Cleveland Clinic’s Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Transitions to New Advanced Payment Model

Cleveland Clinic’s Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) has transitioned to a new payment model introduced this year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that can reduce healthcare costs by increasing the health system’s opportunities for performance-based savings. Under the new model, Cleveland Clinic Medicare ACO, which manages a population of 105,000 beneficiaries, will assume … Read More

Cleveland Clinic Partners with Martin Health System for First Cardiovascular Affiliation in Florida

CLEVELAND, Ohio, and STUART, Fla. – Cleveland Clinic and Martin Health System announced an affiliation agreement to share best practices in cardiology and heart surgery, optimize superior patient-centered care, and develop programs to improve quality, safety and outcomes. The cardiac programs at Cleveland Clinic’s Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute and the Frances … Read More

Cleveland Clinic Researchers Find New Gene Variant Linked to Deadly Prostate Cancer

Cleveland Clinic researchers have confirmed for the first time a mechanistic link between the gene HSD17B4 and deadly, treatment-resistant prostate cancer. The research, led by Nima Sharifi, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Department of Cancer Biology, shows that men who lack a certain subtype of the gene may be more susceptible to aggressive prostate … Read More

New Research Aims to Improve the Lives of Children with High Grade Glioma

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded a $100,000 Josh Metzger Memorial Fox Trot Grant sponsored by the Prayers From Maria Foundation, in support of pediatric neurosurgical oncology research. Violette Recinos, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgical oncology at the Cleveland Clinic, and her team will use the … Read More

Cleveland Clinic Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Shared Decision-Making for Prenatal Genetic Screening

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Cleveland Clinic a research grant to study how to help patients and healthcare providers have informative and meaningful discussions about the use of new prenatal genetic tests. Ruth Farrell, M.D., MA, OB/GYN and Vice Chair of Clinical Research for Cleveland Clinic’s  Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health Institute, was … Read More

Cosgrove Transformation Campaign Raises Over $50 Million for Innovation, Research, Education, Patient Experience

  Donors have raised over $50 million for “The Cosgrove Transformation Campaign,” which was established to honor the career and legacy of Toby Cosgrove, M.D., the out-going CEO and president of Cleveland Clinic. Robert E. Rich Jr, chair of the Cleveland Clinic’s Board of Directors, made the announcement at a special event Saturday night that … Read More

Darrell Cass, M.D., Named Cleveland Clinic Director of Fetal Surgery   

Cleveland Clinic has appointed Darrell Cass, M.D., as director of fetal surgery. In this role, Dr. Cass will lead a multidisciplinary team specialized in treating highly complex cases of birth defects, such as spina bifida, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), sacrococcygeal teratoma, and other treatable fetal conditions. “Fetal surgery is highly complex … Read More

Cleveland Clinic’s Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., Recognized as 2017 Distinguished Scientist by The American Heart Association

Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine in the Lerner Research Institute and section head of Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation in the Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic, has been named by the American Heart Association (AHA) a Distinguished Scientist for 2017. According to the AHA, the Distinguished Scientist … Read More