** Cleveland Clinic in Florida **
As an academic medical center, our goal is to provide the most innovative diagnostic and treatment options to our patients. Physicians at Cleveland Clinic in Florida are experts in the treatment of complex conditions that are difficult to diagnose. We continuously strive to provide quality care, and an outstanding patient experience.
Conveniently located in Weston and West Palm Beach, Florida, Cleveland Clinic in Florida is a not-for-profit, multi-specialty group practice that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Cleveland Clinic in Florida has over 150 physicians with expertise in 35 specialties. The medical campus in Weston is fully integrated and includes diagnostic centers, outpatient surgery, and a 24-hour emergency department located in the state-of-the-art hospital, which was named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® in cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters in 2008.
Cleveland Clinic in Florida was 1 out of only 5 hospitals in the nation recognized by the American Heart Association for the highest level of performance in all three categories of the Get with the Guidelines program: Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Failure & Stroke. Cleveland Clinic in Florida is an integral part of Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where providing outstanding patient care is based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation.
** About Us **
For over 75 years, The Cleveland Clinic has been committed to the improvements in patient care, enhancements in medical education and breakthroughs in medical research. The tradition continues here in the Southeast with Cleveland Clinic Florida.
Established in 1988, Cleveland Clinic Florida is a not-for-profit, multispecialty group practice dedicated to providing outstanding, state-of-the-art medical care. Continuing the world-renowned tradition of The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Florida physicians excel at the diagnosis and treatment of medical problems that are complex or difficult to treat.
Cleveland Clinic Florida physicians are carefully selected for their credentials and training. All have Florida licenses and are board certified or board eligible in one or more specialties. They are salaried and receive no compensation for the number of patients they see or tests they order.
Cleveland Clinic Florida physicians focus on treating the patient, not just the disease. Working together, they provide comprehensive diagnoses and coordinated treatment. Proximity of offices and examination rooms, collegial collaboration and strict peer review, ensure high-quality, cost-effective and well-coordinated care – a tremendous advantage to patients who require the services of more than one physician. This care and concern is supported by state-of-the-art technology and dynamic research and medical education programs. For these reasons, patients travel to Cleveland Clinic Florida from all over the United States and many foreign countries.
** General Information **
Cleveland Clinic in Florida is an integral part of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, a not-for-profit, multi-specialty referral group practice, renowned worldwide for providing outstanding medical excellence with an emphasis on research and education. Cleveland Clinic has 120 physicians with expertise in approximately 35 specialties and a 150-bed hospital.
Cleveland Clinic in Florida physicians are carefully selected for their credentials and training. All have Florida licenses and are board certified or board eligible in one or more specialties. They are salaried and receive no compensation for the number of patients they see or tests they order.
History Of Cleveland Clinic Florida
* 1990s *
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeons develop
way to repair rather than replace damaged heart
valves
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation neurosurgeons develop
sonic wand to pinpoint brain tumors during surgery
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation opens Gamma Knife
Center for non-surgical treatment of brain tumors
and other brain lesions
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation neurologists begin
clinical trials on first drug proven effecting in
slowing multiple sclerosis
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation ophthalmologists use
clot-buster drug to treat macular degeneration
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeons begin
ventricular remodeling, an innovative surgery for
congestive heart failure
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeons perform
their 500th heart transplant
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation urologists perform
their 2,000th kidney transplant
* Cleveland Clinic Florida opens first public-access
medical library in Broward County
* Cleveland Clinic Florida given national
accreditation as sponsor of continuing medical
education courses
* Cleveland Clinic Florida physicians begin
participation in hundreds of national clinical
research trials for all types of diseases
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation residents begin
training at Cleveland Clinic Florida
* Cleveland Clinic Florida establishes a basic
science research laboratory
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeon pioneers
minimally invasive aortic valve and coronary bypass
surgery
* 1980s *
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeon develops
computerized device to monitor and treat changes in
blood pressure after heart surgery, thus lowering
post-operative complications
* Cleveland Clinic Florida opens as first not-for-
profit, multi-specialty group practice in Broward
County
* Cleveland Clinic Florida establishes an
Institutional Review Board to monitor the ethical
and scientific aspects of clinical research
projects
* Cleveland Clinic Florida begins training colorectal
surgery residents in Florida’s first program and
the first accredited specialty training program of
any kind in Broward County
* 1970s *
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation neurosurgeons develop
brain mapping to locate and remove site of seizures
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeons pioneers
use of internal thoracic artery for longer-lasting
bypass surgery
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart specialists
establish world’s first computer database to help
evaluate effective treatments for heart disease
* 1960s *
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation heart surgeons pioneer
coronary bypass surgery using a vein from the leg
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation urologists perform
first successful kidney transplants
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation researcher invents
dialysis machine
* 1930s *
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation surgeons develop
pneumatic splint for fractures and inflatable suit
to maintain blood pressure, now used by astronauts
with heart disease during cardiac catheterization
* The Cleveland Clinic researcher refines heart-lung
machine, allowing team to perform surgery on a
stopped heart
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation surgeons develop
effective alternatives to radical mastectomy and
new techniques to prevent spread of colon cancer
during surgery
* Cleveland Clinic Foundation researcher determines
role of dietary cholesterol in heart disease and
creates first diet to lower blood cholesterol
levels
