Our Community. Our Calling
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Our Community. Our Calling. 2016 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY AND REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY DEAR FRIENDS, Throughout University Hospitals’ 150-year history, all that we do has been guided by the inspiration of our founders, who felt called to share their own good fortune by providing vital health care services for the needs of our community. Others have generously followed their example. And the result today is a health system delivering care close to home for the people of Northeast Ohio and an academic medical center renowned for advanced procedures and treatment options, groundbreaking clinical research and education for our next generation of clinicians. Without a doubt, University Hospitals is the hometown health care provider for this proud region. We’re honored to be such an integral part of this community’s history, and we keep moving forward to meet evolving needs – today, and for years to come. More than 30,000 UH physicians, nurses, employees and volunteers serve more than 1 million patients and families from Ashtabula to Ashland to Amherst. We offer the region’s largest network of primary care providers, a dozen community hospitals, two rehabilitation hospitals and more than 40 community health centers featuring nearby care and services. And like the region we serve, UH has Cleveland as its heart. During our 150th anniversary year in 2016, our main campus in Cleveland took on a new name: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. The campus includes our medical and surgical hospital, UH Seidman Cancer Center, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and UH MacDonald Women’s Hospital. This world- class academic medical center comprises the core of Ohio’s largest center of biomedical research, and is the training ground for 1,000 physicians and thousands of other health care professionals each year. UH is also doing what our proud region has always done: exporting our innovation to serve the world. We’re developing new and reproducible models for improving care quality, value and patient experience. We’re partnering with biotech giants to discover and advance breakthroughs. Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio – part of The Harrington Project for Discovery & Development – is providing unparalleled support to physician-scientists across America and overseas as they transform clinical insights into new therapies. Our academic medical center’s rebranding in 2016 also heralds an evolution of our 120-year affiliation with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. This redefined relationship between the medical school and UH Cleveland Medical Center provides more flexibility to bring new resources to bear as we face health care’s challenges, changes and opportunities ahead. We recognize that our region thrives when its heart beats strongly. So, we’re investing resources into Cleveland’s core neighborhoods. A showcase of this effort is our 150th anniversary commitment to this community, the UH Rainbow Center for Women & Children. We held a celebratory groundbreaking for this revolutionary service center in MidTown in 2016. When it opens in 2018, it will offer health care and much more. Innovative collaborations will provide those we serve with work-readiness training, nutrition courses and exercise classes – all at a welcoming place that will be easily accessible by public transit. And because no one knows what these neighborhoods need more than the residents who live there, we invited them to help us shape the center and its offerings. We will remember 2016 as our 150th year of service for the people of Northeast Ohio. We honor our community by honoring our core UH values: Excellence, Diversity, Compassion, Integrity and Teamwork. And with our community, we rise in pursuit of our mission: TO HEAL. TO TEACH. TO DISCOVER. Sincerely, THOMAS F. ZENTY III SANDRA PIANALTO CEO, University Hospitals Chair, UH Board of Directors 2 | UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS • UHhospitals.org 4 Cancer Superhero | 6 Change of Heart | 7 UH Surgery Chief Q & A | 8 Fighting Trauma | 9 UH OB Network | 10 Patient Satisfaction 11 UH Rainbow Pediatric Care | 12 Community Psychiatry | 13 Joint Replacement Centers of Excellence | 14 UH Rainbow NICU 16 UH Spine Center | 17 Zocdoc Success | 18 Minimally Invasive TAVR | 19 iPad Stroke Assessment | 20 Moonshot Initiative | 21 HDI Research Leader 22-23 Innovator Spotlights | 24 2016 Highlights | 25 Financials | 26 UH Report on Philanthropy and Campaign Giving | 28 Our Donors 67 Leadership | 68 University Hospitals System AR2016.UHHOSPITALS.ORG 1-866-UH4-CARE (1-866-844-2273) • UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | 3 CLINICAL TRIAL REVEALS MODERN-DAY SUPERHERO 4 | UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS • UHhospitals.org Every patient needs hope to get through the day, and Andy is living proof that a fighting spirit can lead “to a winning outcome. He’s a real-life superhero. – CHRISTOPHER MURPHY, RN” The iconic comic book hero Superman was created by Clevelanders Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1933. Today, a modern-day superhero is Andy Simon, a 52-year-old brain cancer survivor from Beachwood, who ran a five-mile race following his first radiation treatment, pushed through chemotherapy treatments to celebrate his daughter’s college graduation and his son’s wedding, and then donned a superhero’s cape to give hope to children fighting their own battles with cancer. Andy, diagnosed with malignant glioblastoma, enrolled in CLINICAL TRIAL REVEALS MODERN-DAY a clinical trial at UH Seidman Cancer Center. Neurosurgeon Andrew Sloan, MD*, used an experimental agent and a modified surgical microscope to help identify and remove not only the main tumor mass, but also the microscopic cells infiltrating Andy’s brain. Dr. Sloan then enrolled Andy in another trial that uses a genetically engineered gene to protect the body from the side effects of chemotherapy SUPERHERO and support more aggressive treatment. In superhero fashion, Andy has returned to work at a wholesale food distributor, hoisting 100-pound corned beef barrels. He is an inspiration to other patients and staff, said Christopher Murphy, RN, the clinical trial nurse who guided him through months of complicated chemotherapy. *Andrew Sloan, MD, Director, Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, UH Cleveland Medical Center; Peter D. Cristal Chair in Neurosurgery; Professor, Neurological Surgery and Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1-866-UH4-CARE (1-866-844-2273) • UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | 5 CHANGE OF Heart IS A GAME CHANGER At the age of 68, Larry Sekula had been through I would entrust UH with my heart transplant,” a decade of heart issues. The Erie, Pa., father and said Larry. “Without hesitation, I said yes.” grandfather tried nearly everything because he On June 26, 2016, Larry received what he calls had everything to live for. His life-extending care a miracle. An organ donor had given him the included an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), most precious gift – a heart and a new chance a smarter device than a pacemaker. ICDs initially send for life. The 12-hour surgery was performed by low-energy pulses to restore heart rhythm, and Soon J. Park, MD2, Division Chief of Cardiac switch to high-energy pulses when the low-energy Surgery, UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, shocks are ineffective. and Basar Sareyyupoglu, MD3, a UH cardiac Then in April 2016, Larry suffered a stroke, and surgeon specializing in heart and lung transplantation. his best hope was a MedEvac helicopter flight to Within two months of discharge, Larry was back UH Cleveland Medical Center, where he was placed at home with family and on the links, golfing on the heart transplant list. with friends. Michael Zacharias, DO1, a cardiologist with Larry’s advice to others facing serious health issues: University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular “Stay strong, believe in yourself and place your Institute who specializes in heart failure, was one trust in UH.” of Larry’s key physicians. “Dr. Zacharias asked if From left: Basar Sareyyupoglu, MD; Michael Zacharias, DO; and Larry Sekula 1Michael Zacharias, DO, UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute; Assistant Professor, Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2Soon J. Park, MD, Division Chief, Cardiac Surgery, Co-Chair, Clinical Executive Committee, UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute; Jay C. Ankeney, MD, Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery; Professor, Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 3Basar Sareyyupoglu, MD, UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute 6 | UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS • UHhospitals.org Q& A Joseph Sabik, MD*, joined University Hospitals late in 2016 as Chair of the Department of Surgery at UH Cleveland Medical Center and Surgeon-in-Chief for the UH system. He is a world- renowned heart surgeon and a Clevelander since 1993. “Cleveland is on the rise, and it’s a medical capital – a global destination for both patients and talent,” Dr. Sabik said. “We have all of the advantages of the biggest cities – yet everything is easy to navigate.” Welcome to UH. What attracted you? “I had been watching the way University Hospitals had been growing over the past several years, and I was really impressed. I saw the way UH has invested here. It was very clear to me that Northeast Ohio is UH’s home. UH wants to be here. UH wants to take care of the people in this community. The establishment of the Level I trauma center (at UH Cleveland Medical Center) was an amazing demonstration of that level of commitment. And there is still an incredible opportunity to grow at UH. It’s very exciting.” You have two titles: Chairman of Surgery at UH Cleveland Medical Center and Surgeon-in-Chief for UH. Can you explain? “UH Cleveland Medical Center is our academic medical center, where we take care of people in the community who need that highest level of care: Level I trauma, intensive care and critical-care surgery. In that role, what I really am is an advocate; my job is to help my surgeons take the best care of their patients as possible by working with the hospital to make it happen.