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Akron Children's Hospital has been re-designated as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program ® . The Magnet Recognition Program recog- nizes healthcare organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. Akron Children's is one of only 34 pediatric Magnet hospitals na- tionwide and one of 28 Magnet hospitals in Ohio. The 4 46 Magnet designated organizations represent less than 7 percent of all U.S. healthcare organizations. Aultman Hospital was recently named one of the nation's 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Truven Health Analy tics TM , an IBM company. Truven Health researchers analyzed 2014 and 2015 Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data, 2015 Medicare cost repor ts, and second-quar ter 2016 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser vices (CMS) Hospital Compare data. Key per formance areas measured included risk-adjusted mor tality, risk-adjusted complications, core measures (a group of measures that assess process of care), percentage of coronar y bypass pa - tients with internal mammar y ar ter y use, 30-day mor tality rates, 30-day readmission rates, severity-adjusted average length of stay, and wage- and severity-adjusted average cost. Cleveland Clinic has been awarded nearly $5 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop a first-in-humans clini - cal trial to assess deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a therapy for stroke recover y patients. The grant will help develop a deep brain stimulation system to improve recover y of a patient's motor function and vocational re-entr y. Researchers at the Clinic have previously 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. Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital is now open. The five-story, 212,000-square-foot facility, estimated at more than $161 million, was built onto the north side of the existing Richard E. Jacobs Health Center located off Nagel Road in Avon, Ohio. It features 126 private hospital rooms, in addition to an intensive care unit (ICU), new operat - ing rooms, a cardiac catheterization lab, pharmacy and lab. The health center's existing emergency and radiology departments were also expanded. Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital will offer care in more than a dozen specialties, including cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterol - ogy, general surgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology, gynecology, hospital medicine, vascular medicine and vascular surgery. Cleveland Clinic Akron General opened an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in Januar y. The four-bed unit allows epilepsy specialists from Akron General and Cleveland Clinic to diagnose a seizure problem accurately and design the best possible treatment plan. An outpa - tient epilepsy clinic will also provide convenient access to patients for the evaluation, medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy. Lake Health House Calls program offers personalized in-home primar y care and palliative care to patients managing a chronic disease or recovering from a recent illness or hospitalization. On call 24-hours a day, nurse practitioners collaborate with each patient's primar y care provider and an interdisciplinar y team of physical therapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers and case managers to provide effective and seamless care in the patients' homes until their health improves and they can comfor tably resume regular doctor's office visits. AT AREA HOSPITALS WHAT'S NEW 2 8H O S P I TA L R O U N D S