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Pandemic Brings Radical Change
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world in 2020, Cleveland Clinic was well-prepared with beds, equipment and personnel. Extensive efforts were undertaken to ensure there were no lapses in patient care, and Cleveland Clinic researchers also participated in dozens of COVID-19 related studies and authored hundreds of publications. As its peers furloughed caregivers, Cleveland Clinic remained committed to preserving jobs.
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Lara Jehi, MD, is named Chief Research Information Officer, a newly created position to advance biomedical research throughout Cleveland Clinic.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clears 3D-printed patient-specific airway stents developed by Cleveland Clinic physician Tom Gildea, MD.
Cleveland Clinic is named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 10th time.
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Matthew Kull is named Chief Information Officer.
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Among the first academic medical centers to offer COVID-19 testing
Led by Brian Rubin, MD, PhD, Chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute (PLMI), Cleveland Clinic developed its own diagnostic test for COVID-19. As a result, Cleveland Clinic was one of the first academic medical centers in the U.S. to offer COVID-19 diagnostic testing to potentially infected patients. Technicians in PLMI labs worked around the clock to process tests, eventually reaching a peak of 5,000 per day, with results available within 13-15 hours.
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Cleveland Clinic leaders in Ohio and Florida collaborate with state and local government and public health agencies to ensure that patients would be adequately cared for in the event of a COVD-19 surge. Leading this effort was Robert Wyllie, MD, Chief Medical Operations Officer.
Prepared for a COVID-19 surge
When its models indicated that a potential local surge of COVID-19 infection might overwhelm hospital capacity in the area, Cleveland Clinic converted its Health Education Campus (which it shares with Case Western Reserve University) into a temporary surge hospital. Thanks to aggressive public health measures, the surge hospital was not needed and it was decommissioned in June 2020.
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Caregivers come to the aid of hospitals
Teams of Cleveland Clinic doctors and nurses had volunteered to travel to harder-hit areas, including New York City, Detroit and Abu Dhabi, to help care for patients in hospitals overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cleveland Clinic establishes the Global Center for Pathogen Research and Human Health.
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Chief Clinical Transformation Officer James Merlino, MD, launches a series of playbooks with information on how various industries might resume operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Merlino's team produces nearly 20 playbooks for businesses, churches, schools and community organizations.
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Kelly Hancock, DNP, is named Chief Caregiver Officer. This is the first position of its kind at Cleveland Clinic and was created to align all aspects of caregiver engagement with a focus on enhancing the organization's unique team-based culture.
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Leslie Jurecko, MD, MBA, is named Chief Safety and Quality Officer.
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Cleveland Clinic Florida opens the Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
The National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health awards a grant to Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health to establish the Nevada exploratory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (NVeADRC).
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Cleveland Clinic is named Health Security Advisor to the Commission on Presidential Debates, a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that sponsors general election debates. As a result of this relationship, Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University are asked to host the first presidential debate of the 2020 election at their shared Health Education Campus.
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Connor Delaney, MD, PhD, succeeds Wael Barsoum, MD, as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Florida region.
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As one of 10 “pre-positioned” vaccine sites in Ohio, Cleveland Clinic was among the earliest hospitals to administer the first vaccines for COVID-19 authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Beri Ridgeway, MD, succeeds Herbert Wiedemann, MD, as Chief of Staff in 2021.
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Donald Malone, Jr., MD, succeeds Edmund Sabanegh, MD, as President of Cleveland Clinic main campus and regional hospitals in 2021.