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Night Read (Ohio): Lowe's chooses Cleveland Clinic for heart care. Model?

Lowe's Companies Inc. looked at what it was paying for heart treatments across the country and didn't like what it saw, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. So the home-improvement retailer went shopping, choosing the Cleveland Clinic. Could this practice become a model for health care reform?

News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:

Lowe’s Companies Inc. looked at what it was paying for heart treatments across the country and didn’t like what it saw, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. So the home-improvement retailer went shopping, choosing the Cleveland Clinic for valve repairs, coronary bypasses and the like. Could this practice become a model for health care reform?

Ohio ranked eighth nationally in number of premature deaths that could occur because of lack of health coverage, according to consumer health group Families USA. The failure to enact health care reform — and greater coverage — this year could lead in the next decade to about 8,900 premature deaths of people between the ages of 25 and 64 years old in Ohio, according to a group release.

Kettering-based Home Care by Black Stone has acquired the Columbus branch of Personal-Touch Home Care Inc., a Bayside, N.Y.-based company with more than 50 locations nationwide, according to the Dayton Business Journal. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Home Care said the acquisition would boost its client base by about 5 percent and add about 20 employees to its staff of more than 300.

Akron Children’s Hospital is expanding its reach into Cuyahoga County, opening a general pediatrics practice next week in Brecksville, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The office will be the 16th Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrics location throughout Northeast Ohio and the second in Cuyahoga County.

Chiou-Fen Chuang, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and researcher in developmental biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund continuing neurodevelopment research, according to a university release. Chuang was one of 16 neuroscientists nationwide to receive this two-year, $50,000 award.

The first edition of James Toole’s Cerebrovascular Disorders, published in 1967, was the first modern stroke textbook. Now, more than 40 years later and through five editions, a new edition co-authored by Dr. E. Steve Roach, Nationwide Children’s Hospital neurology chief, has been released for both specialists and residents, according to a hospital statement.

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