MetroHealth Medical Center Jobs and Profile

The MetroHealth System is one of the largest, most comprehensive health care providers in Northeast Ohio, serving the medical needs of the Greater Cleveland community for 170 years. More than 500 primary care and specialty care physicians practice within The MetroHealth System. Affiliated since 1914 with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MetroHealth is a center for medical research and education, with all active staff physicians holding Case faculty appointments.

The MetroHealth System is comprised of a major medical center, a rehabilitation hospital, two long-term care/skilled nursing centers, an outpatient surgery center, and a network of community-based health care centers.

MetroHealth Medical Center, located on the near west side of Cleveland, is a leader in trauma, emergency and critical care; women’s and children’s services, including high-risk obstetrical care and neonatal intensive care; comprehensive medical and surgical subspecialties; heart and vascular care; cancer care; senior health; stroke and rehabilitative health care services.  MetroHealth Medical Center offers the most advanced techniques in treating complex medical problems.

MetroHealth Medical Center provides care to nearly 28,000 inpatients, including more than 3,400 newborns annually.  More than 700,000 visits are recorded each year in the medical center’s outpatient centers.  Patient visits to the emergency department exceed 91,000.

MetroHealth’s Critical Care Pavilion, opened in 2004, is one of the nation’s most technologically advanced centers for emergency medicine, trauma, and surgical care and a facility on par with MetroHealth’s standing as Cleveland’s highest-accredited trauma center.

MetroHealth continually strives to create an environment that attracts prominent physicians and researchers.  MetroHealth’s Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr., M.D., Center for Education and Research houses education and research programs, including laboratories, support areas, classrooms, and a 10,300-square-foot medical library.

MetroHealth’s Outpatient Plaza, on the campus of the medical center, consists of four pavilions each dedicated to a specialty area.

• Rehabilitation Pavilion - offers a range of rehabilitative programs, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, industrial medicine and speech and hearing services.
• Women’s and Children’s Pavilion - encompasses all outpatient services for women and children, including pediatrics, obstetrics (normal and high-risk), gynecology, child care services and a fetal diagnostic center.
• Specialty Services Pavilion - provides a variety of medical and surgical specialties, including cardiology, orthopaedics, rheumatology, geriatrics, gastroenterology, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, and otolaryngology.
• Cancer Care Pavilion - consolidates MetroHealth’s outpatient cancer care programs and services, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, into one convenient location.

Each pavilion maintains its own reception and waiting area in addition to support services such as radiology and pharmacy. Each pavilion is equipped with elevators that extend to an underground 400-car parking garage for easy access.

MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute of Ohio is the largest hospital-based rehabilitation program in the state with 143 inpatient beds and a wide variety of outpatient services. Located on the campus of MetroHealth Medical Center, it offers a full range of physical, occupational and speech therapies as well as therapeutic recreation, art therapy, vocational services, audiological evaluation and social services.

Specialized programs are designed to assist people recovering from amputation, arthritis, burns, geriatric disorders, head injuries, industrial injuries, major multiple trauma, neurologic diseases, orthopaedic problems, spinal cord injuries or strokes. The Institute’s mission to provide high-quality health care is further enhanced by its long tradition of excellence in teaching and clinical research. Innovative research in restoring function through electrical stimulation is an integral component of the center’s work.

Beyond the medical center campus, MetroHealth Center for Community Health operates nine neighborhood health care centers designed to provide outpatient medical services to people in their communities.  A comprehensive staff of physicians, registered nurses, dentists, social workers, counselors, and other professionals offer primary care and specialty services for the entire family.

The two newest community health sites, MetroHealth Buckeye Health Center and MetroHealth Broadway Health Center, mirror MetroHealth’s growth into convenient retail locations.  MetroHealth has demonstrated success of its “retail model” in establishing outpatient health centers where people shop, bank or dine, making access to physicians as easy as possible.  These sites join MetroHealth Lee-Harvard Health Center and MetroHealth Asia Plaza Health Center on Cleveland’s east side.

Other MetroHealth health centers include MetroHealth Brooklyn Medical Group, MetroHealth Strongsville Medical Group, and the MetroHealth West Park Medical Building.  They serve the primary health care needs of the Cleveland metropolitan area’s west-side residents. Physicians at these sites provide multi-specialty, family-oriented health care in the areas of internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and specialty services.

In addition, MetroHealth provides medical care at the Thomas F. McCafferty Health Center and J. Glen Smith Health Center in partnership with the City of Cleveland. Patients have direct access to all the services of The MetroHealth System, including inpatient hospitalization, emergency care, long-term care and rehabilitation.

MetroHealth Outpatient Surgery Center, located off I-71 at West 150^th Street in Cleveland, is a state-of-the-art facility for a wide range of outpatient surgical procedures and physician offices in several medical and surgical specialties, including otolaryngology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and pain management.

Three MetroHealth facilities serve patients requiring skilled nursing or long-term care.  On the MetroHealth Medical Center campus are the medical center’s 29-bed subacute unit and The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Center for Skilled Nursing Care, a 150-bed facility opened in 2000.  In the eastern suburb of Highland Hills is the 291-bed MetroHealth Center for Skilled Nursing Care.  Services include 24-hour physician coverage and nursing care, social work, nutrition, psychology, rehabilitation, complex medical, IV therapy, respiratory care, hospice, specialized dementia units, wound care, physical and occupational therapy, speech language pathology, and therapeutic recreation.

The centers have a broad patient care program with continual expansion of patient care services. They are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and approved by the Ohio Department of Health for Medicare and Medicaid.

The Senior Health & Wellness Center at MetroHealth Old Brooklyn Campus, site of the former Deaconess Hospital, opened in October of 2007.  A $30 million renovation transformed the former hospital to house 144 long-term care beds, 14 hospice beds, primary and specialty care, home- and community-based nursing and personal care services, and offices for various senior citizen organizations.  MetroHealth worked in collaboration with Benjamin Rose Institute, Concordia Care, and the Visiting Nurse Association's Hospice and Palliative Care Partners of Ohio to create the comprehensive senior health center, the first of its kind in the country.