The Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.
The Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians who shared a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation.
Today, Cleveland Clinic is one of the largest and most respected hospitals in the world.
Cleveland Clinic's approach is to foster creativity and cooperation in the pursuit of a common goal: creating world class service for our patients and their families. In doing so, we have become one of the world's largest and busiest health centers and our reputation for outstanding care ever growing.
Cleveland, Ohio (as described at http://www.ercnet.org/neohio/culture.htm) is a great place to live and work. The main hospital campus is located near Cleveland’s historic University Circle, home of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Occupying 140 acres and 37 buildings, the main Cleveland Clinic campus includes a hospital, an outpatient clinic, cancer center, eye institute, research institute and supporting labs and facilities.
Job Opportunities
Although the majority of the positions available here involve clinical care, Cleveland Clinic also offers an array of healthcare-related career opportunities and positions.
Fields include healthcare administration, accounting, healthcare law, human resources, food services, information technology, construction management, environmental services, patient services, parking services, marketing, communications and fund raising.
The Clinic also offers attractive, competitive compensation and benefit packages.
Physician Career Opportunities
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation is constantly growing to meet the medical needs of our patients. Consistent with this continued growth the Office of Physician Recruitment, Office of Professional Staff Affairs is responsible for pursuing quality, caring medical professionals to augment our staff.
If you have an interest in securing information specific to your specialty and the current needs of the Cleveland Clinic, please contact Joe Vitale, Director, Office of Physician Recruitment, Professional Staff Affairs at vitalej@ccf.org.
Recognition
U.S. News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic one of the nation’s best hospitals in its annual "America’s Best Hospitals" survey. In 2007, the Clinic was ranked among America's Top Hospitals overall and our Heart Center was once again ranked best in the nation. Cleveland Clinic was also recognized as one of the top hospitals in all 17 specialties surveyed by the magazine.
In June, 2003, the American Nurses Credentialing Committee (ANC)—an arm of the American Nurses Association and the nation's largest nursing accrediting and credentialing organization—awarded Magnet status to the Cleveland Clinic nursing staff.
To become a Magnet hospital, nursing services must pass a rigorous review administered by the ANCC. A hospital must successfully meet or exceed expectations in 14 categories of care and performance criteria. Cleveland Clinic is the only hospital in the greater Cleveland area and the second hospital in Ohio to be recognized. Just one percent of the nation's more than 6,000 hospitals have earned the distinction of ANCC Magnet status.
Cleveland Clinic also has been named one of the nation’s best hospitals in the HCIA-Sachs annual Top 100 Hospitals study of medical and operational excellence.
Cleveland Clinic Health System
The Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) combines the area’s best community hospitals with the world-class care of The Cleveland Clinic. Comprising 8 community hospitals and affiliate hospitals, CCHS is the only health system in Northeast Ohio accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the nation’s largest accreditor of health care organizations.
All of our hospitals, outpatient clinics and home health care programs are also accredited by the JCAHO under its hospital accreditation program.
Cleveland Clinic Florida
The Cleveland Clinic has been in Florida since 1988. Today, the Clinic operates outstanding medical facilities in Florida that attract patients from all over the world.
In Weston, just 20 miles west of Ft. Lauderdale, a new integrated medical campus incorporates a 150-bed hospital, an outpatient clinic and education facilities.