UH AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER: 2011 – 2016 Susan V. Juris University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood is celebrating its fifth anniversary in March – not just as a hospital, but as a health-building catalyst in the region. And that busy-ness is not just contained within its walls. A central mission of UH Ahuja Medical Center is to create a healthier environment within the communities around it. At its heart, UH Ahuja Medical Center is always about providing the highest and most personalized care, and the state-of-the-art technology that makes a life-changing difference for patients. To that end, the hospital offers such notable features as minimally invasive surgery with the daVinci® robot; a heart catheterization lab that boasts a 56-minute door-to-balloon time average (while the national average is 90 minutes). UH Ahuja Medical Center also offers 3-D mammography, also known as tomosynthesis, a leading-edge diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer, part of the new comprehensive breast center. In the past five years, UH Ahuja Medical Center has become the provider of simple to complex care for over 100,000 patients residing in the surrounding seven counties of Northeast Ohio. The UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute anchored a comprehensive program that includes diagnostic stress and ECHO tests; electrophysiology and cardiac ablation programs; cardiac catheterization as well as angioplasty; and open heart surgery including bypass and valve replacement procedures. Complex thoracic, foregut and colorectal surgery is also available. In 2015, the Neurological Institute at UH Ahuja Medical Center began to offer treatment for low-risk intracranial hemorrhagic strokes. In addition, UH Ahuja Medical Center has quickly become the region’s leader in orthopaedic surgery including spine, shoulder, ankle, elbow and total joint replacements. But even those who have not been treated at UH Ahuja Medical Center have benefited from its presence. Under Juris’ leadership, the hospital’s community outreach gave free CPR classes to 3,000 people in 2015 alone – and its goal is nothing less than that all high-school seniors in the area graduate knowing CPR. Then there’s the Initiative for Building Lifesaving Communities, which has donated a total of 18 LUCAS devices to surrounding communities. The LUCAS is a state-of-the-art “It’s hard to believe that it has only been five years, when I consider how much we have grown,” says Susan V. Juris, President of UH Ahuja Medical Center. “In this relatively short time, we have gone from being a new medical center to becoming one of the busiest in the region.” 40 Beachwood Buzz n March 2016