-One of the largest private medical centers in the world,
-The Cleveland Clinic saw more than 3,200,000 patient visits in 2009, with almost 80,000 hospital admissions.[3]
-Patients arrive at the Cleveland Clinic from all 50 states and more than 100 nations. The Cleveland Clinic's approximately 2,800 staff physicians and scientists and 1,300 residents[4] represent 120 medical specialties and subspecialties.[5]
-The Cleveland Clinic was ranked number one in America for cardiac care from 1994 to 2013.
-Cleveland Clinic is also an Ohio nonprofit corporation[7] which as of December 2010 had 10 regional hospitals in Northeast Ohio, a hospital and family health center in Florida, and a health center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a specialty center in Las Vegas, and a hospital in Abu Dhabi opening in 2013 [ wikipedia.org -In the decades since World War II, the Clinic has grown to become internationally prominent and is currently the second-largest medical group practice in the world, after the Mayo Clinic.[dubious – discuss]
The Cleveland Clinic was ranked as the fourth best hospital in America for complex and demanding situations according to the 2013 U.S. News & World Report America's Best Hospitals report[10] and ranked number one for cardiac care for 19 years in a row.[6] The Clinic's Glickman Urological Institute has the largest full-time urology faculty in the United States.
Altogether, fourteen specialties at the Cleveland Clinic were ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2013: heart (cardiology) and cardiac surgery (#1); digestive disorders (gastroenterology) (#2); urology (#2); rheumatology (#2); orthopedic surgery (#3); nephrology