Cleveland Clinic has been around for more than 85 years. Many great and legendary physicians have practiced here: Donald Effler, F. Mason Sones, George Crile, Rene Favaloro, Charles Higgens, Ralph Straffon… I wonder what these giants of the past would think of the clinical facilities in the new Miller Family Pavilion and Glickman Tower
? I have no doubt they would be pleased.
The Miller Family Pavilion and Glickman Tower have been designed in the 21st century for the needs of 21st century medicine. Their clinical capabilities haven’t grown up by happenstance, but have been carefully planned with significant input from the physicians and nurses who will be using them. They have the capacity to accommodate the most advanced technology of both today and tomorrow. The words “state-of-the-art” are used often in our profession, but these buildings will actually deserve them.
The Miller Family Pavilion triples the space previously available to our Heart & Vascular Institute. Teamwork, collaboration and innovation are built into the design. Clinical areas are built for ease of use by patients and medical professionals alike. “Flow” is managed to minimize patient wait times, and give physicians more time to spend with patients. The sheer number of clinical facilities will enhance the convenience of patients and caregivers alike.
Look at the numbers. The Miller Family Pavilion will have:
The Miller Pavilion will have:
- 128 exam rooms
- 79 procedure rooms
- 155 physician offices
- 16 operating rooms
- 10 cath labs
- 13 nuclear medicine rooms
- 93 intensive care beds
- Robotics suite
- Fully equipped electrophysiology labs
- Four specialized intensive care units, including a coronary intensive care unit, a heart failure intensive care unit and two surgical intensive care units, with a combined total of 110 intensive care unit beds
- Cardiac radiology and nuclear medicine facilities
The Glickman Tower will have:
- 19 nephrology exam rooms
- 54 urology and kidney exam rooms
- 7 female urology and pediatric urology exam rooms
- 16 procedure rooms, four of which are over 400 sq ft.
A helipad is an important part of any medical center like Cleveland Clinic that is part of a large regional network. For many years, the Cleveland Clinic helipad was located in a parking lot off 89th Street. It was then moved to the roof of the Sam and Maria Miller Emergency Services Building on Carnegie Avenue. Now it is moving to a permanent home on the roof of the Miller-Glickman complex where we will in fact have two. There, they will continue to serve as a critical component of our Emergency Transport program, which includes not only a dedicated helicopter, but fixed-wing aircraft and intensive care ground transportation. Having the helipads on top of the Miller-Glickman complex will shorten the time it takes us to transport emergency cases and hospital transfers from the helicopter to the interventional lab, operating room, or hospital as needed.
The medical giants of Cleveland Clinic’s past made their revolutionary breakthroughs in what many today would consider to be less-than-adequate facilities. Imagine what today’s Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists, who are no less talented than their predecessors, will be able to accomplish in these new surroundings. It is a thrilling opportunity. I envy the doctors who will practice here in years to come.
Of course, it is the Cleveland Clinic staff and employees who support these medical breakthroughs, and who are the heart and soul of this organization. These new buildings honor the hard work that our workforce does every single day to put “patients first” and make Cleveland Clinic known for excellence around the world. I am very, very appreciative of the people who choose to work for Cleveland Clinic. They are the best, anywhere.
But what about patients? In my next blog entry, I’ll discuss how the Miller Family Pavilion and Glickman Tower will make the patient experience second to none.
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