The CLEVELAND CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT was founded by Dr. ANNY KATAN, Dr. Robert A. Furman, and Eleanor Hosley in 1960; they pioneered instruction in child analysis for non-medical degree candidates.
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The CLEVELAND CHILD HEALTH ASSN. (CCHA), founded in 1929, was one of the most successful health and child-welfare programs in the U.S. for almost 20 years. Designed to educate women about maternal and child health, the CCHA embodied a growing national concern for high maternal and infant mortality rates. The CCHA belonged to the Welfare Fed. and was supported by the Community Fund. Dr.
The CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (incorporated February 5, 1921) is an independent, not-for-profit academic medical center engaged in patient care, research, and education. In 2005, it was the second-largest private medical group practice in America, including 1,400 physicians in 120 medical specialties and sub-specialties, serving more than a million patient visits a year.
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The CLEVELAND DIETETIC ASSOCIATION is dedicated to raising the professional standards of Cleveland-area dietitians, and educating the public on healthier eating habits. Lula Graves, supervisor of dietians at Lakeside Hospital, formed the Association in 1915. Its initial purpose was to promote the employment of trained dietitians in area hospitals.
The CLEVELAND EYE BANK serves northeast Ohio by retrieving, evaluating, and distributing donated eye tissue for transplantation, research, and teaching. It is funded through processing fees, private donations, grants, and gifts. In its forty-seven-year history, the Eye Bank has provided nearly 15,000 corneas for transplants and approximately 12,500 eyes for teaching and research.
CLEVELAND HEALTH EDUCATION MUSEUM. See HEALTH MUSEUM.
The CLEVELAND HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY was created in Feb. 1965 by Western Reserve Univ.
CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER, affiliated with CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV (Case), was created in June 1945 from the merger of the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing and the speech clinic at Western Reserve University.
The CLEVELAND HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL (May 1856-1917), founded by Dr. Seth R. Beckwith, was the first privately owned hospital in Cleveland. Beckwith took over a 2-story house on Lake St. (Lakeside Ave.) at Clinton Rd. and modified it to accommodate 20 patients, mainly sick and injured employees of the Lake Shore and the Cleveland, Columbus, & Cincinnati railroads.
The CLEVELAND HOSPITAL ASSN., begun in 1915, failed to gain hospital privileges for African American doctors and freer access to hospital care for African Americans.
The CLEVELAND HOSPITAL SERVICE ASSN. (known after 1939 as Blue Cross), was the forerunner of BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD MUTUAL OF NORTHERN OHIO. It administered the first prepaid hospitalization plan in the U.S. directed to the general public, which was endorsed by the American Hospital Assn., the Cleveland Hospital Council, and the medical profession.
The CLEVELAND LIBERALIST was the personal organ of Dr. Samuel Underhill, a semiretired physician of advanced rationalist philosophy. Introduced on 10 Sept. 1836, the 8-page, 3-column weekly was nearly as much magazine as newspaper in format, preferring scientific expositions over political manifestoes.
CLEVELAND MEDICAL COLLEGE. See CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV.
The CLEVELAND MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSN. was organized on 27 Nov. 1894, by a committee representing the CUYAHOGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY, the SOCIETY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, and the CLEVELAND MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The CLEVELAND MEDICAL READING CLUB, an organization of black physicians founded in November 1925, was, in 1995, one of the oldest continually meeting medical clubs in the city. It was created by African American physicians, excluded because of race from other medical organizations, to keep abreast of programs and advances in the medical field.
The CLEVELAND MEDICAL SOCIETY was organized in 1893 to advance medical science, promote the interests of the medical profession in Cleveland, and foster fraternal feeling among physicians. Incorporated in 1894, it was founded by physicians as a protest against the orientation and policies of the CUYAHOGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The CLEVELAND PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE (CPI), established in 1945 as the Cleveland State Receiving Hospital, is a short-term psychiatric-care hospital for the observation, care, and treatment of the mentally ill, especially those patients with mild conditions in the early stages and possibly of short duration.
The CLEVELAND PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER, which prior to 2002 was known as The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society, was founded by Doctors MAURITZ and ANNY KATAN and Dr.
The CLEVELAND STATE HOSPITAL (1852-1975) was a state-supported psychiatric facility for long-term care. Originally known as the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, it was the second of 6 public asylums established in Ohio during the 1850s. It was later known as Newburgh State Hospital. The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum was authorized by an act of the Ohio legislature.
The CLEVELAND TRAINING SCHOOL FOR COLORED NURSES was established in 1898 to provide medical education for black women. At a time when black doctors and nurses had difficulty gaining access to hospitals for internships and practicums, the school's founder, Dr. Latrobe Motley, tried to purchase a hospital building to offer the nurses a practical training.
CLEVELAND UNION EYE CARE CENTER, INC., owned and operated by the trade union movement of northeastern Ohio, was created as the result of a study in 1958 of the needs of union members for a comprehensive program of eye care.
The CLEVELAND WATER CURE ESTABLISHMENT, founded in 1848 by Dr. Thos. T. Seelye, was a combination sanitarium and resort for the treatment of various ailments and diseases through HYDROPATHY. Such establishments became fashionable in the U.S., particularly in Ohio and New York, during the 1840s and 1850s.
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF BEDFORD (also known as BEDFORD MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL). See UNIV. HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM BEDFORD MEDICAL CENTER.