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  Cleveland Clinic to tighten ethics policy - Boston.com
The Cleveland Clinic will create a standing committee on ethics to ensure patients are aware of possible ethical conflicts involving doctors, trustees and the research hospital's growing business ventures.
CLEVELAND --The Cleveland Clinic will create a standing committee on ethics to ensure patients are aware of possible ethical conflicts involving doctors, trustees and the research hospital's growing business ventures.
The law firm that reviewed ethics oversight at the clinic, McDermott Will and Emery of Chicago, said actions taken by trustees in response to the outside audit were consistent with the board's goal of creating the best possible approach to ethics matters.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/05/09/cleveland_clinic_to_tighten_ethics_policy   (564 words)

  
  Cleveland Clinic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cleveland Clinic is a prominent health care center in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1921 by four prominent physicians, now with approximately 1,600 staff physicians providing for 2 million outpatient visits and 50,000 hospital admissions per year.
The Clinic has consistently been ranked among the top five "Best Hospitals in America" by U.S. News and World Report, with particular strengths in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, urology, and gastroenterology; its Heart Center has ranked number one in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery for each of the past eleven years.
Founded in 1921, the Clinic and its services are administered by the not-for-profit Cleveland Clinic Foundation, which also leads a network of eight affiliated community hospitals in northeastern Ohio and health care centers in Weston, Florida and Naples, Florida.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleveland_Clinic   (181 words)

  
 WorldCare - The Cleveland Clinic Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Founded in 1921, the Cleveland Clinic is a 1,058 bed, multi-institutional medical center that fulfills its core missions of research, education, and patient care by utilizing efficient technology and knowledge-based methodologies to provide expert, multidisciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic care in over 120 specialties and subspecialties.
In 2002, The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center performed 3,825 cardiac surgical procedures, substantially more than any other center in the U.S. Of those procedures, 520 were minimally invasive valve repairs/replacements with a 0% mortality rate, again representing the largest subspecialty practice in the nation.
The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center performed 60 heart transplants in 2002 and its overall mortality rate for all cardiac surgical procedures was 2.0%.
www.worldcare.com /NewFiles/cleveland.html   (848 words)

  
 Best Hospitals, The Cleveland Clinic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anne Mulcahy, the first woman in the history of Xerox to be named Chairman and CEO, was a featured speaker at Cleveland Clinic’s “Ideas for...
We are pleased to announce that the Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorders Center has opened a sleep lab in Willoughby.
Cleveland Clinic has teamed with James Beard Award-winning cookbook authors Bonnie Sanders Polin and Frances Towner Giedt to create a complete and...
www.clevelandclinic.org   (160 words)

  
 Career Opportunities
The Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.
The Cleveland Clinic approach is to foster creativity and cooperation in the pursuit of a common goal: creating world class service for our patients and their families.
The Cleveland Clinic is the only hospital in the greater Cleveland area and the second hospital in Ohio to be recognized.
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 Cleveland Clinic Overview
Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 as a not-for-profit group practice, integrating clinical and hospital care with research and physician education.
As a not-for-profit hospital, Cleveland Clinic serves its community with charity care; extensive medical, educational and community service programs; and civic education initiatives.
Each year, Cleveland Clinic and its health system of community hospitals and family health and ambulatory surgery centers proudly provide more than $300 million in benefits to the communities we serve.
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Overall, the magazine ranked 16 specialties at the Clinic among the nation's best and deemed 11 of those specialties to be among the Top 10 in the United States.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cleveland Clinic has been awarded a five-year, $17.22 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance its research into the science of heart attacks.
The federal funding will support Clinic studies in four key areas: the genetics of heart attacks, the genetics of atherosclerosis, the role of proteins in arterial disease, and the role of inflammation markers in the formation of coronary plaques.
www.lycos.com /info/cleveland--cleveland-clinic.html   (283 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic invests in remote monitoring of patients - Boston.com
A new Cleveland Clinic business venture means doctors will soon use technology to be able to monitor chronically ill patients remotely -- from watching blood pressure via telephone lines to one day keeping tabs on heart rhythms from a distance.
CLEVELAND --A new Cleveland Clinic business venture means doctors will soon use technology to be able to monitor chronically ill patients remotely -- from watching blood pressure via telephone lines to one day keeping tabs on heart rhythms from a distance.
Marc Penn, director of the Clinic's Bakken Heart-Brain Institute and medical director of its coronary intensive care unit, will be the lead clinical researcher on the project, Coburn said.
www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/03/08/cleveland_clinic_invests_in_remote_monitoring_of_patients   (475 words)

  
 Huron School of Nursing - Cleveland Clinic Health System
The Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) was formed by a series of mergers among Greater Cleveland hospitals, as a response to changes in the regional health care marketplace.
Under the leadership of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic Health System assures that the Greater Cleveland area will have a solid source of high quality community health care for a long time to come.
The CCHS hospitals include the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Euclid Hospital, Fairview Hospital, Hillcrest Hospital, Huron Hospital, Lakewood Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, Marymount Hospital and South Pointe Hospital and an affiliated member, Ashtabula County Medical Center.
www.cchseast.org /Schools/Nursing/History.aspx   (582 words)

  
 cleveland.com: Community
The Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation (inc. 1935) was one of the first institutions to promote continuing medical education.
The clinic was, by this time, the largest non-government employer in Cleveland, with 10,189 employees in 1994 and an international reputation for specialized medical care.
In the 1990s the Cleveland Clinic Foundation expanded, including the first phase of a Health Sciences Center for research and education, and a free-standing emergency department.
www.cleveland.com /fairfax/index.ssf?/community/more/history/clevelandclinic.html   (672 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic Moves to Fight Conflicts of Interest - New York Times
The Cleveland Clinic's board has agreed to take steps to address concerns about potential conflicts of interest that have dogged the institution and its doctors for more than a year.
The clinic, a nonprofit medical research and treatment center, said today that the new measures would give the board of trustees a greater role in examining and curtailing industry relationships that might bias research or patient care.
The clinic said it would use an extensive database to flag any potential conflicts, allowing them to be better vetted and managed by the institution.
www.nytimes.com /2006/05/09/business/09cnd-clinic.html?ex=1304827200&en=e62727e383e41688&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (944 words)

  
 The Cleveland Clinic Health System Selects Kronos for Healthcare
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.
The Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation.
Ten of the hospitals are operated in the Cleveland metropolitan area, anchored by its flagship, Cleveland Clinic.
www.kronos.com /About/pr_Cleveland_Clinic_feb13.htm   (598 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Cleveland doctors George W. Crile, Frank E. Bunts, William E. Lower, and John Phillips founded the Cleveland Clinic Foundation on February 5, 1921.
For the past twenty years, the clinic has served as the largest postgraduate medical training program in the United States that is not associated with a medical school.
In the 1990s, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation was second only to the government in terms of employment figures in Cleveland.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=688   (397 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic now cozying up to alternative medicine
The Clinic is beginning to introduce its doctors to established nontraditional treatments such as meditation, dance therapy and tai chi.
Fox, a researcher in the Clinic's cardiology department, points to a recent survey showing that two-thirds of Americans have tried alternative therapies, from acupuncture to herbal remedies to music therapy.
Her mission at the Center for Alternative Medicine is to help Clinic doctors learn about the value of proven therapies while researching the potential of others.
altmed.creighton.edu /readings/cleveland_clinic.htm   (720 words)

  
 Success Story - Cleveland Clinic Foundation
The mission of the Cleveland Clinic, a not-for-profit foundation launched in 1921, is to provide compassionate, high-quality healthcare in a setting of education and research.
The Clinic, which includes twelve hospitals scattered along Cleveland's Lake Erie shoreline, was recently named to be one of the top five hospitals in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
While the Clinic understood the medical necessity of deploying these life-saving technologies, it also realized that the impact of utilizing these devices would be to drive the rate of data growth even faster on a per client basis.
www.sun.com /storagetek/success-stories/cleveland_clinic.xml   (1757 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic Guesthouse - Discount Hotel Rooms at Orbitz
The Cleveland Clinic Guesthouse offers comfortable and convenient accommodations for patients, family members and visitors to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Greater Cleveland Area.
The Cleveland Clinic Guest House features 74 rooms with kitchenettes and 15 fully equipped ADA accommodations.
Located within the Historical district of the City of Lakewood, A West side suburb of Cleveland, Our Days Inn is a family owned and operated hotel with a friendly staff; our hotel provides you with access to:* Area Attractions*...
www.orbitz.com /hotel-info/OH/UZ-6476.html   (578 words)

  
 cleveland.com: Weblogs
Steven Nissen, chairman of the Clinic's department of cardiovascular medicine, is scheduled to participate.
The Cleveland Clinic has partnered with GE Healthcare and AmSurg, a group of ambulatory surgery centers, in an effort to increase patient access to colon cancer screening.
Cleveland Clinic researchers have planned a clinical trial to assess the safety and effectiveness of combining two therapies for the advanced, or “wet,” form of age-related macular degeneration.
www.cleveland.com /weblogs/medical/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_medical/archives/2006_11.html   (1413 words)

  
 Senior News - Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic Florida Naples Hospital will further offer a full emergency department open around the clock, an intensive care unit, and other critical support services including laboratory and pathology processing.
Having practiced at Cleveland Clinic Florida in Fort Lauderdale for the past six years, she has permanently relocated to Naples to direct the Department of Ophthalmology and offer the latest services and treatments to Southwest Florida patients, from prevenative care to prescriptive therapy and surgery.
At Cleveland Clinic Florida Naples, gynecologist and Fellow of the American College of Gynecology Dennis Hidlebaugh, M.D. is helping women explore the latest and most effective treaments.
www.theseniorguide.com /news/cleveland/cleveland.htm   (1408 words)

  
 Cleveland Health & Medical Meetings Industry Facts - Cleveland Ohio - Convention & Visitors Bureau - CVB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Greater Cleveland is one of the world's leading medical centers with 21 hospitals, many of which are enriched by their connection to area medical schools.
The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center is one of six U.S. centers collaborating in a national colorectal cancer registry, funded by a four-year, $10 million National Institute for Health grant.
For the third year in a row, the Cleveland Clinic was the site of an unprecedented, international gathering of decision makers from throughout the health care sector.
www.travelcleveland.com /meeting_planners/health   (1100 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic Florida > Physician Directory
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (neurology residency and electromyography fellowship)
The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (neurology, electroencephalography, and electromyography fellowship)
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (internal medicine internship, neurology residency and cerebrovascular disease fellowship)
sck.clevelandclinic.org /florida/physicians/physicians.asp?location=weston&department=24   (752 words)

  
 About ERC Health - Cleveland Clinic Resources
The Cleveland Clinic, a multi-year NorthCoast 99 winner, is one of the largest and most respected nonprofit multi-specialty academic medical centers in the country.
Today, Cleveland Clinic continues to be dedicated to their mission of “better care for the sick, investigation of their problems, and further education of those who serve.” Below are helpful resources from the Cleveland Clinic:
Your Personal Health Connection™ is a secure, on-line health management tool that is used by tens of thousands of Cleveland Clinic patients to review past appointments and physician instructions, receive laboratory and other test results released by their physician(s) and more...
www.erchealth.com /about/clinic.asp   (231 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio - Surgeons at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, a leader in ophthalmic treatment and research, demonstrated the latest retinal surgery techniques in a live Internet broadcast at 12:15 pm EDT on April 29, 2005.
Peter K. Kaiser, an ophthalmologist in the Vitreoretinal Department at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, moderated the live event for both the Internet audience and the Summit participants in the InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center at The Cleveland Clinic.
The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute provides outstanding resources for clinicians and researchers seeking to treat such complex problems as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataracts, retinal detachments, uveitis, strabismus and pediatric eye disorders, among many other diseases.
www.or-live.com /clevelandclinic/1335   (282 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic Information
The Cleveland Clinic is one of the five top hospitals in America, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual guide to "America's Best Hospitals."
Continuing a tradition that includes the world's first coronary artery bypass, The Cleveland Clinic is leading the way in areas ranging from robotic surgery to cancer treatment and better care for childhood diseases.
Care at The Cleveland Clinic is backed up by one of the country's largest physician-education programs and a growing research institute.
www.webmd.com /content/article/89/100404.htm   (185 words)

  
 Medical Miracles | Cleveland Clinic and WKYC
The Cleveland Clinic Cancer Pain Clinic is a joint effort between the Cleveland Clinic Pain Management Department and the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center.
The Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center is the top ranked cancer center in Ohio and has consistently ranked among the best in the country.
LifeBanc is a federally approved non-profit organ procurement organization established to assist with the identification, management, procurement and subsequent utilization of organs and tissue for transplantation, and is certified by the Health Care Finance Administration to coordinate donations in Northeast Ohio.
www.wkyc.com /miracles/about/tacklingpain.asp   (1618 words)

  
 Cleveland Clinic Protocols
Clinical protocols, developed by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, are exclusively available in HealthLine Systems' Sharp Focus contact center software.
The Cleveland Clinic's guideline protocols have been put to the test with proven effectiveness.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation provides the only clinical protocols available with regular updates drawing on the expertise of over 200 pediatric, family practice and internal medicine physicians from what US News and World Report ranks as the number one heart center and one of the top ten academic medical centers on the planet
www.healthlinesystems.com /sf_clinicalprotocols.asp   (509 words)

  
 Med Help International The Patient Medical and Health Information Center (tm)
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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation makes no endorsements of any particular product or treatment, makes no representations and assumes no liability relative to any content, opinions, e-mail addresses, and/or computer viruses which may be transmitted relative to such forums and chat groups.
In no event will The Cleveland Clinic Foundation be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you or anyone else in reliance upon the information provided through this Forum.
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