University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Medical ICU Earns Beacon Award for Second Consecutive Year
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 (1115 reads)
The University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Medical Intensive Care
Unit (MICU) has been designated a 2007 recipient of the Beacon Award
for Critical Care Excellence. The Beacon Award is given by the American
Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) and recognizes the nation's
top hospitals critical care units.
University Hospitals Case Medical Center's MICU is recognized as a
Beacon Award winner due to the unit's commitment to the highest quality
standards in nurse recruitment and retention, patient outcomes, staff
training, healthy work environments, leadership and evidence-based
practice and research. Last year, the MICU was the only northern Ohio
recipient of the Beacon Award. This year, they are one of two units,
nationally, to have ever achieved this award two years consecutively.
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AIDS Study Challenges Conventional Treatment Guidelines for HIV Patients
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 (774 reads)
A newly published study by investigators at the Center for AIDS Research at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, led by Benigno Rodríguez, MD,
along with a nationwide team of AIDS/HIV experts, strongly challenges
conventional thinking about the role of measurements of the amount of
HIV particles in the blood as a method of predicting the rate of
progression of HIV disease. The study, published in the current issue
of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association),
indicates that the amount of HIV in a patient's blood (commonly known
as the viral load) is much less reliable as a tool for determining the
rate at which he or she will lose infection-fighting CD4 cells than
previously thought.
HIV targets CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, and as they
decline after HIV infection, the complications that characterize the
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) become more common. These
study results showed that the viral load explains only about 5% of the
variation from person to person in the rate of CD4 cell loss. Thus, CD4
depletion cannot be viewed as a simple consequence
of the amount of virus circulating in the blood.
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Dr. Gerson Named Board Member of Prestigious Cancer Research Association
Monday, September 25, 2006 (868 reads)
CLEVELAND - Stanton L. Gerson, M.D, Director of the
Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and
Director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer
Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, was elected Board Member of
the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). He will begin
serving a three-year term at the 2006 AACI Annual Meeting, October 22 -
24 in Chicago. He is joined by fellow new board members Mark Israel,
M.D., Director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Medical
School, and John Mendelsohn, M.D. president of The University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
The prestigious Association of American Cancer Institutes is
comprised the 87 leading cancer research centers in the United States
39 of which have achieved the NCI designation as Comprehensive Cancer
Centers. The Association is dedicated to promoting the nation's leading
research institutions' efforts to eradicate cancer through a
comprehensive and multidisciplinary program of cancer research,
treatment, patient care, prevention, education and community outreach.
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University Hospitals Enables Historic Expansion at Its Cleveland Campus by Purchasing Former OfficeMax Headquarters
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (1148 reads)
CLEVELAND - University Hospitals today took the first major
step in its historic clinical expansion of its Case Medical Center
campus in Cleveland by signing a letter of intent to purchase the
former OfficeMax headquarters in Shakers Heights.
The 217,000-square-foot building will be used to consolidate
University Hospitals' non-clinical offices from throughout Northeast
Ohio and to make room on its Cleveland campus for a freestanding Cancer
Hospital, an expanded Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department and new
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital.
UH's overall strategy will generate hundreds of jobs for Cleveland,
Shaker Heights and other Northeast Ohio communities.
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University Hospitals to Implement Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager to Enhance Patient Safety and Improve Quality of Care
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 (2472 reads)
Boca Raton, FL, & Cleveland, OH, September 20, 2006 - Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®,
today announced that University Hospitals (UH), Cleveland, OH, has
contracted for Sunrise Clinical Manager and its fully integrated
modules, including Sunrise Acute Care, Sunrise Ambulatory Care, Sunrise
Emergency Care, Sunrise Critical Care, Sunrise Pharmacy,and
Knowledge-Based Charting.
Consistently ranked among America's best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report,
UH is a leading healthcare delivery system in Northeast Ohio with 150
locations throughout the region. An interdisciplinary team of UH
physicians, nurses and senior management selected Eclipsys after an
extensive analysis of other clinical information solutions.
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UH Receives $1.5 Million Gift for Rainbow's Center for Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery
Monday, September 18, 2006 (788 reads)
CLEVELAND (September 18, 2006) - University Hospitals today announced a gift of $1.5 million from The Cleveland Foundation to support the establishment of the Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital Center for Minimally Invasive Pediatric Surgery (MIPS). This investment is the largest gift The Cleveland Foundation has ever awarded to a hospital.
"The Cleveland Foundation is pleased to support University Hospitals, and to partner with its pediatric arm, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital," said Ronn Richard, president, The Cleveland Foundation. "Both our organization and UH share a common vision to enhance the lives of Greater Clevelanders by taking a leadership role on key community issues. This particular project has the potential to dramatically improve, even save, more children's lives across this community and state, and potentially around the world. We are proud to be associated with this effort."
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4th Annual Mix 106.5 Brian & Joe Rainbow Radiothon Raises over $450,000
Monday, September 18, 2006 (1014 reads)
CLEVELAND - (September 18, 2006) Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and WMVX 106.5 FM teamed up to hold the fourth annual Mix 106.5 Brian & Joe Rainbow Radiothon and raised more than $450,016 during a three-day broadcast. The Radiothon, presented this year by Foresters and Sam's Club, ran from Thursday, September 14 th through Saturday, September 16 th.
During the course of the three days, many local patients and families shared their heartfelt stories of experiences at Rainbow with the Cleveland community, local celebrities stopped by, and the hospital was buzzing with activities as the radio station broadcasted live on-site.
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Horvitz Family Donates $5 Million to UH Vision 2010 for Pediatric Emergency Center
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 (1058 reads)
CLEVELAND (September 13, 2006) – Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital at University Hospitals (UH) today announced a $5 million gift from the families of Leonard and Joan Horvitz and Richard, Danielle and Matthew Horvitz. The family’s generosity will be recognized through the naming of The Marcy R. Horvitz Pediatric Emergency Center, in honor of Richard’s late wife. The Horvitz Pediatric Emergency Center is a critical component of UH’s Vision 2010 plan to build a new Center for Emergency Medicine facility at the Case Medical Center campus to serve both adults and children.
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University Hospitals Receives $5 Million, Largest Gift in U.S.
Saturday, September 09, 2006 (1223 reads)
CLEVELAND - University
Hospitals Department of Dermatology has received a $5 million gift from
The Murdough Foundation to advance the research and treatment of
psoriasis, a chronic genetic disease that affects the skin and the
joints. The gift is the largest known in the U.S., for dermatology, at
an academic medical center. The Murdough Family Center for Psoriasis
will support and stimulate clinical research and treatment for, and
education about, psoriasis.
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