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The X-ray file room after the fire. The Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit Ohio corporation, founded in 1921 by four physicians. On May 15, 1929, which was a Wednesday, the four-story Clinic building on Euclid Avenue was bustling with physicians, nurses, employees and patients, busy with the work of the Clinic's medical-surgical practice.
George Washington Crile, MD, one of the four founders. The Cleveland Clinic had its roots in the Lakeside Unit, [1] [2] an American First World War medical-surgical unit consisting of volunteers from Cleveland's Western Reserve University Lakeside Hospital, (now part of the University Hospitals medical system), organized and led by George W. Crile, MD the hospital's chief of surgery.
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute (LRI) conducts biomedical research in a 480,000-square-foot building that opened in 1999, [42] following a $16 million donation from Al and Norma Lerner in 1997, the largest single charitable donation made to the Cleveland Clinic up until that point. [43]
George Washington Crile (November 11, 1864 – January 7, 1943) was an American surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion. [1] He contributed to other procedures, such as neck dissection. Crile designed a small hemostatic forceps which bears his name; the Crile mosquito clamp.
Cleveland Clinic Children's (CCC) is a pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. The hospital has 389 pediatric beds [1] and is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Kent State University College ...
George Washington Crile (1910-1924 Chair of Surgery) [14] - Performed first blood transfusion. Established Lakeside Hospital, [14] and later co-founded Cleveland Clinic; Claude Beck (Surgery residency alum; 1924 -1971 Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery - first such position in US) [15] Performed first surgical treatment of coronary artery ...
Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland: Cuyahoga: 1290 [3] x 1921 – Cleveland Clinic Akron General: Akron: Summit: 485 [3] Level I 1915 Peoples Hospital Cleveland Clinic Akron General Lodi Hospital Lodi: Medina: 20 [3] x 1920 Lodi Sanitarium Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital Avon: Lorain: 126 [3] x 2016 [a] – Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for ...
The Cleveland Clinic established the school in 2002 with a $100 million gift from Norma and Al Lerner, [12] and CCLCM accepted its first class of students in 2004. [13] Physician researcher Eric Topol played an important role in securing the donation from the Lerner family. [ 14 ]