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Outstanding Organization
THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM
Cleveland
The MetroHealth Glick Center
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OUNDED IN 1837, The MetroHealth
System is a safety-net provider operating
five hospitals, four emergency
departments, and 20 health centers in
and around Cleveland. It serves more
than 300,000 patients and employs more than
8,000 doctors, nurses, and other staff members.
MetroHealth is also an academic medical center
in partnership with Case Western Reserve
University's School of Medicine and home to a
Level 1 trauma center as well as Ohio's only adult
and pediatric trauma and burn center.
In October 2022, MetroHealth completed
its replacement acute care hospital, The Glick
Center. The project serves as the anchor to a
$1 billion investment by the organization into
its main campus and the surrounding community,
an economically challenged, highly diverse
area on Cleveland's west side. In fact, it set into
motion a series of initiatives designed to support
MetroHealth's burgeoning mission to go beyond
healthcare to improve the health and lives of its
patients and community. That's meant supportSEP
TEMBER 2023
ing its neighbors in numerous ways, from creating
a new transit line with bus stops on its main
campus and other locations, providing health
and science curriculum in a high school located
inside the hospital, and building aff ordable housing
on-site for qualifi ed community members.
Meanwhile, as part of the construction of the
Glick Center, MetroHealth saw great opportunity
in the campus itself. Once the old hospital
is demolished, the site will boast significant
green space to further connect it to surrounding
neighbors and deliver much-needed parkland
to the dense, urban location. Inside the
new hospital, the city itself is refl ected via a robust
art program featuring local artists, a performance
area for theater and dance, and a color
palette inspired by murals and other public
art pieces in nearby neighborhoods to establish
a truly welcoming environment.
And to make sure this investment will serve
the community for years to come, MetroHealth
embraced the idea of fl exibility and adaptability
well beyond industry best practice, integrating a
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" process neutral " approach that utilizes universal
design throughout its 312 patient rooms as
well as the interventional platform, in addition
to modular, movable components throughout, to
ensure the hospital can change to suit caregivers'
needs day to day, and year to year.
Additionally, within the past year, the system
opened projects including a new facility for advanced
cellular immunotherapies that makes
MetroHealth the fi rst safety-net hospital in the
U.S. to bring such next-generation cancer treatments
to patients as well as the 112-bed MetroHealth
Cleveland Heights Behavioral Health
Hospital that consolidates services for adult, geriatric,
and adolescent patients and fi lls a critical
need for metal health care in that community.
These recent efforts, and many that have come
before them, showcase a health system that's
redefi ning itself through an evolution in the way
it delivers care and the spaces in which that care
takes place, serving the specifi c needs of its community
members and establishing the system as
a model for all. 
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