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Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University are ex- panding their health education collaboration to include dental and nursing students on the campus already planned for the institutions' medical students. The 485,000-square-foot quadrangle building will stand on the same 11-acre parcel originally designated for the medical education building on East 93rd Street between Euclid and Chester Avenues. Construction of the new Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital is underway. Designed as a "hospital of the future," the new facility is being built onto the north side of the existing Richard E. Jacobs Health Center. The five-story, 221,500-square-foot addition is estimated at $143 mil - lion and is scheduled to open in 2016. Planned as a small, high-tech community hospital for lower acuity inpatient care, the new hospital will have 126 private rooms to take care of patients who are more likely to be discharged within just a few days, rather than a week or longer. Mercy Medical Center recently kicked off its Age 1 Dental campaign with free dental screenings at the JRC Learning Center in northeast Canton. The Age 1 Dental initiative is aimed at increasing awareness of the importance of dental care to children's overall wellness and combating a growing trend of tooth decay in elementary school students. The campaign is funded through grants from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the American Dental Association, Delta Dental of Ohio and the HealthPath Foundation of Ohio. The MetroHealth System now offers ABUS (Automated Breast Ultrasound System) for breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts. Approved by the FDA last year, ABUS will be offered in addition to mammography, to improve detection of small cancers that cannot be seen on a mammogram alone. Forty percent of all women, and more than half of all women in their 50s, have dense breast tissue. St. Vincent Charity Medical Center's 2014 Internal Medicine residency program graduates all passed the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam. St. Vincent Charity has 52 inter - nal medicine residents as well residents in addiction medicine, dentistry and podiatry. The Internal Medicine Residency program is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Summa Health System's new President/ CEO is Thomas Malone, MD, MBA. He began in this position on January 1, 2015. Malone replaces longtime Summa CEO Tom Strauss who retired at year's end. Malone, who previously served as COO for Summa's Care Delivery System, joined Summa in the fall of 2013 from Michigan's Harper University and Hutzel Women's Hospital, where he was CEO of the 560-bed academic medical center affiliated with Wayne State University. In addition, Malone was Chief Medical Officer at the Detroit Medical Center where he led the implementation of an EMR system for all seven hospitals and was responsible for resident medical education, managed care contracting and employed physician practices. Union Hospital has been recognized with an "A" grade for patient safety by the Leapfrog Group, an independent industry watchdog that grades the nation's hospital's patient safety records. A grade of A, B, C, D or F is assigned to U.S. hospitals based on preventable medical errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Union Hospital also achieved its fourth consecutive Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades. This recognition ranks UH among the nation's top ten percent of all hospitals for patient safety. University Hospitals broke ground on a $28 million state- of-the-art outpatient health center and freestanding emer - gency department in Broadview Heights on November 5 with a projected completion date in fall of 2016. The proposed 51,000-square-foot ambulatory health center and freestand- ing emergency department will sit on more than six acres of land highly visible from I-77 and easily accessed from the Route 82 interchange. It will complement the services at UH Parma Medical Center. UH Parma Medical Center's Primary Stroke Center is now part of the University Hospitals Neurological Institute, Northeast Ohio's first Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. Earlier this year, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association recognized UH Parma Medical Center with its Get with the Guidelines – Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award salutes UH Parma Medical Center for its rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke, public education about risk factors, and frequent community stroke screenings and forums. Western Reserve Hospital received the Gold Plus Heart Failure award and Silver Plus Stroke award from the American Heart Association under the "Get With The Guidelines" quality improve - ment initiative. These awards honor hospitals that have met or exceeded the AHA's specific guidelines for providing outstanding care in different categories. This the fourth consecutive year Western Reserve has received the Heart Failure award. Special thanks to the hospital Public Relations administrators who submitted information for this column. To include your hospital's news, add us to your press release list or e-mail news items to jraabe@mdnews.com. The editorial deadline for the March-April issue is February 1st. ■ 2 0 1 5 JA N UA RY/ F E B R UA RY ■ M D N E W S . CO M ■ MD NEWS Cleveland/Akron/Canton | 2 9

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