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CLEVELAND, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) will receive $12.7 million of the $122.6 million awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) this week for sustainable plans to improve care, lower costs and improve the overall health and wellness of children. UH Rainbow is among 26 other preliminary awardees announced today to receive a federal Health Care Innovation Award...
CLEVELAND, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Harrington Discovery Institute has announced a grant competition that serves as a nationwide search for physician-scientists seeking support to accelerate their promising drug discoveries into novel treatments for patients. The Harrington Scholar-Innovator grants will create a bold new pathway for these researchers, who are inspired by their patients, to discover and create novel therapies. Lacking...
PORTLAND, Ore., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals, an 11-hospital system in Ohio, has achieved clinical compliance and significantly improved audit performance by implementing ShiftWise Vendor Management System (VMS). By implementing ShiftWise VMS, University Hospitals accomplished two key goals: Provide a faster, more accurate and standardized credential verification process across a complex 11-hospital organization. Simplify the process of validating...
CLEVELAND, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, physician-scientists at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are studying a promising new non-invasive technology for colon cancer screening. The four-year study is recruiting patients to compare the effectiveness of stool DNA (SDNA) testing with colonoscopy for detecting large colon polyps. SDNA is a novel test...
CLEVELAND, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital is one of 34 children's hospitals in the country participating in a national effort to improve the quality of care and improve patient safety in pediatric hospitals in the form of a Hospital Engagement Network (HEN). The network officially launched on March 15, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, at a kick-off meeting that included CEOs, individual hospital board members, clinical leaders and others from all 34...
CLEVELAND, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center has announced a $250 million initiative that promises to dramatically change how drugs will advance from discovery in the laboratories to commercialization, resulting in greater access to advanced treatments and cures for patients. The first-of-its-kind initiative, named The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development, is powered by a $50 million gift - the largest donation in the health...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio is among 65 hospitals nationwide to be designated as a "Top Hospital" and leader in quality patient care by The Leapfrog Group. The annual "Top Hospital" designation, which is the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes hospitals that deliver the highest quality care by preventing medical errors, reducing mortality for high-risk procedures like...
CLEVELAND and GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Lentigen Corporation announced today the initiation of a novel Phase I clinical trial of LG631 gene therapy for the protection of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from the dose limiting toxicity of chemotherapy with Temodar. Approximately 17,000 Americans are diagnosed with glioblastoma every year and only two percent of them...
CLEVELAND, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is honored to announce gifts to establish the inaugural Parker Hannifin - Helen Moss Cancer Research Foundation Professorship in Integrative Oncology. This professorship will establish the School of Medicine and its affiliate hospitals as national leaders in teaching, research, and patient care in the field of integrative oncology. The gifts from The Parker Foundation and Helen Moss Cancer...
SHELTON, Connecticut, October 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- International medical imaging IT company, Sectra [http://www.sectra.com/medical ] (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: SECT B), announces the signing of a multi-year Master Research Agreement with University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland. UH and Sectra will collaborate to develop solutions and enhancements in medical imaging with the goals of improving patient care, delivering better healthcare at lower costs, and boosting the efficiency...
