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Global Center For Health Innovation Officially Opens
Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation is the only facility in the world that displays the future of health and healthcare By John Oncea, editor
Located in Cleveland, OH, the Global Center “serves health and health care innovation, education and commerce through state-of-the-art spaces, programs and virtual offerings while building on the rich heritage and distinctive capability of Northeast Ohio health care.”
The Global Center has 235,000 square feet of space, 100,000 square feet of which is permanent showroom space for tenants such as Cleveland Clinic, GE Healthcare, HIMSS, Hyland Software, MetroHealth Medical Center, Siemens, and STERIS Corporation. Total cost of the project was $465 million.
The Global Center has four themed floors: Health and Home on the first floor, highlighted by the State-of-the-Art Patient Home; People, Patients, and Caregivers on the second floor; Clinical Spaces on the third floor; and Health Care IT on the fourth floor.
The Global Center will open to the public in February, 2014.
Cleveland Clinic’s 2013 Medical Innovation Summit was the first event hosted by the Global Center for Healthcare Innovation.
Visitors to the HIMSS Innovation Center can take part in interactive learning experiences.
HIMSS “holds the keys to the kingdom” and it “probably has more global drawing power” than any other tenant according to CEO Jim Bennett.
HIMSS occupies 30,000 square feet of the fourth floor and is expected to expand into the remaining 6,000 square feet within two years. According to Jim Bennett, CEO of both the Global Center and the Cleveland Convention Center, recruiting HIMSS was a big coup.
The idea to create the Global Center for Health Innovation – at the time called the medical mart – came from Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove following a conversation with a Saudi Arabian sheik 18 years ago.
More than 400 VIPs were on hand for the Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Phase 1 Advance Preview Celebration of the Global Center for Health Innovation.
Located in Cleveland, OH, the Global Center serves health and healthcare innovation, education, and commerce through state-of-the-art spaces, programs, and virtual offerings.
So far, 59 events are confirmed for 2013, 23 health-related events for 2014, and 5 more health-related events for 2015.
Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation is the only facility in the world that displays the future of health and healthcare.
Key players in the development - and future success - of the Global Center for Health Innovations celebrate after the ribbon cutting.
