Cleveland Clinic

The Cleveland Clinic is a large health care center in Cleveland, Ohio, with approximately 1,300 staff physicians providing for 2 million outpatient visits and 50,000 hospital admissions per year. The Clinic has consistently been ranked among the top five "Best Hospitals in America" by U.S. News and World Report, with particular strengths in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, urology, and gastroenterology; its Heart Center has ranked number one in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery for each of the past nine years. Founded in 1921, the Clinic and its services are administered by the not-for-profit Cleveland Clinic Foundation, which also leads a network of eight affiliated community hospitals in northeastern Ohio.