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AT AREA HOSPITALS WHAT'S NEW Akron Children's Hospital will break ground in Februar y on a 230,000-square-foot addition to its seven-stor y Considine Professional Building, 215 W. Bower y St., across from the main hospital building. The addition will bring together all of Akron Children's outpatient clinics and programs in downtown Akron and continue the campus transformation that began when the hospital broke ground on the Kay Jewelers Pavilion in 2012. That project included a new emergency depar tment, neonatal intensive care unit and the GOJO Outpatient Surger y Center. Cleveland Clinic has been awarded nearly $5 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop a first-in-humans clinical trial to assess deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a therapy for stroke recover y patients. Previous research at Cleveland Clinic has shown that DBS can promote the brain's plasticity and ability to form new neural connections during recover y from stroke. This research expands on that work and for the first time translates it to humans. The NIH grant is par t of the Brain Initiative: Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BR AIN). Cleveland Clinic Akron General has a new president — Brian Har te, MD. Dr. Har te has been with Cleveland Clinic since 2004, ser ving in numerous leadership roles. For the past three years, he ser ved as president of Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital, a 500-bed flagship hospital in the Cleveland Clinic health system. Dr. Har te is a practicing hospitalist and the former chairman of the Depar tment of Hospital Medicine and the Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reser ve University. He also currently ser ves as the President of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Lake Health has begun delivering prescriptions to TriPoint Medical Center and West Medical Center inpatients prior to their discharge. The Lake Health Retail Pharmacies, the first retail drug stores owned by Lake Health, offer prescription ser vices including bedside deliver y; private consultations with pharmacists; and competitively priced medical supplies, toiletries, baby care items and over-the-counter medications. The goal is to improve medication adherence while enhancing the overall patient experience. Mercy Medical Center is a recipient of the 2017 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant award in the amount of $920,435.76 from the Crime Victims Section of the Office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. This amount is in addition to Mercy's 2016 VOCA grant of $413,392. These funds will allow for Mercy Medical Center's HAVEN (Healing After Violent Encounters Network) Program to expand from an on-call response to an in-house depar tment to better ser ve victims of assault visiting Mercy Emergency Depar tment. The MetroHealth System has received a $2.26 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research. The grant designates MetroHealth as one of 14 Spinal Cord Injur y Model Systems nationwide. Over a 5 year period, the grant will allow MetroHealth to collect data on the recover y of people with spinal cord injuries and create a database for future research and care; assess recover y patterns in the arms and hands of people with spinal cord injuries to develop guidelines for treatment to restore upper extremity function; redesign a spine board used to transpor t patients from the scene of their injur y to the hospital; and par ticipate in at least one collaborative project with the 13 other grant recipients. Southwest General's Or thopedic Joint Center (SWG OJC) has been designated as a Center of Excellence (COE) by Optum, the health ser vices division of UnitedHealth Group. The designation was repor tedly based on SWG OJC's quality of care, excellent 2 8❱❱❱❱❱ H O S P I TA L R O U N D S