MDNews - Cleveland-Akron-Canton

received coronary bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary interventions based on data obtained from 2009 and 2010 Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR), Medicare cost reports, and CMS Hospital Compare. Cleveland Clinic has acquired North Coast Cancer Care (NCCC) of Sandusky, Ohio. A full-service cancer treatment center with 70 employees, NCCC is now a depart- ment within the Taussig Cancer Institute. NCCC has long served patients in Ashland, Crawford, Erie, Huron, Lorain, Ottawa, Sandusky and Seneca counties from three locations in Sandusky, Clyde and at Fisher- Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio. Each location will continue to provide outpatient cancer services. Dunlap Community Hospital is expected to become a subsidiary of Aultman Health Foundation in early 2012. A letter of intent was signed in November by officials of the Orrville Hospital Foundation and Aultman. Under the arrangement, Dunlap will con- tinue to operate as a critical access hospi- tal, and the current management team will remain in place. The intent is to preserve existing services and expand patients' access to additional services, including specialty care and advanced services. Hillcrest Hospital is 1 of only 94 hospitals in the nation to earn the American College of Cardiology Foundation's NCDR AC- TION Registry–GWTG Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2011. To receive the award Hillcrest consistently followed the treatment guidelines in ACTION Registry– GWTG for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk STEMI and NSTEMI patients, for 12 months and met a performance standard of 85 percent for specific performance measures. Lake Health has been named to Becker's Hospital Review's list of "70 Hospitals with Great Cardiology Programs." The list includes hospitals that offer outstanding heart care, based on clinical accolades, quality care and contributions to the field of cardiology. The hospitals on the list have been recognized for excellence in this specialty by several health care rating resources, including HealthGrades, Thom- son Reuters, American Heart Association, American Stroke Association and American Nurses Credentialing Center. Mercy Medical Center has been named one of the nation's 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Thomson Reuters for the fifth time. The study examined the performance of more than 1,000 hospitals by analyzing outcomes for patients with heart failure and heart attacks and for those who received coronary bypass surgery and per- cutaneous coronary interventions such as angioplasties. According to Reuters, "The hospitals in this study have provided mea- surably better care and are more efficient than their peers." MetroHealth's Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. MetroHealth was also named to the association's Stroke Honor Roll for administering tPA to at least 50% of MetroHealth's eligible ischemic stroke patients within an hour of arriving at the hospital. This has been shown to significantly reverse the effects of stroke and reduce permanent disability. Parma Community General Hospital has been designated an Aetna Institute of Quality Cardiac Care Facility for compre- hensive heart and vascular treatment. Facilities are selected for consistently de- livering evidence-based, safe care. Parma Hospital's cardiac care includes its Heart & Vascular Center and Cardiac Catheteriza- tion Center, and a cardiovascular intensive care unit with private rooms and state-of- the-art telemetry for cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery patients and interven- tional cardiology patients. Robinson Memorial Hospital is now home to a highly advanced 256-slice CT scanner that renders three-dimensional (3D) im- ages of the body. The SOMATOM Defini- tion Flash CT by Siemens can capture the body's skeleton, organs and blood vessels in remarkable detail. It can perform a scan of the heart with less than one millisievert (mSv) of radiation and can capture a com- plete 3D image of the entire chest region in just 0.6 seconds. A whole-body scan on a person six feet, six inches tall takes just 4.7 seconds. St. John Medical Center in Westlake is the newest site of the UH Neurological Institute. Services offered include general neurologic care; neurosurgery and neuro- logic spine surgery; and comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and other movement disorders, balance disor- ders, stroke and cerebrovascular disor- ders, headache, back pain, gait disorders, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and other dementias, dizziness/vertigo, Cervical Dystonia and Bell's Palsy. St. Vincent Charity Medical Center recently opened a new Diagnostic Imaging Center at 4400 Rockside Road in Independence. Conveniently located near I-77 in the same building as Independence Urgent Care, this $2.6 million, 6,700-square-foot center includes open-bore MRI, 16-slice CT, digital X-ray and nuclear echocardiology. All tech- nology is from Siemens. Hours are 7:30 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday. Southwest General's Heart & Vascular Insti- tute Specialty Outpatient Center has a new Lung Nodule Center. The Center focuses on identifying lung nodules as early in the disease process as possible for more posi- tive clinical outcomes and improved quality of life. Patients can expect a same-day appointment with a board-certified car- diothoracic surgeon as well as coordinated multidisciplinary care with other physician specialists and members of the health care team. A physician referral is not required. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2012 MDNEWS.COM MD NEWS Cleveland-Akron-Canton | 51

• Cover