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LinkedIn now has its own version of celebrities: You can ‘follow’ thought leaders like Obama, Cosgrove

LinkedIn now has its own version of celebrities: You can ‘follow’ thought leaders like Obama, Cosgrove

October 2, 2012 5:21 pm by | 0 Comments

What celebrities are to Facebook, “thought leaders” now are to LinkedIn.The professional networking site has a few noteworthy new users, in the form of thought leaders like President Barack Obama, ... Read more

Even Cleveland Clinic’s CEO feels uncertainty around the impact of healthcare reform

Even Cleveland Clinic’s CEO feels uncertainty around the impact of healthcare reform

July 20, 2012 3:42 pm by | 0 Comments

The Supreme Court may have given us an answer on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, but even the big players are still trying to wrap their heads around ... Read more


Why Toby Cosgrove’s dream of smoke-free Ohio colleges won’t happen anytime soon

Why Toby Cosgrove’s dream of smoke-free Ohio colleges won’t happen anytime soon

June 7, 2012 8:55 am by | 1 Comments

I used to get stuck behind the same smoker every morning when I got off the blue line to walk to work down Chicago’s Lake Avenue.As I choked down smoke ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO could influence Ohio colleges to ban smoking

Cleveland Clinic CEO could influence Ohio colleges to ban smoking

June 4, 2012 9:50 am by | 0 Comments

If Ohio’s public colleges end up outlawing on-campus smoking, frustrated and youthful nicotine addicts wishing for a quick puff between classes should point their fingers squarely in the direction of ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO: It’s appalling college campuses aren’t smoke-free

Cleveland Clinic CEO: It’s appalling college campuses aren’t smoke-free

March 12, 2012 9:56 am by | 4 Comments

Cleveland Clinic stirred up lots of controversy after it announced a ban on hiring tobacco smokers in 2007.Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove just stepped back into the fray, saying he believes ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic negotiating healthcare bundled payments deal with Boeing

Cleveland Clinic negotiating healthcare bundled payments deal with Boeing

March 9, 2012 10:46 am by | 0 Comments

Two years ago, Cleveland Clinic and home-improvement retailer Lowe’s entered into an innovative healthcare deal in which Clinic doctors perform heart surgeries on Lowe’s employees for a bundled payment.Now, the ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Expect us to make more acquisitions in the future

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Expect us to make more acquisitions in the future

February 29, 2012 2:31 pm by | 0 Comments

As it stares down a rapidly consolidating industry, falling reimbursements and a declining population in its home base, Cleveland Clinic must look to acquisitions for growth, CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove ... Read more


Cleveland Clinic Millionaires’ Club adds 2 in 2010, grows to 15 members

Cleveland Clinic Millionaires’ Club adds 2 in 2010, grows to 15 members

December 22, 2011 10:39 am by | 0 Comments

 2010 was a good year to be a member of the Cleveland Clinic Millionaires’ Club – although what year isn’t?The 13 Clinic employees who received more than $1 million in ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Comparative effectiveness will ’chill’ innovation

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Comparative effectiveness will ’chill’ innovation

October 3, 2011 8:00 pm by | 2 Comments

Comparative effectiveness research, one of the key tenets of federal health reform, “seems good on first blush” but will have a chilling effect on medical innovation, Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Proposed ACO rules create ‘significant barriers’

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Proposed ACO rules create ‘significant barriers’

June 2, 2011 11:55 am by | 0 Comments

Dr. Delos “Toby” CosgroveCleveland Clinic‘s chief executive blasted proposed federal rules for accountable care organizations, saying they create “significant barriers” that would discourage hospitals from adopting the new model of ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Intelect Medical sale returned $28M to hospital

Cleveland Clinic CEO: Intelect Medical sale returned $28M to hospital

March 25, 2011 12:01 pm by | 0 Comments

It’s no wonder that Cleveland Clinic has placed an increased emphasis on commercializing medical innovations by its doctors.Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove revealed in a recent interview that the $78 ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO Cosgrove: Health reform will cost us $174M in 2015

Cleveland Clinic CEO Cosgrove: Health reform will cost us $174M in 2015

March 3, 2011 9:58 am by | 0 Comments

In his annual "State of the Clinic" address, Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove said the federal health reform law would cost the hospital $174 million in revenue in ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic Millionaires’ Club added 2 more members in 2009

Cleveland Clinic Millionaires’ Club added 2 more members in 2009

February 8, 2011 1:02 pm by | 5 Comments

Thirteen Cleveland Clinic employees were paid more than $1 million in 2009. CEO Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove's compensation far outpaced that of any other Clinic employee. Cosgrove was paid a ... Read more

Ex-Pittsburgh mayor: Cleveland medical mart a ‘shot in the dark’

Ex-Pittsburgh mayor: Cleveland medical mart a ‘shot in the dark’

December 6, 2010 3:37 pm by | 1 Comments

As Cleveland's $465 million medical mart project inches closer to a groundbreaking, critics still question whether the pricey investment is worth the risk. "It's a shot in the dark in ... Read more

Cleveland Clinic CEO says health reform will increase costs

Cleveland Clinic CEO says health reform will increase costs

October 6, 2010 11:00 am by | 0 Comments

It's too early to tell whether the controversial federal health overhaul package will help or hurt the Cleveland Clinic, but CEO Toby Cosgrove says the new law will increase health ... Read more