For years, healthcare providers have worked with schools and districts in various ways to care for students. Reaching children at school made sense. Until the pandemic sent them home.

This is University Hospitals' largest addition to date, bringing multiple hospitals and ambulatory centers and more than 3,000 caregivers and 600 physicians under its umbrella.

The two plan to establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint center to advance the pace of discovery in through the use of high-performance computing on the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and quantum computing technologies. Through the collaboration, IBM plans to install its first private-sector on-premises IBM Quantum System One in the U.S. at the Clinic.

Federally qualified health centers have found pop-up vaccine clinics to be incredibly effective and efficient in their efforts to reach minority populations.

The $10.6 billion in revenue the Clinic reported for 2020 was actually slightly higher than in 2019, but fell short of the $11.1 billion in top-line revenue the system had budgeted before COVID-19 upended healthcare and the economy.

University Hospitals has appointed Dr. Francoise Adan to the new role. She will support and enhance the well-being of patients, caregivers and the broader Northeast Ohio community.

The center brings together nationally and internationally recognized researchers to focus on more than curing one of the most feared diseases. It also will work to end racial, ethnic, social and economic inequities that affect cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Of that, $10 million is earmarked for the new building, and $5.5 million will support an epilepsy study exploring the link between stress and seizures. In honor of the donation, the Clinic will name its epilepsy center The Charles Shor Epilepsy Center.

University Hospitals will serve as one of the first sites in the nation for a clinical trial evaluating an investigational drug for COVID-19 patients who don't need to be hospitalized.

Cleveland Clinic has named two physicians to new international leadership positions—one in Cleveland, and the other in Abu Dhabi.

Following the deal, the company will be 90% owned by its physicians. The preferred equity from Apollo helped make the recapitalization of US Acute Care possible. As part of the transaction, two Apollo representatives will join the US Acute Care board of directors.

Vaccine education targeted at minority communities is planned with a series of virtual town halls beginning in mid-February, and vaccines are set to go to 60 health centers serving highly vulnerable neighborhoods this week, said Gov. Mike DeWine.

Cleveland's University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, which signed their first formal agreement 125 years ago, announced they are extending their affiliation, a move that expands opportunities for the two organizations to work together and with others across the region.

The two organizations signed a letter of intent in fall 2019. Dr. Timothy Crone has been named president of the Canton hospital, which will now be formally known as Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital.

The clinic and Doctors Hospital Health System, a 94-bed system in the Bahamas, launched the council in a two-year strategic advisory agreement that will provide Doctors Hospital access to clinic experts for strategic planning, clinical education and leadership development.