and creates an all inclusive comprehensive care of vascular anomalies. Dunlap Community Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Ap- proval for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in hospitals. Dunlap voluntarily underwent a rigorous unannounced on-site survey on January 15 by The Joint Commis- sion, which is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Dunlap was also recently reviewed and accredited in computed to- mography (CT) by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Fairview Hospital was one of eight hos- pitals nationwide, and the only hospital in Ohio, to earn the Gold Medal of Honor from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its success in increasing organ donation rates. The hospital received the Gold Medal, the highest honor, for reaching or exceeding all three goals of the Community of Practice: improving donation rates to 75 percent or higher, increasing the number of organs donated per individual donor to 3.75 or higher and implement- ing a Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) program resulting in at least 10 percent of donations coming from DCD donors. At Hillcrest Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) received a level III designa- tion from the State of Ohio’s Department of Health, a rating reserved only for NICU facilities that meet the strictest criteria. 62 | Cleveland-Akron-Canton MD NEWS MDNEWS.COM JULY-AUGUST 2011