Cleveland Clinic Breaks Ground for Health Center in East Cleveland
Huron Community Health Center Designed to Meet Patient Needs Through Integration of Clinical and Social Services
Thursday, June 3, 2010, Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic today broke ground for a community health center that will establish a new model of outpatient care that links healthcare with social and financial services.
The three-story, 50,000-square-foot Huron Community Health Center will be located along Euclid Avenue on the campus of Huron Hospital. The $25 million health center, scheduled to open in late 2011, is designed to reach beyond traditional healthcare services and link with community resources in one location to make it easier for patients and their families to access the healthcare, social and financial services they need. For more information click here.
Huron Community Health Center
Cleveland Clinic is proud to be investing in East Cleveland and breaking ground for the new HuronCommunityHealthCenter. Through this Center, we’re creating an easier way for patients to access preventive care and treatment for chronic diseases. The Center will provide patients with an innovative approach to addressing their healthcare needs. Click here for fact sheet.
The Kresge Foundation
Foundational to the creation of the unique model based at the Huron Community Health Center, Cleveland Clinic is proud to have the support of the Kresge Foundation. Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Public Health & Research, together with East Cleveland community partners, is one of twelve grantees from across the country selected to receive a $75,000 planning grant from the Kresge Foundation’s Safety Net Enhancement Initiative. This grant will be used for the development of the Social Health System Model, which aims to establish better connectivity across the public health, social services, behavioral health and physical health systems to address the social determinants of health.
Better Health, Greater Cleveland:
Anounced in 2008, Cleveland Clinic is proud to be an integral part of the Better Health, Greater Cleveland program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Against the backdrop of a national report highlighting dangerous deficiencies in the quality of U.S. health care, Cleveland was one of 14 communities selected as part of a $300 million initiative to spearhead health-quality reforms through regional collaboratives.
Known as Aligning Forces for Quality, RWJF’s initiative is the largest effort of its kind ever undertaken by a U.S. philanthropy. An unprecedented commitment of resources, expertise and training, it brings together patients, health care providers and payers to turn proven practices for improving quality into real results. It will lift the overall quality of health care, reduce racial disparities and provide models for national reform. See the report and find more information about Aligning Forces for Quality at www.rwjf.org/qualityequality.
According to the Dartmouth Atlas Project, one of the nation’s leading authorities on how health care is delivered in America, many communities do not receive the treatment they should get to help them stay healthy or effectively manage their chronic diseases. Most strikingly, Dartmouth researchers found significant differences by race and by region in whether patients lost a leg to amputation, an unfortunate complication of diabetes.
Nationwide, the Dartmouth Atlas Project documented that African Americans lost legs to amputations at a rate nearly five times that of whites – 4.17 per 1,000 African-American Medicare beneficiaries, compared to 0.88 per 1,000 white Medicare beneficiaries. Better Health Greater Cleveland’s Community Health Checkup, which reports how Northeast Ohio patients and physicians are doing at managing diabetes, reveals additional disparities in the region. The Community Health Checkup is published at betterhealthcleveland.org.
Cleveland Clinic is proud to be investing in East Cleveland and breaking ground for the new Huron Community Health Center. Through this Center, we’re creating an easier way for patients to access preventive care and treatment for chronic diseases. The Center will provide patients with an innovative approach to addressing their healthcare needs: Click here for fact sheet.