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Dr. Yitz Glick works in the Cleveland Clinic emergency room part of the time, but his heart is in Israel full time. That's why the 42-year-old Kaiser Permanente physician flies [...]

After transforming from a hospital to a community center that encompasses health care clinics, nonprofit organization offices and college classrooms, Lorain's St. Joseph Community Center is making a push to [...]

MetroHealth Medical Center's satellite clinic in the Lee Harvard Shopping Center is doing so well officials are thinking of trying to duplicate that effort at other East Side retail locations. [...]

The flap doctors made this year over high medical malpractice insurance rates certainly has grabbed the attention of Ohio lawmakers, who are grappling with no less than eight pieces of [...]

Byline: Ruthann Robinson Steven Altman remembers sweeping Youngstown parking lots for his father's cleaning business as soon as he was old enough to push a broom - and for nearly [...]

Mexican-American Marc Sanchez was a National Merit Hispanic Scholarship recipient who in college participated in the Volunteers in Parole Program, where he counseled juvenile delinquents. For the past nine years, [...]

To life! When Susan Berger, director of development and community relations at the Positive Education Program of Cleveland, got married in October to Bob Brown, they used the Jewish phrase [...]

Lillian Kuri loves living and working in Ohio City. Ms. Kuri is executive director of Cleveland Public Art, a nonprofit organization dedicated to involving the public in the process of [...]

Perhaps the first indication Michael Headen was going places was when he beat out scores of other dreamers to become the Cleveland Indians batboy for the 1980 and 1981 seasons. [...]

Laura Steinbrink is a political partisan who values a range of opinions, a campaigner who thinks government and politics are resistant to change, and a leader whose goal is to [...]

Inquiries about whether West Side Ecumenical Ministry's newly refurbished Reinberger Auditorium could be rented have spurred officials to see it as an untapped revenue source that could bring up to [...]

Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp. of Stow plans to construct a two-story building of between 10,000 and 15,000 square feet at its Hudson Drive campus to house offices, a repair lab [...]

Byline: RUTHANN ROBINSON Cuyahoga Community College wants not only to purvey knowledge, but also to harness and manage it. Armed with a $150,000 grant and resource support from Ernst & [...]

KeyCorp is ratcheting up its commitment to the art of inclusion by creating a corporate diversity department based in Cleveland. The financial services company last week launched the department with [...]

Nearly $11 million in new grants and institutional investments are flowing into Cleveland's research community to buy nuclear and biological magnetic imaging equipment that experts here say potentially could turn [...]

Recognizing the toll that terrible events such as the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Washington, D.C., sniper killings take on individuals and communities, Kent State University and Summa [...]

When Huntington Willard, president and director of the Research Institute at University Hospitals of Cleveland, leaves for Duke University next year, his departure will not go unnoticed - nor will [...]

DDR DEAL CARRIES BIG BREAKUP COST Developers Diversified Realty Corp.'s pending $1 billion deal to buy JDN Realty Corp. of Atlanta carries some big costs and major efforts for the [...]

More than 150 civic, health care and nonprofit organization leaders will meet this Tuesday, Oct. 22, to hear about the Cleveland Foundation's three-year, $4 million plan to make Cleveland an [...]

St. John West Shore Hospital this Friday, Oct. 25, will break ground on a $6 million, 14,000-square-foot emergency department. Expected to be completed in spring 2004, the new emergency department [...]

Grant money to buy small animal imaging equipment is beginning to flow into Cleveland and could launch the area to the forefront of biomedical research. The National Institutes of Health [...]

Summit County's Summa Health System and Akron General Medical Center have begun using an automated, voice-based system known as VoiCert that they expect will give them a quicker, more accurate [...]

Byline: RUTHANN ROBINSON A new Westlake company is building a business around helping Americans save money on prescription medications purchased via the Internet from Canada. No Borders USA Inc. went [...]

After a three-year absence, University Hospitals Health System has rejoined the Center for Health Affairs, a hospital advocacy group. The return of the eight-hospital UH system, as well as St. [...]

The Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland isn't resting on its laurels after spending the last two years integrating three disparate computer systems into one to handle clinical and financial data. [...]

The 18-year-old Women's Community Foundation has come of age and is set to continue serving Cleveland women with a new board, bigger staff and refocused grantmaking and fund-raising goals. The [...]

Every new, glass-enclosed private patient room in the renovated pediatric intensive care unit at Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital will have a shower and sleep accommodations for family members, but [...]

Come next spring, Northeast Ohio residents in search of natural health solutions can look for answers at Trillium Creek, a $10 million dermatology, skin care and integrative medical center going [...]

Karen Talbott, president of Akron's Visiting Nurse Service & Affiliates, was a candidate for a master's in accounting degree studying in the library at Kent State University when National Guardsmen [...]

Patricia Ruflin is the kind of person people trust. They range from her daughter-in-law, who trusted Mrs. Ruflin enough to help deliver her child, to her bosses at Parma Community [...]

Fred Anthony, the former president and CEO of Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital has a new job as president of Buckingham Healthcare Solutions LLC, a consulting offshoot of the Akron law [...]

They're bursting at the seams. The Gathering Place - a nonprofit organization providing free art therapy, Reiki massage and other complementary care for cancer patients and their families - has [...]

Ultrasounds in 3-D. That's the technology University Hospitals of Cleveland's radiology department will unveil to the public come Sept. 26 when it opens its new, $1.2 million 3-D ultrasound suite. [...]

Byline: RUTHANN ROBINSON Reports of patient abuse and substandard care at nursing homes may cause some to throw up their hands in frustration, but registered nurse Georgie Washington is doing [...]

As a crisis counselor for several local and national employee assistance programs, Debbie Hershfield of Akron was busier than ever helping people suffering from the initial trauma of Sept. 11. [...]

With a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant in hand, the newly established Social Work Research Development Program at Case Western Reserve University last week moved into its new digs in [...]

The renovation of 44,000 square feet at the Cleveland Clinic Beachwood Family Health Center on Cedar Road will wrap up in November with an expansion of the ambulatory surgery center [...]

OK, the surgical gloves are off. This time, the doctors mean business. The Academy of Medicine/Northeast Ohio Medical Association is spending $60,000 on two television ads that will tout what [...]

Cleveland Browns head coach Butch Davis hopes this is the season when everyone in Northeast Ohio - not just diehard football fans - will be glued to the TV set [...]

Members of the Kent State University Foundation's strategic planning committee will meet in September to decide how to capitalize on the momentum generated by the university's first $100 million fund-raising [...]

Jackie and Ken Fisher's dream for their son will come true next summer. After working hard to make sure their fourth child, Preston, lived past age 2 when doctors said [...]

There's a building boom in Garfield Heights benefiting senior citizens. Late this fall, the Jennings Center for Older Adults will open a $10 million, 82,000-square-foot assisted-living and wellness center adjacent [...]

Although still in its infancy after opening in a medical office building in June, Geauga County's Das Deutsch Center for Special Needs Children last week took its first steps toward [...]

The Urban League of Greater Cleveland is realizing the American dream of homeownership. When the deal closes this fall on the purchase of an 18,000-square-foot, two-story brick edifice at 2930 [...]

When employees of Associated Estates Realty Corp. head to the Mill Creek Falls Historic Center in Slavic Village next month to build a gazebo and install a fountain, they'll have [...]

Because falls are a serious health problem among older adults - with national treatment costs topping $20 billion annually - Menorah Park is spending $70,000 for a space-age machine that [...]

Next year, low-income senior citizens in Summit County's city of Green finally will have a place to call home. Green's Mayor Dan Croghan fulfilled a 1999 campaign promise last week [...]

Nonprofit organizations in the Cleveland area have a new ally. Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs has established the Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice to [...]

Recently tallied numbers for the 2002 Harvest for Hunger fund-raising campaign proved that planners were right to create a media consortium to deliver a controlled message focusing on cash donations. [...]

Charter One Bank, which is trying to fend off accusations of discriminatory lending practices levied by the Rev. Al Sharpton and groups he runs, is about to outline to its [...]