The Cleveland Clinic has promoted Rebecca Starck, MD, as president of the new Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital.
The new facility is currently being built onto the north side of the existing Richard E. Jacobs Health Center. The five-story, 221,500-square-foot addition is estimated at $143 million and is scheduled to open in 2016.
Dr. Starck will be responsible for leading the planning and strategic direction of the new Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital and focusing on the facility's goals of operating more efficiently, introducing new and advanced technology, reducing duplication, keeping costs down and improving overall quality.
Dr. Starck began practicing at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland in 1999. Under her leadership, Cleveland Clinic's Avon Women's Health Association was established in 2005. In 2010, she was appointed to the Cleveland Clinic staff in the Ob/Gyn & Women's Health Institute.
Earlier this year, Dr. Starck was named an associate medical director on Cleveland Clinic's regional administrative team. Previously, she served as a trustee on the Fairview and Lutheran Hospital Boards and as a member of the board of trustees for the Community Physician Partnership. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the Cleveland Obstetrical Society.