UH Community Highlights UH IN THE COMMUNITY As a nonprofit health system, University Hospitals is committed to organized and sustainable community benefit programs for our region’s most pressing health care needs. In 2019, UH contributed $429 million in community benefit, including $50 million in charity care, and $3 billion over the last decade for programs that support community health improvement, education and training, research, charity care and Medicaid shortfall. More than that, UH embraces our role as an anchor institution for the region – one that is able to influence the wellbeing of the community on a broad scale through our economic impact and engagement in addressing many of the region’s most pressing challenges.
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• UH is a founder and continues
to support the Cleveland Model, a collaborative approach to the creation of large-scale employeeowned businesses that bring new jobs to economically challenged neighborhoods. • UH Rainbow Center for Women
& Children marked its first anniversary providing care and educational support that addresses infant mortality and maternal morbidity issues in our urban center. • As a founding member of the
Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, UH is working collaboratively to bring innovative solutions to the opioid crisis that are having impact locally and influencing the nation.
UH is also leveraging our expertise to improve population health throughout Northeastern Ohio. • Free health screenings and
educational talks are provided throughout the region, including those for heart, colon cancer, dementia, hernia, knee and hip replacements, sleep disorders and more. • UH Harrington Heart & Vascular
Institute received the University Circle, Inc., Stephanie Tubbs Jones Neighborhood Leadership Award for training nearly 400 local workers and residents in CPR and AED, creating a Sudden Cardiac Death-Free Zone. • UH EMS Institute received national
honors for our “Stop the Bleed” training focused on preparing more than 100 school districts in Northeast Ohio for traumatic events.
