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Our healthcare systems include nationally ranked providers, leading research companies, an innovative medical and pharmacy school, and imaginative educators.
Akron Children’s Hospital
Akron Children’s has been caring for children since 1890. Its pediatric specialties are ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report. With two hospital campuses, six regional health centers and more than 50 primary and specialty care locations throughout Ohio, Akron Children’s is making it easier for today’s busy families to find the high-quality pediatric care they need.
In 2022, Akron Children’s provided more than 1.3 million patient encounters. The system also operates neonatal and pediatric units in the hospitals of their regional health care partners. Every year, Akron Children’s home care nurses provide thousands of in-home visits, and school-based nurse practitioners manage clinic visits for children preschool through high school. With Quick Care Online virtual visits and Akron Children’s Anywhere app, care is available for families whenever and wherever needed. Learn more at akronchildrens.org.
Bragging Rights
• From brightly-colored interiors to kid-created artwork and toddler-size chairs, everything at Akron Children’s is about the kids. Akron Children’s doctors, nurses and therapists are especially trained in child development so families will see them take extra time to ease fears and answer questions. Stickers are readily passed out at information desks, and child life specialists explain procedures so kids understand what’s happening. They may just get to pick the color of their cast or the scent of their anesthesia heading into surgery. No one looks forward to a hospitalization, but even that experience can be uplifted by the kindness of a volunteer offering to bake cookies bedside, deliver a craft kit or read a book aloud.
• Since 1992, the Doggie Brigade,™ sponsored by Milk Bone, has brought joy, comfort and wagging tails to patients at Akron Children’s. These four-legged volunteers tour the hallways, visit patients in their rooms and stop in the activity rooms to see children who would like a visit. Patients often report that for the duration of their visit, they forget about their illness or pain and feel like a kid. And guess who’s an honorary member of the Doggie Brigade? Willie Nelson, a therapeutic miniature pony, gets cleaned up by his handlers at Victory Gallop and regularly visits patients room to room. When he exits the elevator and heads to a patient floor, you can always expect giggles and looks of surprise.
• Since 1993, visitors to Akron Children’s have marveled at the sights and sounds of artist George Rhodes’ Incrediball Circus 2. The 20 x 9-foot art installation in the atrium lobby of the main hospital building is a fun “Rube Goldberg” contraption that sends balls on a never-ending roller coaster ride tucked inside a glass case. The colorful and whimsical art is just one of the pieces that declare this is a hospital for children and has become so synonymous with Akron Children’s that smaller versions of it greet visitors at all the hospital’s regional health centers. You may even spot one at the airport.
Aultman Hospital
Aultman Hospital, Stark County’s first hospital, opened in 1892. The nonprofit hospital has more than 7,000 employees across the healthcare system and more than 1,000 active providers. Since 2006, Aultman Hospital has received Magnet recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, an achievement shared by only nine percent of hospitals in the nation.
With 300 locations serving seven counties across the region—spanning multiple hospitals, outpatient facilities, physician offices, therapy locations and hospice care— Aultman opened its first freestanding emergency department in Massillon in fall 2019, as well as the region’s first comprehensive cancer center with the Timken Family Cancer Center at its Canton campus in 2022.
Aultman Health Foundation provides comprehensive healthcare services including heart, cancer and emergency care, along with a broad spectrum of other specialties and services.
Aultman’s wide variety of unique, state-of-the-art services range from complex TAVR and Watchman heart procedures to comprehensive medical, surgical, interventional and radiation cancer care to roboticsassisted surgeries and more. It also participates in clinical research, pioneering future cardiac and cancer treatments. Aultman also serves as a teaching hospital, offering nine different residency and fellowship programs in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular disease, pharmacy, OB/GYN, radiology, orthopedics, emergency medicine, family medicine and internal medicine.
Bragging Rights
• Offers more than 300 locations serving seven counties in the region.
• Includes more than 7,000 employees and over 1,000 active providers.
• Provides 1,032 private beds for the comfort of patients and their families.
• Since 2006, Aultman Hospital received Magnet recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, an achievement shared by only nine percent of hospitals in the nation.
Cleveland Clinic Akron General and Medina Hospital
Cleveland Clinic Akron General, a notfor- profit healthcare organization, was founded in 1914 as Peoples Hospital and affiliated with Cleveland Clinic in 2015. Akron General’s main campus in downtown Akron is anchored by a 532-registered-bed teaching and research medical center. Its state-ofthe- art Emergency Department was built in 2018 and is a designated Level I Trauma Center, the highest level available. Akron General also has Health & Wellness Centers in Bath, Green and Stow, offering a variety of integrated outpatient services, including 24-hour emergency departments, primary and specialty care practices, and medically supervised exercise programs. Akron General also operates a small hospital in Lodi, Ohio, that provides critical access for residents of that rural area. In 2022, when Cleveland Clinic was named the No. 4 hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Cleveland Clinic Akron General was named No. 7 in Ohio and the No. 1 hospital in the Akron metropolitan area. Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital, originally the four-bedroom home of the Theodore Weidner family, opened in 1944. Today, the hospital is a modern 148-bed hospital located on Route 18 near I-71 as you enter the Medina community from the East. Part of the Cleveland Clinic since 2009, the hospital features the latest technology and procedures with more than 600 physicians on the medical staff covering more than 30 areas of specialization, including general surgery, orthopedic and emergency medicine. The hospital’s Logsdon Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine offers patients alternative treatments that complement their medical care. The hospital has also recently upgraded its chapel to be more welcoming and more inclusive of all faiths. The Medina Hospital Foundation, along with the current medical staff, supports local high school graduates who plan to pursue a course of study in the medical field each year. They have awarded more than $750,000 over the hospital’s history.
Bragging Rights
Cleveland Clinic Akron General:
• Is proud to serve its community, with more than 25,000 admissions and more than 936,000 outpatient visits in 2022.
• Is committed to training the next generation of healthcare leaders, off ering highly regarded training programs in internal medicine, family medicine, OB/GYN, emergency medicine, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, psychology, urology, breast surgery oncology, pharmacy and vitreo-retinal and ocular trauma.
• Has a team that works with patients addicted to opioids to create a treatment plan just for them. From immediate treatment, education and support, to assisting with the transition of care, support from Recovery’s in Reach is available 24/7 at the Akron General Emergency Department in downtown Akron and the Emergency Departments in Bath, Green and Stow.
• Has opened a food pantry that provides needed grocery staples to patients in our Center for Family Medicine who share with their provider that they may not have enough food at home.
• Has a walk-in clinic where patients can get quick treatment for minor muscle, bone or joint injuries without an appointment. The Ortho Express Care at the Stow Health & Wellness Center off ers treatment for patients age 7 and up.
Cleveland Clinic Mercy Medical Center
Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital became a full member of the Cleveland Clinic health system in 2021 and is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine. Founded in 1908, the Catholic faith-based medical center operates a 476-bed hospital in Canton and outpatient locations in Alliance, Carroll County, Jackson Township, Lake Township, Louisville, Massillon, North Canton, Plain Township and Tuscarawas County.
It had 14,605 hospital admissions and 581,137 outpatient visits in 2022.
Bragging Rights
• Comprehensive cardiac care including diagnostic services and cardiac rehab program
• Nation’s first accredited Chest Pain Center and Cardiac Catheterization Lab within an emergency department
• Comprehensive cancer care accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC)
• Level II Trauma Center, verified by the American College of Surgeons
• Primary Stroke Center certified by The Joint Commission
• Offers general surgery in addition to surgical specialties, including cancer, colorectal, gynecological, orthopedics, cardiac and vascular. Specializes in minimally invasive and robotic surgical procedures.
Summa Health
Summa Health, headquartered in Akron, is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in Ohio. Formed in 1989 with the merger of Akron City and St. Thomas Hospitals, this nonprofi t system now encompasses a network of:
• Hospitals
• Community-based health centers
• SummaCare Insurance
• A multi-specialty group practice
• Research and medical education
• The Summa Foundation
Summa Health off ers exceptional approaches to healthcare delivery through multiple operating entities and has served millions of patients in comprehensive acute, critical, emergency, outpatient and long-term/home-care settings. In addition, Summa represents more than 1,000 licensed inpatient beds in the following clinical settings:
• Summa Health System—Akron Campus
• Summa Health System—Barberton Campus
• Summa Rehab Hospital
Outpatient care is extended throughout Summit, Medina, Portage, Stark and Wayne counties in multiple community health centers. Providing superior, multi-specialty patient care, medical research and continuing medical education, Summa is consistently ranked one of the best healthcare providers in the country.
Bragging Rights
• Serves patients throughout its fi ve-county region each year in comprehensive emergency, acute, critical, outpatient and longterm/ home care settings
• Is one of the largest employers in Summit County with more than 8,000 employees
• In 2023, Summa Health opened the Juve Family Behavioral Health Pavilion, a 60-bed, seven-story inpatient and outpatient facility for mental health and addiction treatment.
• Its Accountable Care Organization, NewHealth Collaborative, is regularly recognized for achieving outstanding quality and fi nancial outcomes
• Summa Health System—Akron Campus is the fi rst hospital in the greater Akron region to be awarded the Comprehensive Stroke Center certifi cation from the Joint Commission, in collaboration with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
• Its Akron and Barberton Campuses are recipients of the Healthgrades 2023 America’s 100 Best Hospitals Award™.
• Recently opened a 9,277 square-foot Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center.
