Cleveland Clinic’s Neurological Institute celebrated the opening of a new, first-of-its-kind outpatient care center on Cleveland Clinic’s Administrative Campus in Beachwood at 3050 Science Park Drive in Building 3 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 21, marking the end of a four-year project.
With 22 exam rooms and 14 consultation suites, many of which previously housed administrative offices prior to renovations, the Cleveland Clinic Medical Outpatient Center, Beachwood will increase the number of outpatient neurology appointments offered by the institute and will allow care to take place closer to home for patients who live on Cleveland’s east side.
According to Dr. Andre Machado, chief of Neurological Institute, the new branch will allow patients to be able to seek care for complex neurological issues closer to home, hopefully providing them “access with less friction,” and divert patients from postponing care due to the inconvenience of driving downtown to the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus.
“The intent is to bring the same level of care that we are going to continue to provide on the main campus into the community closer to where our patients live,” Machado said. “We know that going downtown to the main campus is something that patients do when they have to. We also know that it’s difficult, and because of those difficulties with transportation, sometimes people postpone the care that they need, and that’s not ideal.”
Dr. Jorge Guzman, president of Cleveland Clinic’s Northeast Ohio market, said that although this is a first-of-its-kind center for specifically neurology patients, he believes that more specialties may follow suit with opening their own outpatient care centers due to its convenience. In addition, the facility will provide room to conduct more research as well as seeing patients, Guzman said.
Also in attendance at the ribbon-cutting event was Beachwood Mayor Justin Berns, who called the new center “an investment in Beachwood’s future,” as about 50 new jobs are expected to be created as a result of the opening.
“This new center will be a pillar for the future of neuro health here in the Greater Cleveland region,” Berns said at the event. “This facility represents meaningful progress for patients and families across Northeast Ohio. By concentrating so many neurological services in one central, convenient location, the Cleveland Clinic is making care more accessible, more coordinated and easier to navigate for patients, caregivers and our residents.”
The outpatient center will offer appointments initially in the following areas: sleep, neuro restoration, spine/pain, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry/psychology, brain health, general neurology/neuromuscular issues, cerebrovascular care, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.
According to Machado, the Beachwood location will eventually serve as a site of the Cleveland Clinic Brain Study, one of the largest studies of brain disease in the country that aims to prevent and cure neurological diseases through research.
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