Category: Medicine

SOUTH POINTE HOSPITAL, 41110 Warrensville Road, was created in November 1994 through the merging of Meridia Suburban Hospital and nearby Brentwood Hospital. Meridia Suburban Hospital opened in 1957 as Suburban Community Hospital, expanding its structure in 1968 and 1975.

SOUTHWEST GENERAL HEALTH CENTER (formerly Southwest General Hospital), founded in 1921, continued in the 1990s to operate one of the most active emergency departments in Cuyahoga County, seeing over 34,000 patients in its Emergency Dept. in 1994. Southwest General was one of the first community hospitals in the U.S. founded by public subscription, with 8 original beds.

SPORTS MEDICINE became established in Cleveland in 1969 with the creation of a Sports Medicine Section in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, one of the first such units in the country. A group of orthopedic surgeons conceived the idea.

ST. ALEXIS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER. See ST. MICHAEL HOSPITAL.

ST. JOHN HOSPITAL (St. John of God Hospital), located at 7911 Detroit Ave., provided medical services on Cleveland's west side from 1890-1990. It was opened by the Sisters of St. Francis, of Lafayette, IN, on land purchased by Bp. RICHARD GILMOUR with a gift from W. J. Gordon. In 1916 Bp.

ST. JOHN WEST SHORE HOSPITAL, opened on 1 March 1981 as St. John and West Shore Hospital and is located at 29000 Center Ridge Rd. in WESTLAKE. The hospital served as the core facility of the Westlake Health Campus. The 4-story facility was originally co-owned by ST.

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL, the first general public hospital in Cleveland, was established in 1852 in a 2-story frame house at Willett and Monroe streets in OHIO CITY. The SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE were invited by Bp.

ST. MICHAEL HOSPITAL, the second CATHOLIC hospital in Cleveland, was founded in 1884 as St. Alexis. Sisters M. Leonarda and M. Alexia of the Order of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration established St. Alexis to serve workers and manufacturing concerns in NEWBURGH and the Cuyahoga Industrial Valley.

STORM, ROSA (18 July 1791-3 May 1867), doctor and an advocate of homeopathic medicine, was born in Coxsackie, N.Y. to Isaac and Agnes Storm. He attended and later taught at the village school; at age 22 began studying medicine under local doctors; and in 1816 received a license to practice from the Medical Society of Seneca County, N.Y.

STRATEGIC HEALTH SYSTEMS. See MERIDIA HEALTH SYSTEM.

SUBURBAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. See SOUTH POINTE HOSPITAL.

The TECHNICARE CORP., a leading manufacturer of medical diagnostic imaging equipment, began in July 1970 when a Massachusetts-based investment firm purchased Ohio-Nuclear, Inc., a Cleveland-area manufacturer of medical diagnostic equipment. Incorporated in Oct. 1958 by Donald W. Steel, it was known in its early years as Nuclear-Ohio, Inc.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE REFORM OF OHIO ABORTION LAWS, headquartered in Cleveland Heights, was founded in 1967 and chaired by Richard A. Schwartz, MD. Schwartz was a psychiatrist at the Cleveland Clinic, who used psychiatry and women’s mental health as an argument in favor of abortion.

THE LIVING ROOM was founded in 1989 as a function of the LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND, and served as a drop-in center for AIDS counseling and educati

THRIVE FOR CHANGE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 2021 with the mission of promoting health, hope, and healing for individuals at risk of overdose. It focuses on providing harm reduction supplies such as naloxone and contraceptives in addition to offering education, training, and care linkages.

TURNBULL, RUPERT B. JR. (3 Oct. 1913-18 Feb.

U.S. GENERAL HOSPITAL AT CLEVELAND was a pavilion-style, 320-bed Civil War Army hospital, located on Univ. Hts. (see TREMONT) in Brooklyn Twp. from 1862-65. Construction began on 14 Nov.