Big Changes for Lakewood Hospital

[Jim O'Bryan]

Is it too late to change?

Bill

It is never too late to change, this is why I never give up kicking it with you.

Your last answer was laughable.

Nursing home?

As for the investment, I have no answers, but I am sure the Clinic would continue to invest
in Lakewood even without the strong Lakewood Hospital Foundation.

I think we found out, that even without paying taxes, the Clinic invests more in Lakewood
then they would in taxes, so I have to think, they are here for awhile.


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[dl meckes]

Since the partnership with the Clinic began, the citizens of Lakewood receive whatever care the Cleveland Clinic decides it will grant us, good bad or indifferent.

This is one of the benefits of regionalism.

[Will Brown]

Since the partnership with the Clinic began, the citizens of Lakewood receive whatever care the Cleveland Clinic decides it will grant us, good bad or indifferent.

This is one of the benefits of regionalism.

Are you saying that all citizens of Lakewood have to get their treatment through the Cleveland Clinic and Lakewood Hospital? So someone residing in Lakewood with Kaiser coverage, for example, would be treated at Lakewood Hospital only. That is simply untrue. You get your treatment at whatever hospital your doctor picks. If your doctor is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic, you get hospitalized at whatever Cleveland Clinic facility he deems proper, based on his affiliation, not based on your residence. I have no problem with the Clinic concentrating types of treatment at certain facilities; if anything, it seems an efficient use of their resources. And if they decide to concentrate geriatric care at Lakewood Hospital, perhaps it is to better accommodate Mr. Call and the other elderly people who seem to make up so large a part of our city.