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COMPLAINTANT: DENNIS J. KUCINICH
In further support of my complaint submitted on October 14, 2015, regarding Lakewood Hospital, I submit the following documents for consideration of the Commission.
(1)
The affidavit of Patricia Vecchio, a Lakewood Hospital patient and resident of Lakewood, Ohio establishing that the Cleveland Clinic is continuing to direct or steer patients away the leased Lakewood Hospital to wholly-owned Cleveland Clinic facilities, while the same medical services are available and advertised on the Lakewood Hospital website as being available at Lakewood Hospital.
(2)
The affidavit of Dr. Terrence Kilroy, MD, a Lakewood resident with privileges to practice pulmonary care at Lakewood Hospital, establishing that over the past 10 years certain health care services have been terminated and or transferred away from Lakewood Hospital to wholly owned facilities of the Cleveland Clinic. Further, Dr. Kilroy's affidavit establishes that certain health care services at Lakewood Hospital exist in name only, but are not being provided to the public by Cleveland Clinic in its management of Lakewood Hospital. Finally, the affidavit establishes Cleveland Clinic's Decanting Plan to move certain medical services by the end of 2015, from the leased Lakewood Hospital to the Clinic's wholly-owned new hospital and medical center currently under construction west of Lakewood, Ohio, in Avon.
(3)
An intra-office email from a Cleveland Clinic official, Frederick S. Frost, MD, to Terrence Kilroy, MD, establishing the imminent move and transfer
(December 2015) of Rehabilitation Services from Lakewood Hospital to the Cleveland Clinic's new health care campus cited above in Avon, Ohio.
( 4)
This action by Cleveland Clinic was initially objected to, as being detrimental to Lakewood Hospital, by the Mayor of Lakewood, Ohio in the attached letter dated July 3, 2014.
(5)
The Master Plan Report of a wholly-owned Cleveland Clinic Hospital, Fairview Hospital, dated 11-30-12 which establishes the details of the Decanting Plan of the Cleveland Clinic, adverse to Lakewood Hospital.
( 6)
Copies of slides from a Cleveland Clinic presentation of 2012 which clearly establish that the closure of Lakewood Hospital will result in at least 10,000 emergency department cases, currently being handled within Lakewood Hospital, be directed not only out of Lakewood, but outside the Cleveland Clinic system. This raises an urgent public policy question of access to emergency care for 50,000 Lakewood, Ohio residents and others traditionally served by Lakewood Hospital's emergency services. Additionally, recent changes to the Clinic's decanting strategy may result in another 17,000 emergency department cases being directed outside the Cleveland Clinic system, and not being provided emergency department health care services.
I have the contact information of several Lakewood Hospital doctors, patients and residents who would be willing to speak with your staff and to testify to any and all matters in the above complaint as well as the complaint filed by me on October 15, 2014.
Dennis J. Kucinich
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