![]() ![]() Select Medical is a health care company with more than 40,000 employees across the United States that specializes in rehab hospitals and long-term acute care.Īll 135 Edwin Shaw employees earlier this year became Select Medical employees and an additional 75 were hired to work at the Bath Township facility, in addition to Cleveland Clinic physicians.Ībout 80 percent of Edwin Shaw patients come directly from Akron General, though the facility will also accept patients from other places, Hall said, adding that most patients stay an average of 14 to 18 days. The three facilities together have 180 rehabilitation beds available. Other facilities are in Avon Lake and Beachwood. The Bath facility will be the third rehabilitation hospital jointly operated in Northeast Ohio by Cleveland Clinic and Select Medical. Brian Harte said the transition of the new facility is not only a literal transition for the patients from the Falls, but a “transition for the Edwin Shaw name and legacy.” Outpatient rehab services which were at the Falls facility, have been moved to the wellness center in Stow and are being renamed the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy center.ĭuring a celebration and tour of the Bath facility Monday evening, Akron General President Dr. It will be renamed Cleveland Clinic Akron General Alcohol and Drug Recovery Center. The new Edwin Shaw will care for patients recovering from stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, amputation, neurological disorders and orthopedic conditions.Ĭleveland Clinic’s outpatient chemical dependency program will remain in a small portion of the rented space in the Falls. The Falls space was a 33,000 square-foot, 34-bed unit in the former psychiatric hospital off state Route 8, which opened as a tuberculosis hospital in 1908.Īkron General first purchased Edwin Shaw Hospital from Summit County in 2005. This gives us the opportunity to bring state-of-the-art equipment and state-of-the-art care,” he said. “While the care has always been great, it’s a much older building. “We’ll have a celebration and a ribbon-cutting for every room” as patients arrive at the brand new facility on state Route 18, next to Cleveland Clinic Akron General’s Health and Wellness Center, he said. Other patients were able to go home before the move, said Geoffrey Hall, chief executive officer of the new facility. The $30 million, 75,000-square- foot facility is a joint venture between Cleveland Clinic and Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Select Medical.įifteen patients who were at the Edwin Shaw facility housed in rented space at the Falls Village Retirement Community - formerly Fallsview Psychiatric Hospital - in Cuyahoga Falls, will be transferred Tuesday to their new temporary home. The new 60-bed Cleveland Clinic Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Hospital will officially open Tuesday morning in Bath Township. ![]()
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