Cleveland Clinic is one of four healthcare institutions taking part in an unprecedented collaboration with the City of Cleveland to address public health and offer wellness programs to the city, according to a Plain Dealer report.
“Healthy Cleveland” includes the following resolutions, among others:
• smoking cessation efforts, including more restrictions on where people can smoke;
• encouraging local restaurants to remove trans-fat items from menus;
• and removing sugar-based drinks and trans-fat foods out of machines in city-owned buildings.
The other three Cleveland providers taking part in the collaboration are University Hospitals-Case Medical Center, MetroHealth and the Sisters of Charity Health System.
Cleveland Clinic’s CEO, Delos “Toby” Cosgrove said major factors such as inactivity, obesity and smoking contribute to chronic disease in the city. “We’ve done a lot within our own four walls, but it needs to be led on a citywide basis, and we needed a buy-in from the mayor,” Mr. Cosgrove said, according to the report.
In other news, Cleveland Clinic is celebrating its 90th anniversary today. The health system started off with 13 physicians and now, with 2,800, is the world’s second-largest group practice.
Read the Plain Dealer report on Cleveland Clinic and “Healthy Cleveland.”
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– Cleveland Clinic CEO Credited With Idea of City’s New Medical Mart
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