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MetroHealth eyes next suburban targets Medical centers to south, west could be added to new, $23 million Middleburg Hts. location By TIMOTHY MAGAW tmagaw@crain.com
MetroHealth’s long-held desire to have a dramatic presence beyond its main campus on West 25th Street in Cleve-
land’s urban core got a big boost last week when the hard-pressed health system opened the doors of its $23 million health center in Middleburg Heights. Next for colonization by MetroHealth could be the adjoining suburbs of
Brecksville and Broadview Heights to the south, and Lakewood and Westlake to the west. Sitting on 10 acres on Pearl Road just off Interstate 71, the gleaming, 57,000square-foot structure in Middleburg Heights is the physical manifestation of a plan hatched under former CEO Mark Moran and focused on extending MetroHealth’s reach into residential communities throughout Cuyahoga County.
The plan was touted as the central component of propping up MetroHealth’s battered finances by bringing more Medicare and commercial-insured patients — and thus more revenue — into the health system’s coffers. Though Mr. Moran never would disclose the other communities in which MetroHealth planned to build, his successor, Dr. Akram Boutros, did not hesitate See METRO Page 6
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High-tech grants are behind, but wait! JANET CENTURY
ABC the Tavern in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood added a patio in late June that seats about 50 and cost less than $10,000 to build.
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Third Frontier has yet to award 86% of budget, though big dough still may flow By CHUCK SODER csoder@crain.com
leveland only gets about 89 sunny days a year, says Trace Althoff, general manager at ABC the Tavern on Uptown Avenue in the city’s University Circle neighborhood. But even with Cleveland’s unpredictable weather, ABC is among the legion of restaurants and bars that continue to add patio seating to please patrons who’d prefer to sit in the great outdoors.
Though 2013 is half over, a large majority of the $236 million the state has set aside to fund high-tech economic development projects this year has gone untouched. The Third Frontier Commission has awarded just $33 million in grants to technology companies and projects so far this year, or 14% of its 2013 budget.
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