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. • 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.

Kristi Sink, Chief Operating Officer, UH Elyria Medical Center

BRINGING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO UH

Throughout the UH health system – from Elyria to Richland to Kent, expanded health care services and new construction are underway to meet patients where their needs are.

In 2019, UH Elyria commenced an $11.2 million transformational renovation, with an expected completion date in 2021. The renovation will expand surgical services, including cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeries through the UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, and orthopedic, spine and neurosurgeries through the UH Sports Medicine Institute and UH Neurological Institute. Additional service capabilities will be provided through the UH Digestive Health Institute, the UH Urology Institute, and the renovation will also improve facilities for general surgery and podiatry. UH Elyria and Parma medical centers attained provisional Level III Trauma status in 2019 (among five UH hospitals operating at this level for adult patients, with Level I Trauma at UH Cleveland Medical Center). In 2019, the Parma Hospital Health Care Foundation contributed $2 million to support the renovation and expansion of surgical services at UH Parma Medical Center.

The $27.5 million project is the largest construction effort undertaken at UH Parma Medical Center in over 30 years. Additionally, UH Parma introduced the system’s first Lung Nodule Clinic and a new linear accelerator for radiation therapy at UH Parma Seidman Cancer Center.

“The goal was to provide health care for a community that didn’t have convenient access to it,” said Bryan Finger, Director of Clinical Operations, UH Samaritan Medical Center.

Further south, UH Samaritan Medical Center received $1.7 million in support from Samaritan Hospital Foundation to advance programmatic and capital needs, including an expanded cardiac catheterization lab. Nearby, UH also opened UH Samaritan Richland Health Center to serve a medically underserved region in Richland County. The $17 million ambulatory health center provides urgent care, physician suites and imaging services.

Other new UH urgent cares opened in New London and Huron County. UH Samaritan Urgent Care moved to accommodate the addition of telehealth services in its prior location. UH Orthopedic Injury Clinics were also introduced in 2019 at UH Broadview Heights Health Center, UH Ahuja and UH Geauga medical centers, to provide walk-in patients with immediate care of broken bones, sprains and strains.