Topic: NE Ohio: University Hospitals Developments (Non - University Circle)

[J. Dub]

I didn't see this posted anywhere else; from the Akron Beacon Journal 5/4/2006


Beachwood hospital planned
University Hospitals to build 200-bed facility near Interstate 271
By Cheryl Powell
Beacon Journal medical writer


University Hospitals of Cleveland is setting its sights south to upscale suburbs in northern Summit and southern Cuyahoga counties with construction of a new, 200-bed hospital in Beachwood.

University Hospitals Health System announced plans on Wednesday to build the new hospital as part of a $225 million construction project near the intersection of Interstate 271 and Harvard Road.



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Cheryl Powell can be reached at 330-996-3902 or chpowell@thebeaconjournal.com
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/14497239.htm

[Scav]

whelp... if they can afford it...

its kinda suburban i guess and im not a fan of that... but if its for business.

sounds good though, we will take new construction any day!

[CH Jake]

Seems like we ought to extend some rail lines out to the new UH complex and the Progressive campuses.

[Ctownrocks1]

University Hospitals officials and Ohio Sen. Tim Grendell expect to break ground Wednesday afternoon for a $27 million medical center on Auburn Road off state Route 44 in Concord Township.

The 600,000-square-foot center is expected to offer urgent care services, primary care services for adults and children, and physician specialty services, such as orthopedics and cardiology. Laboratory, radiology, cardiac testing and surgical facilities also are planned for UH Concord Health Center, set for a summer 2009 completion.

http://www.cleveland.com/medical/index.ssf/2008/06/uh_concord_medical_center.html
http://blog.cleveland.com/medical/2008/06/large_concord.jpg

[jam40jeff]

More catering to the "freeway crowd".  I think they could have put half the money into the current facility in downtown Painesville and had a nice building in a more sensible location (in the heart of the only city in Lake County with a downtown).

[Eparabola]

They're already clearing land for the med center at Harvard/271.  Looks like it'll be huge.

[jonmoxon]

More catering to the "freeway crowd".  I think they could have put half the money into the current facility in downtown Painesville and had a nice building in a more sensible location (in the heart of the only city in Lake County with a downtown).

^I agree they should've reinvested in the current location, but Willoughby has a nice little downtown, too (albeit not as large as P-ville's)

They're already clearing land for the med center at Harvard/271.  Looks like it'll be huge.

Oh yeah, it's supposed to have 220-230 some beds. It's going to be a full-service hospital built from scratch.

[jam40jeff]

I agree they should've reinvested in the current location, but Willoughby has a nice little downtown, too (albeit not as large as P-ville's)

I suppose you're right on that.  Painesville just feels more like a downtown I guess because it has much larger buildings and takes up a bigger area, but a lot of that comes from being the county seat.

Along those lines, I guess you could say Madison has a downtown as well (and maybe even Mentor at 615 and Mentor, even though most people that live in Mentor probably have no idea the center of town isn't the Great Lakes Mall).

[Ipsilon]

Mentor and 615 (Center Street) used to be the downtown area maybe 50 years ago, but I lived there for almost 20 years and that intersection, while still relatively busy, is a mere shadow of what I think it was when my parents were young.

[jonmoxon]

When Lake County was being discussed as a home for the Captains, I was really pulling for a site in d-town Willoughby (all the new restaurants and bars) or d-town Painesville. I know Eastlake stepped up and financed their park, but man, could they have picked a worse location? Zero spin-off development and the park itself has zero ambiance. What a missed opportunity.

Same deal with the Niles ballpark (Mahoning Valley Scrappers).

[jam40jeff]

^^No doubt, as is pretty much anything older in Mentor.  The strip of older stores (I'm guessing 40s or 50s) on Mentor Avenue out by Little Mountain Rd. is pretty much completely empty now.  I remember going to a neat little hardware store there when I was little (lived in Mentor from birth to 12 years old).

Also, I attended Center Street Elementary for a short time.  It's funny to see it being converted into condos now.  This definitely has to be the furthest out Progressive Urban Real Estate has ventured.

^Yeah, that location is abysmal.  I remember how they were touting how spin-off would occur on Vine Street.  Sure hasn't happened.  Downtown Willoughby would have been perfect (maybe just north of 20).

Anyways, back to the Hospital I suppose, before we get yelled at...

[StrapHanger]

Oh yeah, it's supposed to have 220-230 some beds. It's going to be a full-service hospital built from scratch.

These new hospitals are just another example of the social cost of sprawl: how many hospitals have been closed in the City of Cleveland in recent years?

[gotribe]

Deacones closed obviously about 2 or 3 years ago as did St. Alexsis I believe on Broadway.  The only other ones I can think of in the city opewn are CCF, Luthern and Fairview.  I'm probably missing a bunch though. 

[jonmoxon]

Oh yeah, it's supposed to have 220-230 some beds. It's going to be a full-service hospital built from scratch.

These new hospitals are just another example of the social cost of sprawl: how many hospitals have been closed in the City of Cleveland in recent years?

    My best friend is a financial analyst at the Clinic and we had this conversation on the way back from DC a few months' back; we were passing through Twinsburg on 480 and I remarked how the Clinic and UH were just leapfrogging each other out to the burbs and beyond, and how shortsighted all this expansion could be in a few years when fuel prices are higher than they are now and our economy tightens up with them. He didn't disagree. What he told me in their defense, however, was that one obviously couldn't let the other take the burbs all to themselves and lose all that potential 'profit' (being that they are non-profits)...mainly because the burbs have what every hospital in America covets: customers with private health insurance. He cited Geauga Hospital as being the most profitable (or one of the most) in NEO for that very reason.
     I also expressed concern that the Clinic and UH may be harming their flagship campuses by siphoning patients to all these new suburban facilites, thus marginilizing the investments they've made and continue to make in UC. He wasn't very concerned, being that all the specialties and a lot of the surgical procedures as well as R&D were still concentrated there. Basically, they've invested so much $ in UC that they won't willfully do anything to harm their respective flagships.
   

[jonmoxon]

Deacones closed obviously about 2 or 3 years ago as did St. Alexsis I believe on Broadway.  The only other ones I can think of in the city opewn are CCF, Luthern and Fairview.  I'm probably missing a bunch though. 

You've also got Metro, St. Vincent's and Huron (E. Cleveland?)

others that have closed:

St. Luke (Shaker-Buckeye)
St. Micheal  (Broadway)
St. John Westshore/St. augustine on Lake ave (now a senior care facility, I believe)

[buckeye1]

Closed Cleveland area hospitals:

Bay View Hospital, Bay Village (Dr Sam Sheppard’s hospital) – closed 1980, moved to Westlake as Saint John West Shore Hospital, site now condominiums

Booth Memorial Hospital, East Cleveland – closed 1992, merged with Metro system

Cleveland State Hospital (psychiatric), Warner Rd – closed 1972, now site of Zaremba’s MillCreek development

Deaconess Hospital, Pearl Rd – closed 2005, now part of MetroHealth

Doctors’ Hospital, Cedar Hill – closed 1968, moved to Hillcrest Hospital, Mayfield Hts.

Fairhill Psychiatric Hospital  - closed 1983, now UH Fairhill Center for Aging

Forest City Hospital, Glenville – closed 1978

Glenbeigh Hospital, Puritas – relocated to Rock Creek, Ohio in 1995

Kaiser Hospital, MLK at Fairhill – closed 1986

Kaiser Hospital, Parma – closed 1993, now outpatient services only

Mount Sinai, University Circle, closed 1998

Polyclinic Hospital, Carnegie Ave at East 66th – closed 1978, now Cityview nursing home

Saint Alexis/Saint Michael, Broadway, closed 2003

Saint Ann’s, MLK Blvd – closed 1973, sold to Kaiser Permanente

Saint John, Detroit Rd  - closed 1990, services transferred to Saint John West Shore, Westlake

Saint Luke, Shaker Blvd – closed 2000, services transferred to Saint Vincent Charity

Shaker Medical Center Hospital, Shaker Blvd – purchased by Saint Luke, 1984

Windsor Hospital (psychiatric), Chagrin Falls – closed 2007

Woman’s General, East 101st and Chester – closed 1984, now Cleveland Sight Center

Woodruff Hospital (psychiatric), East 89th and Euclid – closed 1986, site now CCF Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Rehabilitation

- info compiled as research when St Michael's was closing, to show its closure was part of a pattern of health care consolidation that had been ongoing for over 30 years

[Ctownrocks1]

Is there a list of the new or existing hospitals that have expanded during that 30 year span in the Cleveland area? It would be nice to compare how much of the closings were just redistributed right back into the area.

[urb-a-saurus]

Chagrin Highlands, originally the Figgie project, appears to be getting (fanfare and drum roll) a FITNESS CENTER!  across Richmond Rd from the new UH construction site.  Be still my heart, at least until I mount one of the new cardio machines, lol.  So much excitement for one day.  Hey maybe its a corporate headquarters too 

[3231]

This was announced two years ago.

[urb-a-saurus]

They are just recently doing site preparation

[Redbeard1969]

They've been publicizing it lately; I'll try to an image of the place from the UH website.  From what I can tell, the corner of Richmond and Harvard is at the top left corner of the image, and the "ghostly" tower images flanking the one in the middle are future expansions of the center, if needed.

Here's also the text describing the center from the UH website:

As the crown jewel in the suburban component of the hospital’s Vision 2010 strategic plan, the new Ahuja Medical Center will become a symbol of caring for the community for generations to come. It will be situated on a 53-acre, previously undeveloped site at I-271 and Harvard Road. And, its design will be a prominent addition to the landscape, while having a minimal impact on the environment as an eco-friendly facility.
It will also be a catalyst for economic growth by bringing jobs, attracting additional medical industry and generating tremendous tax revenues. In his address to an awestruck crowd after University Hospitals CEO, Thomas F. Zenty III’s December 2006 announcement of the a $30 million philanthropic gift from Monte Ahuja and his family, Mr. Ahuja said, “Cleveland has given me my life. I can think of no better investment than University Hospitals’ Vision 2010.”

Mr. Zenty praised the Ahujas saying, "In naming UH's newest hospital the Ahuja Medical Center, we are paying tribute to the family's dedication to advancing health care for our community and beyond, and ensuring that future generations recognize the Ahuja family's role in promoting the economic vitality of Northeast Ohio."


Preliminary conceptual rendering of the new Ahuja Medical Center Beginning in 2003, hospital leadership and directors poured over market and industry studies to best determine how to meet the needs of an aging population in the eastern suburbs and a tremendously booming pattern of migration into suburbs further out such as Aurora, Twinsburg and Solon. To make advanced care more accessible to eastsiders and to anticipate growth in the need for services such as cardiac and stroke care, and others, hospital leaders determined the facility would be extremely viable. But, they wanted to go even further by embarking on an ambitious and carefully considered planning process to create one of the safest, best healing hospitals in the country.
As part of Vision 2010, the Ahuja Medical Center will truly fulfill the plan's goals of anticipating the health care needs of the region and providing care in a hospital “built around the need of patients and their families.” Vision 2010 reaffirms a strong commitment to the highest-quality, patient-centered care at UH and renews our focus on our centers of excellence in cancer, pediatrics, neurology, cardiology, orthopaedics, and surgical specialties.


FACTS ABOUT THE AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER:


The 371,700 square-foot hospital design will echo its purpose: to heal people. Integrated into the layout will be healing gardens, ponds, fountains and landscaped areas bordering parking. Walkways and gardens will wind throughout the campus and existing natural landscapes will be preserved. Incorporation of natural features is proven to help reduce stress and decrease healing and recovery times.

The eastern suburbs of Cleveland are experiencing one of the greatest surges in population of people aged 45 and above in the nation. Within several cities on the eastside, the over 65 population has more than quintupled in the last decade.

In the city of Aurora, more than 70 percent of the population is over age 65. Coupled with the fact that there is a dearth of major medical services in the eastern suburbs, there exists a serious need for advanced medical services in an environment in which savvy baby boomer consumers will want convenient access to high-quality health care.

In the medical and surgical areas, an array of inpatient and outpatient services, including the most technologically advanced, minimally-invasive surgical and endoscopic procedures will be available.

Leading-edge diagnostic services and genetic counseling will be offered and patients will have the benefit of close proximity to visit their primary care physician in offices adjacent to the hospital.

[Redbeard1969]

Here's the image:

[gotribe]

Good for job growth!  Kind of amazing to read that 70% of the poulation of Aurora is over 65.

[3231]

^That struck me as odd as well. I guess they have a lot of retirement facilities out there?

[X]

An eco-friendly facility on a previously undeveloped site and accessible only by car is an oxymoron as far as I am concerned.

[MayDay]

"53-acre, previously undeveloped site at I-271 and Harvard Road. And, its design will be a prominent addition to the landscape, while having a minimal impact on the environment (aside from acres of parking and of course the emissions given off by the hundreds/thousands? of vehicles going to/from daily, no transit access, the fuel used to ship in materials for the new construction, the run-off from asphalt into the ground) as an eco-friendly facility."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPz-j3bfq3E

 

[Eparabola]

I believe in the 1930's, that site was considered for the Olympics.  No joke.

[Ipsilon]

I liked that design the first time... when it was called the Cleveland Clinic Heart Center.

[Redbeard1969]

Wasn't that parcel of land considered for an IKEA years ago?  I thought I had heard that it was, but that the City of Cleveland, which owned a good bit of land out there, didn't want it, because Mike White wanted offices filled with higher-income taxpayers, rather than retail stores filled with minimum-wage clerks ... I'll have to check the Crains's Cleveland Business archives, because I remember reading it in Crains ... yet, there's a big shopping center out there now (since no office towers filled the land, other than the one), and now a hospital.  I still wish there was going to be an IKEA out there, but that'll never happen.

[gotribe]

^Yes it was, back in 2000 or 2001 I believe.  I don't think mike White had anything to do with it though.  I believe Jacobs had a size limit on the retailers.

[dwirthwein]

This was back in June 2000, I believe, and Crain's lead story was that IKEA was eyeing the Harvard/271 exit.  I called my wife, on vacation in Colorado to tell her the great news... prematurely...

What ended up happening was the the city or county quickly moved to limit any store size to avoid big boxes.... - fearing Walmart, etc... would pounce on that spot and that offices were better uses for the land for tax purposes. I think the limit was around 50,000 sq feet and IKEA would have been 250,000+ sq ft.  Lots of nasty - "no big retail" kinds of comments obviously from those who had no idea the draw IKEA would be...

Marcia Fudge, mayor of Warrensville Heights - was one of the most vocal over the years - swearing off big box stores like IKEA as poor uses for the land and that they could do better (though I can't imagine what she think Linens-N-Things or Filene's Basement are) and essentially saying "Not in our town" --- when, truth be told, something nice like IKEA would look 2nd class in a 4th rate suburb like Warrensville Heights...

[Mov2Ohio]

This was back in June 2000, I believe, and Crain's lead story was that IKEA was eyeing the Harvard/271 exit.  I called my wife, on vacation in Colorado to tell her the great news... prematurely...

What ended up happening was the the city or county quickly moved to limit any store size to avoid big boxes.... - fearing Walmart, etc... would pounce on that spot and that offices were better uses for the land for tax purposes. I think the limit was around 50,000 sq feet and IKEA would have been 250,000+ sq ft.  Lots of nasty - "no big retail" kinds of comments obviously from those who had no idea the draw IKEA would be...

Marcia Fudge, mayor of Warrensville Heights - was one of the most vocal over the years - swearing off big box stores like IKEA as poor uses for the land and that they could do better (though I can't imagine what she think Linens-N-Things or Filene's Basement are) and essentially saying "Not in our town" --- when, truth be told, something nice like IKEA would look 2nd class in a 4th rate suburb like Warrensville Heights...

Harvard Park is in Higland Hills, not Warrensville Heights.
The plan for Chagrin Higlands ALWAYS included a retail area at the corner of Harvard and Richmond.

[AJ93]

From the Jacobs' website




http://www.chagrinhighlands.com/land_availability/index.aspx?id=224

Looks like there will be another hotel, on Richmond across from the hospital, and then the remaining land is still up for grabs as far as final use. So office is still a strong possibility.

BTW, the whole project is in 3 or 4 suburbs. I belive the UH facility is in Beachwood, Harvard Park is Warrensville Hts, the easternmost edge is in Orange, and the two parcels west of Richmond are in Highland HIlls.

Edit: Here you can see where Warrensville juts up. That little peninsula is where Harvard Park is.

[Mov2Ohio]

Ah, I see.

I was by there the other day and they've cleared a huge amount of land across from the Hospital. I guess it may be the Hotel, but I also saw a sign saying a new fitness place would be coming in.

[dwirthwein]

Harvard Park is Warrensville Heights.... Mayor Marcia Fudge is an evil woman...

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