When choosing a family health center, you want the best for yourself and your family. At our family health centers, you’ll have access to some of the top doctors and medical resources in the world. Cleveland Clinic is amongst the best hospitals in the world. Here are a few facts about Cleveland Clinic so that you’ll know you’re choosing the best family health center for your needs.
America’s Top Doctors
74 Cleveland Clinic physicians are named in the 2004 edition of America’s Top Doctors. The Clinic is one of the top-mentioned hospitals in the directory, and this expertise is available at our family health centers.
Best Doctors
195 Cleveland Clinic physicians are named in Best Doctors, a survey of physicians located throughout the United States.
Top 100 Hospitals
The Cleveland Clinic is a seven-time winner of Solucient's national benchmark survey that recognizes medical and operational excellence (2003).
National Research Corp.
Cleveland Clinic is a 2004/2005 Consumer Choice Award winner (National Research Corporation), selected by consumers in Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown for providing quality health care services. Many of these same services are available at our family health centers.
JCAHO
The Cleveland Clinic and its health system hospitals received the prestigious Ernest A. Codman Award for demonstrating successful use of data for and improving care for congestive heart failure patients (2001) and stroke patients (2003). This award is the highest honor of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). The Cleveland Clinic also is a JCAHO-accredited hospital.
Magnet Status
In June 2003, Cleveland Clinic nurses were awarded Magnet Status, the nation’s highest recognition for nursing excellence, by the American Nurses Credentialing Committee (ANCC), an arm of the American Nurses Association. Only 1 percent of the nation’s more than 6,000 hospitals have earned this distinction. Over a 10-year period, the ANCC collected data demonstrating that patient outcomes are better at hospitals where nurses work within the framework of excellence that Magnet represents.
