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UH Breaking Ground on New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Monday, February 26, 2007 (2766 reads)

CLEVELAND – Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital at University Hospitals Case Medical Center is breaking ground on the Quentin & Elisabeth Alexander Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) today. Plans for the new unit were announced last year as part of UH’s Vision 2010 initiatives.

The new NICU is being named in recognition of an unprecedented gift from The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation this past summer. The Prentiss Foundation gave a $10 million gift to University Hospitals, $7 million of that going towards the new NICU at Rainbow. Quentin and Elisabeth Alexander have been long-time trustees of the Prentiss Foundation, and the naming honors their service and leadership to The Prentiss Foundation and Rainbow. Betty Alexander is a former president of the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Foundation, and Quentin served as a University Hospitals trustee for many years.



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Expanded AIDS Research and Microbicide Trials to Include HIV Positive and Uninfected People
Thursday, February 22, 2007 (1933 reads)

CLEVELAND – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded multi-year, multi-million dollar grants to The Case Clinical Trials Unit centered at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC), for expanded research options in HIV treatment development and pioneering advances of the Microbicides Trials Network.

The seven-year funding award is comprised of $2.1 million for the first year of clinical trials research as well as additional funds to support an immunology laboratory housed at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, one of five such funded labs in the nation. The grant will allow University Hospitals Case Medical Center, a top-ranked AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, to continue and significantly expand the work of its clinical research. The grant money will also fund collaborative sites at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland and at the Joint Clinical Research Center (JCRC) in Kampala, Uganda.



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University Hospitals Acquires 25 Acres Along I-90 in Concord Township; UH considers options to meet increasing need for services in Lake, Geauga counties
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 (2624 reads)

CLEVELAND – University Hospitals announced today that it has acquired 25 acres of land off the Interstate 90/Route 44 interchange in Concord Township and is considering possible uses for the site to best serve the needs of the rapidly growing communities in Lake and Geauga counties.

“We have seen a significant increase in the number of patients and physicians associated with University Hospitals in the Lake and Geauga County region, and, as a result, we have analyzed expansion options in these communities for quite some time,” said Achilles A. Demetriou, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. “When this property became available, we recognized how perfectly it suits our needs and we seized the opportunity to purchase it. The location along two major highways is easily accessible for residents in both counties and is highly visible.”



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Renowned Physician to Lead Rainbow’s General Surgery Division
Thursday, February 15, 2007 (3457 reads)

CLEVELAND – University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital has appointed Edward M. Barksdale, Jr., MD as the new chief of pediatric general surgery. Dr. Barksdale will be the first holder of the Robert J. Izant, Jr., MD Chair in Pediatric Surgery.

“We are honored and fortunate to have Dr. Barksdale join our team and lead the pediatric general surgery division. He is the perfect candidate to be the first physician to hold the Izant chair,” said Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, chairman of surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center. “He brings tremendous talent and passion with him, and he will help take Rainbow’s surgical expertise to an even higher level of patient care and service.” Dr. Barksdale’s recruitment is consistent with University Hospitals’ investment in surgical innovation as a component of the Vision 2010 strategic plan.



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