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• Serves patients at more than 150 locations in 55 Northeast Ohio communities
• Employs more than 15,000 physicians and other employees
• Is Cuyahoga County's second largest private sector employer
• Partners with Case Western Reserve University
• With CWRU, is the largest center for biomedical research in Ohio and 13th highest recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health
• In 1993, received a Distinguished Service Award from the NAACP
• In 1996, 1997 and 2000, received Better Business Bureau's Service Vision Award honoring superior achievement in customer relations
• In 1998, received Corporate Excellence Award from the Urban League of Greater Cleveland
• In 1998, received YWCA Eleanore M. Sutler Equality Award recognizing equal empowerment of women in the workplace and excellence and leadership in the area of racial justice
• In 1998, QualChoice received J.D. Power & Associate's Medstat Quality Catalyst Award for consumer satisfaction
• In 1999, was the first hospital to receive the Exemplary Voluntary Effort Award from the United States Department of Labor

Notable discoveries include:

• 1915 -- Developed SMA, known as Similac, an infant formula
• 1930s -- Performed pioneering work in surgical treatments of coronary artery disease
• 1947 -- Performed the first successful defibrillation of the human heart, leading to the development of CPR
• 1980s -- Co-developed clozapine, first new drug for treatment of schizophrenia in 20 years
• 1982 -- Installed the nation's first whole-body MRI scanner
• 1990 -- Discovered a genetic defect that causes a form of arthritis
• 1995 -- Identified a genetic alteration linked to the development of colon cancer

UHHS year in Review 2000

First quarter:

• Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Pediatric Surgery Center opens at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital ($11 million)
• Partnership solidified with Southwest General Health Center ($24 million)
• Richard and Marcy Horvitz Pediatric Research Center opens at RB&C

Second quarter:

• Acquires Saint Michael Hospital and Richmond Heights Hospital ($13 million)
• UHHS Bedford Medical Centers opens Bretschneider Women's Unit ($1.5 million)
• Ireland Cancer Center opens at Southwest General Health Center

Third quarter:

• Standard & Poor's reaffirms UHHS' AA rating with ''stable'' outlook
• UHHS opens critical care unit at St. John West Shore Hospital
• New Rainbow RapidCare unit opens at St. John West Shore Hospital
• UHHS opens Berea primary care center
• Vice President Al Gore visits RB&C
• UHC HeliStop opens to accommodate two MedEvac helicopters

Fourth quarter:

• Joint venture with Heather Hill formed, 51 percent UHHS on 156 acres in Geauga County
• The Research Institute of University Hospitals of Cleveland approved ($110 million, 300,000 square feet)
• 600-space parking garage opens adjacent to RB&C and MacDonald Hospital
• Ireland Cancer Center opens at Mercy Medical Center in Canton
• Twenty-bed behavioral health unit opens at Saint Michael Hospital
• UHHS Chagrin Highlands Medical Center nears completion ($29 million)

UHHS Hospitals

• Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
• MacDonald Women's Hospital
• Lakeside Hospital
• Alfred and Norma Lerner Tower
• Samuel Mather Pavilion
• Psychiatric Center at Hanna Pavilion
• Ireland Cancer Center
• Bolwell Health Center

Acquisitions

• UHHS Bedford Medical Center (Bedford, acquired 1993)
• UHHS Brown Memorial Hospital (Conneaut, acquired 1997)
• UHHS Geauga Regional Hospital (Chardon, acquired 1995)
• UHHS Laurelwood Hospital & Counseling Centers (Willoughby, acquired 1997)
• UHHS Memorial Hospital of Geneva (Geneva, acquired 1970
• UHHS Richmond Heights Hospital (acquired 2000)
• UHHS Saint Michael Hospital (acquired 2000)

UHHS partner hospitals

• Southwest General Health Center (Middleburg Heights)
• CSAHS/UHHS (Canton)
• Mercy Medical Center (Canton, 1999)
• UHHS/CSAHS (Cuyahoga)
• St. John West Shore Hospital (Westlake, 1999)
• St. Vincent Charity Hospital (Cleveland, 1999)
• Heather Hill Hospital, Health & Care Center (Chardon, 2000)