Q: How can you call what the Cleveland Clinic proposed a hospital?
A: The proposed facility will offer a state-of-the-art, 24-hour ER. It will also house primary care physicians offering MORE services than the current Lakewood Hospital. Under Ohio Law, that qualifies as a hospital.
From the state of Ohio's Site:
(2) "Hospital" means an institution classified as a hospital under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code in which are provided to inpatients diagnostic, medical, surgical, obstetrical, psychiatric, or rehabilitation care for a continuous period longer than twenty-four hours or a hospital operated by a health maintenance organization. "Hospital" does not include a facility licensed under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code, a health care facility operated by the department of mental health and addiction services or the department of developmental disabilities, a health maintenance organization that does not operate a hospital, the office of any private licensed health care professional, whether organized for individual or group practice, or a clinic that provides ambulatory patient services and where patients are not regularly admitted as inpatients. "Hospital" also does not include an institution for the sick that is operated exclusively for patients who use spiritual means for healing and for whom the acceptance of medical care is inconsistent with their religious beliefs, accredited by a national accrediting organization, exempt from federal income taxation under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 1, as amended, and providing twenty-four hour nursing care pursuant to the exemption in division (E) of section 4723.32 of the Revised Code from the licensing requirements of Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code.
I was incorrect in stating that they had corrected this error. The new facility proposed is NOT an inpatient facility and the Mayor and his supporters have said over & over again that the Healthcare TREND is outpatient care. They and Build Lakewood maintain that we will be a healthier community without a hospital.
Unbelievable. Why don't they just call it a MOB, Medical Office Building, which is what it is. Which is what the June, 2012 meeting at Fairview Hospital called it in the DECANTING PLAN for Lakewood Hospital.
I really had thought they had corrected this lie. They just buried it further down the page.
