History of Cleveland Clinic

4, was part of the American Expeditionary Forces and attached to the British Army Medical Hospital near Rouen.

[5] Crile, Bunts, and Lower, already shared a surgical practice in Cleveland before they left to serve in the Lakeside Unit.

Crile and Bunts started together as assistants in the surgical practice of Frank J. Weed, MD, at 16 Church Street on the near west side of Cleveland.

[5] The four purchased land at the corner of Euclid Avenue and E. 93rd St in Cleveland and constructed a four-story building with facilities for outpatient clinics and inpatient hospitalization, along with a medical laboratory.

[5] In April 1921, Cleveland Clinic had 60 employees, including 14 physicians, four nurses, a telephone operator, six cleaners, 22 clerical workers, an art department, and an unknown number of laboratory technicians.

[12][13] To meet rising patient volume, a 184-bed hospital was built in 1924, located at East 90th Street and Carnegie Avenue.

Among the dead were forty-three Clinic employees, including co-founder John Phillips, many of whom died from smoke inhalation after heroic efforts to save the lives of their patients.

[18] Philanthropist Samuel Mather formed a committee of 36 community leaders to help Cleveland Clinic reestablish itself in temporary quarters across the street.

[15] In 1942 Cleveland Clinic's Naval Reserve Unit, which included George Crile, Jr., MD, son of one of the founders, established a mobile hospital in New Zealand to treat wounded from the Guadalcanal Campaign.

[28][29][30] Cleveland Clinic built new operating rooms in the early 1970s to accommodate the growth of cardiac surgery.

[32][33][34][35] For access from local communities, Cleveland Clinic began building what are now 18 Family Health and Service Centers across the region.

During this period also, Cleveland Clinic invested in electronic medical records system that now links all its sites.

[26][40] Loop launched a capital campaign in 1997 with a $16 million lead gift from the Norma and Al Lerner and family.