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Mercy Medical Center Hear t Center received full hear t failure reaccreditation status from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC). Mercy has demonstrated its exper tise and commit - ment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding an array of stringent criteria and undergoing a comprehensive onsite review by a team of SCPC's accreditation review specialists. Hospitals that receive SCPC's HF Accreditation status employ an evidence- based, protocol-driven and systematic approach to patient man - agement. This allows clinicians to reduce time to treatment and to better risk stratif y patients while also reducing length-of-stay. The MetroHealth System has received a $560,000 grant from The Ohio Depar tment of Health's Bureau of Maternal, Child and Family Health. The grant, par t of the federal Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, will help MetroHealth grow the Nurse-Family Par tnership, which star ted in 2016. This is the first MIECHV award in Cuyahoga County, and will help MetroHealth enroll up to 140 families in the first year. The Nurse- Family Par tnership pairs a registered nurse with a woman who is pregnant with her first child. The nurse visits the mom-to-be in her home before the baby is born and continues those visits until the baby turns two. The goal is to prevent health problems, espe - cially preterm bir ths — the number one cause of infant death. Construction of Summa Health's new six-stor y, 331,000-square- foot west bed tower will begin this year. The new tower will ser ve as the hospital's new main entrance and will house two 36-bed medical /surgical units with all private rooms, a breast center, eight new operating rooms, 65 same-day surger y rooms and a women's health center that includes a 36-bed post-par tum unit. The $350 million project also includes the renovation of 64,000 square feet of the existing hospital. These renovations will focus on the ground floor imaging depar tment and first floor surger y, as well as create private inpatient rooms within the existing patient floors. Construction is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019. Union Hospital in Dover has been named to the Top 500 of the 2016 HomeCare Elite ® , a recognition of the top-per forming home health agencies in the United States. For more than 10 years, HomeCare Elite has annually identified the top 25 percent of agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. This is the eighth year that Union Hospital Home Health Care has ranked among the HomeCare Elite nationally and third consecutive year of being named to the Top 500. University Hospitals (UH) has received a $500,000 grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Star t-up Fund (T VSF), par t of the Ohio Third Frontier, to suppor t the UH Technology Venture Fund. UH will match the grant with an equal amount of money to create a million dollar pool of funds that will in turn suppor t validation projects for technologies or devices which already have achieved proof of concept and have the poten - tial for licensing to Ohio star tup companies. The grant will help expedite the process of moving new devices and technologies from the laboratories into the marketplace. UH Rainbow Babies & Children's researchers, in a first-of-its- kind study, found that lap infants may be at greater risk for injur y on a commercial airline flight than older children traveling in their own seats or using in-flight restraints. The study analyzed in-flight medical events (IFMEs) on flights worldwide between Januar y 2009 and Januar y 2014 and found 35 percent of all pe - diatric in-flight injuries occurred in passengers under the age of 2. The researchers found that the most common mechanism of injur y was scalding burns from hot beverages or soups spilled on a child, followed by falls from the seat involving lap infants. UH Seidman Cancer Center physicians are among the first in the U.S. to offer MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) guided prostate biopsy. Using sophisticated MRI imaging, the technology enables physicians to better visualize and biopsy cancerous cells within the prostate. Per formed inside the MRI gantr y, this technology enables physicians to distinguish tumors from healthy tissue. Using the advanced MRI images, they are able to then per form a targeted prostate biopsy. Western Reser ve Hospital has par tnered with Collide (Cuyahoga Falls and Ar tsNow of Summit County) to provide inspiring ar twork from the local creative community. The hospital-based curated collection is on display in Western Reser ve Hospital's oncology rooms on an eight- to ten-week rotation, after wards appearing in an open exhibit in the hospital's public access community galler y area. Exposing patients to ar t provides them with positive energy that assists in the healing process. This project also provides local ar tists the oppor tunity to exhibit their ar twork in the community. 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 Ted@mdnews.com. ■ 2 9 M D N E W S . C O M /// M D N E W S C L E V E L A N D /A K R O N / C A N T O N ■ J A N U A R Y/ F E B R U A R Y 2 017

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