Cleveland Medical Center, founded in 1921, is located in Cleveland, Ohio, the United States. It has 3000 doctors, 15000 nurse doctor assistants, and 43000 employees. It ranks second in the United States in general hospitals, second only to the Mayo Clinic, and first in the United States in cardiac/cardiac surgery.
Cleveland Medical Center attracts patients from all over the world. So what secret weapons does the Cleveland Clinic have, from a medical institution in a second tier American city to a medical group with worldwide influence?
1、 Glorious history
Founded on February 28, 1921, the Cleveland Clinic is affiliated to and operated by the Cleveland Clinical Foundation, a non-profit organization in Ohio. Hospitals that have done well are established with original intention, not for profit.
At the beginning of its establishment, the Cleveland Clinic established the Cleveland Laboratory and Research Office. In 1922, the Cleveland Clinic established the Inpatient Department, the Radiotherapy Department and the Insulin Injection Department. In 1959, Kolff, the father of artificial kidney, established the kidney dialysis department of Cleveland Clinic.
Briefly introduce this Kolff, whose full name is Willem KOLFF. He made the prototype of the artificial dialysis machine. It is said that the machine at that time was as big as a room. He died in 2009 and was rated as one of the "100 Most Important Americans in the 20th Century".
In 2003, more than 1000 heart transplants were performed at the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Medical Center completed the first coronary angiography, the first coronary artery bypass surgery, the first successful throat transplantation, and the first nearly full face transplantation in the world. The Cleveland Clinic has a long history and has made many major medical breakthroughs. It is such brilliant achievements that have created the current status.
2、 The concept of taking patients as the absolute core
In 2004, Cosgrove, a cardiothoracic surgeon, was appointed President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic. When Cosgrove appeared at the first staff meeting as CEO, he gave everyone a simple badge engraved with "Patients First".
Since then, this creed has defined and guided everything the whole hospital has done. This great manager retired in 2017, and Cleveland has created one miracle after another during his 13 years in office.
Since then, Cleveland Clinic has taken "every life deserves world-class care" as its mission and started a series of management innovations. These include breaking the traditional specialized management mode, canceling the restriction of internal surgery, and concentrating related specialties, such as the establishment of the Digestive Disease Center, Cardiovascular Disease Center, and Respiratory Disease Center.
This patient-centered, integrated medical resources model makes it most convenient for patients to see a doctor. It is precisely because of this innovation in management mode that Cleveland Clinic's Heart Disease Center, Digestive Disease Center, Rheumatology and Immunization Center, Kidney Disease Center, Endocrinology Department, Gynecology Department, Respiratory Disease Center and other specialties rank among the best in the United States. In the ranking of U.S. News&World Report, since 1995, Cleveland's cardiac surgery has been ranked first for 25 years.
Cleveland Clinic is also the first American hospital to introduce "smart ward" design, mobile integrated medical information system and other technologies, which makes the operation cost of Cleveland Clinic nearly 20% lower than that of similar American hospitals. In 2019, the Cleveland Clinic received 10 million outpatients, 309000 inpatients, and 255000 operations. The survival rate of patients was 34% higher than the average level of other hospitals in the United States.
The famous saying of Cleveland Medical Center is that every life deserves world-class care. It's not just a verbal statement, but it's actually not easy to really implement it. Cleveland did it!
3、 An environment full of world-class art halls
"If art or painting can free people's minds from pain and reduce the level of stress, so that patients can leave hospital as soon as possible, then art is not just a decoration. It is a part of the whole nursing model".
Based on this concept, the art project team of the Cleveland Clinic has been developing vigorously in the past decade. Most of the works of art are donated from various countries, so it does not require much money. However, such an environment undoubtedly gives patients a better experience and environment during their convalescence.
4、 Finally, I attach Cleveland's medical innovation:
Initiated non-contact colorectal surgery (1950s)
The world's first coronary angiography (1958)
Development and improvement of coronary artery bypass grafting (1967)
The first minimally invasive aortic valve surgery (1996)
The First Successful Laryngeal Transplantation (1998)
# 1 genes related to juvenile macular degeneration were found (2000)
# 1 genes related to coronary artery disease were found (2003)
The first case of kidney surgery through the umbilicus (2007)
The first approximate full face transplantation in the United States (2008)
The World's First Heart and Lung Transplantation Using a Total Artificial Heart (2009)
