Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio · United States

Cleveland Clinic
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Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, owned and run by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. A group of faculty members and graduates of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine set it up in 1921. Besides its 170-acre main campus, it runs affiliated hospitals and family health centers in Northeast Ohio, hospitals in Florida, a cancer center in Nevada, and sites abroad in Abu Dhabi, Toronto and London.

Newsweek and Statista place Cleveland Clinic No. 3 in World's Best Hospitals 2026, a Top 250 list drawn from more than 2,500 evaluated hospitals that weights patient-reported outcome measures more heavily. Brand Finance, which measures brand strength, ranks it No. 8 in its Global Top 250 Hospitals 2026.

Wikipedia notes that for some twenty years Cleveland Clinic has been regarded as a leader in cardiology and in heart and vascular surgery. In 2024 it reported $15.94 billion in operating revenue, 15.96 million patient visits, 332,991 hospital admissions and a workforce of 82,608. With Case Western Reserve it runs the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, it trains 1,974 residents and fellows in 104 accredited programs, and it publishes the peer-reviewed Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · Newsweek / Statista · Brand Finance

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