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Rob Lord is the president of the newlynamed
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health.
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Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital,
formerly Indian River Medical Center.
Wael Barsoum is president and CEO
of Cleveland Clinic Florida Region.
gional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce and St. Lucie
Medical Center in Port St. Lucie.
They are two of 14 hospitals in the HCA East Florida system,
which has its regional headquarters in Fort Lauderdale.
Lawnwood is the only Level II trauma center in the Treasure Coast,
says Landy Angelone, spokeswoman for the two HCA hospitals in
St. Lucie County.
Lawnwood has 380 beds. St. Lucie Medical Center has 229 beds.
The Cleveland Clinic, which has plans to double the number of
patients it serves to 4 million over the next five years, has taken its
expansion global. The 200-bed Cleveland Clinic London is expected
to open in early 2021, the Plain Dealer in Cleveland reported.
Its hospital in Abu Dhabi is growing 30 percent annually. v
will be extremely beneficial for Martin Health and Treasure Coast
residents.”
Cleveland Clinic also operates outpatient, rehab and diagnostic
locations from South Florida through the Treasure Coast.
The expansion means the Cleveland Clinic Florida region now
has five hospitals, including its foothold in the state, Cleveland
Clinic Florida in Weston, on the Everglades side of Broward
County. The president of the Weston hospital, Wael Barsoum, was
named president of the Florida region.
PIONEERING MEDICAL CENTER
Cleveland Clinic started in 1921 in Cleveland. It has pioneered
advances in medicine, including breakthroughs in coronary artery
bypass surgery and the first U.S. face transplant. Its flagship in
Cleveland serves patients from 185 countries.
Adding the employees working at the four Treasure Coast hospitals,
Cleveland Clinic has 66,000 caregivers globally, including
4,200 physicians and scientists, says Heather Phillips, Cleveland
Clinic spokeswoman.
It operates clinics and physician offices in much of Palm Beach
County but was unsuccessful last year when it tried to partner
with a 400-bed hospital in Boca Raton that would have given it
a link between Broward and the Treasure Coast hospitals. It was
one of two finalists to partner with Boca Raton Regional Hospital
but lost to Baptist Health Medical Group, based in Coral Gables in
Miami-Dade County.
A Cleveland Clinic spokeswoman declined to comment on the
group’s plans to add a hospital in Palm Beach County. In a statement
issued last year, Cleveland Clinic said coming in second in
Boca Raton was a “disappointment.”
HCA Healthcare, the largest hospital group in the United States,
owns two major hospitals in St. Lucie County — Lawnwood Re
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