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Thanks to smart moves, Steris stock on rise By CHUCK SODER csoder@crain.com
Forget about the problems Steris Corp. has had with federal regulators. Investors certainly have. The medical equipment company’s stock price has spent the past four months crushing its previous records. Last Tuesday, Aug. 26, it closed above $56, an all-time high. Why all the excitement? A few months back, didn’t Steris say that it’s going to close the Mentor facto-
ry where it makes the System 1E sterilization system — its bestknown product? Yes, but while Steris was addressing regulatory problems that caused that line of business to lose market share, it was diversifying the rest of its business and making it more efficient. And the fruits of those efforts are starting to show up in the company’s quarterly reports — if you know where to look. Lately, the line item that says how much profit Steris is generat-
ing has been OK, but not amazing. But Steris has been buying companies and restructuring its business — activities that generate big, one-time costs. If you exclude those costs, the picture looks much brighter: Steris’ adjusted earnings hit an all-time high — $147.9 million — during its 2014 fiscal year, which ended on March 31. That equates to $2.48 per share, which easily beats adjusted earnings from past years. And that figure should go up by a lot in fiscal 2015. On average, stock analysts say
Steris’ adjusted earnings should hit $2.86, according to Thomson Reuters. That’s on the high end of guidance provided by Steris. Granted, those earnings will have to keep going up to justify a $56 stock price, but Matt Mishan expects they will. Mishan, an analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets in New York, expects Steris’ adjusted earnings per share to hit $3.24 in fiscal 2016, which ends on March 31 of that year. Why? He said Steris has made
some smart acquisitions that have helped the company diversify after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration forced it to replace its original System 1 endoscope sterilizer in December 2009, saying the company changed the machine too much since the FDA approved it for sale in the 1980s. And many of those acquisitions are recent: Steris has bought four companies since December for a total of about $230 million. Three of them focus on repairing See STERIS, page 20
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“I always thought it would be nice to teach or work in higher education, but I never thought this would happen.� – Thomas G. Kruczek president, Notre Dame College and the region’s business community, inviting local business execs into the classrooms and perhaps even getting them to offer project work to students. While at Lynn, for example, Kruczek launched a career preparation and internship center that created more than 90 regional and national corporate partnerships. He also brought back a CEO lecture series that brings about 24 top executives to campus each year to talk to Lynn’s students.
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There are 27 stories in the Fifth Third Center in downtown Cleveland. A story of a different sort is playing over its ownership. Tier REIT Inc., the building’s Dallas-based owner, is in talks to sell it and the Fifth Third Center office building on Capital Square in Columbus to Los Angeles-based Hertz Investment Group. Sources familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to discuss the Cleveland building at 600 Superior Ave., say Hertz bested other bidders for a two-building portfolio and is negotiating a purchase. “It’s a hell of a play if it comes off,” said one source, who surmises that Hertz may be after both buildings to offer upside to its investors. Both the Cleveland building, with 500,000 square feet of offices, and the Columbus building, with 330,000 square feet on 17 floors, have space to fill. More than 20% of the space in each structure is not leased, realty data provider CoStar reports. The Hertz name first surfaced in Northeast Ohio last month as a prospective buyer for parts of Tower City Center from Forest City Enterprises Inc. Tier REIT, formerly known as
Behringer Harvard Reit I, acquired Fifth Third Center in Cleveland in 2006 for $64 million. Now it seeks to shed the Fifth Third Center building here and in Columbus. The reason is the same one that has Forest City in the market to shed parts of Tower City: the desire to sell properties in secondtier locations to focus instead on a handful of stronger markets. In Tier REIT’s case, it wants to exit seven markets to focus on 12, including Atlanta, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and others, according to information on its website from a second-quarter presentation to analysts and investors. Tier REIT in its second-quarter results issued Aug. 1 disclosed it is marketing the Fifth Third Center buildings in Columbus and Cleveland. Loans on the buildings are due in 2016, Tier REIT said. Scott Fordham, CEO of Tier REIT, said in an Aug. 14 conference call with analysts and investors that the company is working with a buyer for its Cleveland and Cincinnati properties who would assume debt on the properties. He did not identify the prospective buyer. Hertz did not return two calls and an email from Crain’s Cleveland Business about the Fifth Third Center buildings. Kelly Sargent, Tier REITs’ director of investor relations, did not return two phone calls and an email.
Companies are taking a hard look at the latest wage and salary adjustment survey prepared by the Employers Resource Council in Highland Heights as they decide on next year’s pay raises in a still-challenging regional economy. The 145 organizations included in the survey are projecting base pay hikes next year that average 2.9%. The raises range from 2.7% for unionized production workers to 3% for supervisory, management and professional positions. The projections did not vary significantly for manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms, or for large and small companies measured by the number of employees. The annual ERC survey is used by its members to gauge the local labor market when it comes to employee compensation, although each company’s approach to compensation may be different depending on business factors, according to Margaret Brinich, ERC manager of surveys and research. ERC has 1,100 members. “Companies can use the survey to be competitive in paying employees,” Brinich said. She said survey respondents are representative of the Northeast Ohio economy, which provides an advantage over national surveys. In recent years, actual base pay
increases have matched projections. Prior to the economic downturn, it was common for companies to raise pay by amounts that exceeded initial projections. Actual increases this year averaged 2.9%, ERC reports. The survey deals only with base pay and does not include bonuses or merit pay. Almost all of the organizations contacted said they would provide pay increases for at least some job categories next year. There are some organizations, however, that plan to freeze base pay for some employees. For example, 14% of those contacted said there would be no executive base pay increases in 2015. This is down from 16% in last year’s survey. The pay projections are used as a general guide by leaders of diverse organizations, including Steve Peplin, CEO of metalworking company Talan Products Inc. in Cleveland, and Chuck Keiper, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council. Peplin said Talan’s compensation strategy is aimed at attracting motivated workers in a highly competitive metalworking industry that requires strict cost control. Talan does not have an automatic costof-living increase, but it calculates pay raises based on many factors. The company also has in place a profit-sharing plan, with payouts determined at the end of the year. He said business at the 55-em-
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‘Slack’ economy constrains wages Brinich said the survey is especially helpful during periods when the economy is improving or expanding, when retaining the best workers may require more competitive pay. However, national surveys this year have concluded that there is little upward pressure on wages, with the exception of the oil and gas industry. National surveys are projecting base pay hikes in 2015 at an average of 3%. Local economist Jack Kleinhenz has described the job market as patchy.
“At the national level, some of the faster growing industries are energy and technology. We have some of both but not as concentrated as other regions,” Kleinhenz said. He added that “there is slack in the economy and thus modest wage growth.” National experts point to 4% wage growth in oil and gas. But most of the gains tied to Ohio’s Utica shale development have so far been concentrated in the eight counties along the eastern border with Pennsylvania. New York management consulting firm the Hay Group cites lower projected wage increases in the hospital industry. Hay Group projects 2% increases next year for hospital workers. Heather Phillips, senior director of corporate communications for the Cleveland Clinic, Northeast Ohio’s largest employer, said, “We are currently in our budgeting process for 2015 and haven’t make any decisions regarding this yet.” The tepid economic recovery cited by consultants such as the Hay Group is evident locally. Although the numbers have improved since the bottom of the business cycle, total private-sector employment in Cuyahoga County stood at 624,283 in the fourth quarter last year, down slightly from the 627,688 in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
The KeyBank shuffle has begun. Through the first half of 2014, roughly 550 Key employees moved from the Higbee Building in downtown Cleveland out to the bank’s campus on Tiedeman Road near Interstate 480. Now another 650 Key employees are in the process of moving from Key Tower to the Higbee Building. And then most of its employees at Key Tower will be shuffled around so that the bank can seriously reduce the amount of space it uses in the building — one of the more expensive places to rent office space in Cleveland. When all is said and done, 4,000 of Key’s 5,000 local corporate employees will have moved, if only to another location on the same floor, according to Kane Kretzinger, who heads up the real estate team at Key. “Almost everyone’s been impacted by the project,” he said. The $46 million grand plan was put in writing in April 2013, when Key signed a lease agreeing to stay at Key Tower for another 15 years. But that lease is much smaller than the previous one. Key leases 25 floors today, but that will drop to 14 floors when the new lease begins on July 1, 2015. The bank aims to get rid of space it doesn’t use — some of it is subleased to other companies — and move some employees into less expensive office buildings. And even the people who don’t change buildings in many cases will sit closer to their colleagues.
Making moves Key is one of many companies that are moving people closer together to save money and encourage collaboration. The bank’s space at Key Tower and the two buildings it owns on Tiedeman Road hadn’t been remodeled since they were built in the 1990s. And back then, employees were typically separated by larger amounts of space and higher cubicles. “When you walk through an office floor, you can’t find anyone,” Kretzinger said. Thus, Key spent $20 million making three floors at 4910 Tiedeman Road “a lot brighter, a lot more open,” he said. The third floor of Key Tower is under construction now, and the fifth floor is next. The tower’s owner, Columbia Property Trust of Atlanta, agreed to cover $16 million of work at the building, so long as Key helped the Atlanta-based company fill the floors it is leaving. Some of that space is now spoken for: The law firm Baker Hostetler plans to move part of its staff from PNC Center to Key Tower, taking over five floors. So which Key employees are moving where? People who meet with clients — like those in corporate banking and See KEYBANK, page 20
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While a lot of Ohioans were waiting for drilling to take off in the Utica shale, Beachwood resident Michael Friedman already was cashing in on the new boom in high-volume, slick-water, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as it’s commonly known. He just had to go to North Dakota to do it. Friedman has been working the big Bakken shale play in the Dakotas, and he said he’s finding more opportunities as he expands the scope of his activities. While Friedman originally focused on building and renting out housing for oilfield workers, he’s now also brokering deals and arranging financing for other developers in the region. “Three years ago, I went to the Bakken on a referral to help a friend raise some money to do a residential development,� Friedman said. “We ended up buying it and calling it the Grand Bakken Lodge. That was the start of my career there.� If Friedman’s name sounds familiar, there’s good reason. He’s known to hard-core area sports fans and pizza connoisseurs alike, first for his stint as a basketball coach at Case Western Reserve University and Dyke College in the 1980s, and then for his ownership of several Captain Tony’s pizza shops in and around Cleveland. But he says nothing has kept him as busy as the Bakken shale. Friedman’s Grand Bakken Lodge turned into a 30-unit housing development for oilfield workers. While it’s not a Ritz-Carlton — or even a luxury apartment complex, by most standards — it was a far cry from and leagues above the so-called “man camps� available to many rig workers. Instead of the barracks-style living of the man camps, where sometimes dozens of workers roomed together under a single roof, Grand Bakken offered individual, 300-square-foot cabins with their own kitchens, laundry facilities, bathrooms and sleeping quarters.
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Friedman said his plan was to expand the project to 800 units. He secured $30 million in financing in 2011 from New York investors and lease commitments from North Dakota drillers, but then his partners got cold feet and the deal was abandoned. But Friedman had been bitten; the Bakken was too big and too good an opportunity to turn away from, he said. And he’d already learned an awful lot about the needs of oil and gas drillers, and how to capitalize on those needs in North Dakota. First, he saw the demand for housing first hand, as he watched the town of Watford City, N.D., struggle to cope with the rapid influx of new oil rig workers. “When I started (in 2012), Watford City had 1,300 residents,� Friedman
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said. “Now they’re up to 13,000.� Oil workers fill every hotel for a hundred miles or more, he said, even though the nightly rates have risen to $175. Others fill the man camps, while the most unlucky often sleep in their cars in a Wal-Mart parking lot, specially set up for that purpose at night. “About 2,500 people a night would line up at 10:30,� he said. “They’d let 2,500 cars in and they would sleep there.� He also learned that oil companies were willing to pay for housing. They just couldn’t find it. “We had tremendous demand,� Friedman said. “Hess Oil had a terrific need for housing, and they couldn’t fill it. All of the oil companies became tired of their people staying in man camps. It’s a terrible quality of life.�
Hitting the ATM So, when Friedman offered Hess cabins for its workers — even at $3,000 a month in rent for a small unit — they didn’t balk, or even blink. Then, he learned how profitable it all could be. It cost about $50,000 to build, haul in, furnish and set up a pre-fabricated cabin, Friedman said. But, at the $3,000-a-month rent level, they pay for themselves in about 18 months. “After that, it’s just like going to the ATM every month,� said Friedman, who added that while the generally young workers did put some wear and tear on the units, it was minimal compared to his revenues. Friedman also learned something that his strength in the region was being able to network with oil companies working in the shale, developers looking for ways to finance their shale-related projects, and outof-state investors looking for a way to put their money into the nation’s shale boom. So Friedman kept his 30 units and
his deal with Hess, sold off the 80 acres he had set aside for more units, and started looking for opportunities as a deal broker. Now, he said he raises millions for other housing and commercial developments in the region, usually tapping hedge funds and family investment groups from New York, Philadelphia and California. Friedman continues to cultivate new clients, including drilling companies looking for housing and developers looking for finance, real estate, or both. One such developer has been Paul Dries of Louisville, Ky., who now spends about three weeks per month in North Dakota working on real estate developments. His company, Bakken Development Solutions, specializes in buying land and preparing it for commercial development by installing water, sewage, electrical lines and, in some cases, even roads. He’s found both buyers and financing through Friedman, he said. “Mike has been an important source of introduction to various people in the region for us,� Dries said. “He has done a good job of creating relationships within the Bakken, and then taking the relationships he has formed over the years in his real estate endeavors and connecting people who might have like-minded interests.� For example, when Dries had for sale a 20-acre site in Watford City that was ready for development, Friedman introduced him to a multifamily real estate development company that was looking for a place to build. Dries sold them the property, which now is the site of more than 300 new housing units, he said.
Most everyone knows his name According to Dries, Friedman is part real estate agent, part dealmaker and part local celebrity — at least among the highly interconnected drilling and development crowd. “If you went into a restaurant (in Watford City), there is a good chance that someone is in that restaurant that Mike would know,â€? Dries said. “Maybe more than one, maybe four or five — but there would be at least one.â€? Friedman said he gets a commission on each sale he helps set up or each round of financing he facilitates. He also gets a small ownership stake in most of the real estate transactions he shepherds. While he won’t disclose what he’s making from the work, Friedman said it’s the best business opportunity he’s ever found. He also says it’s not about to end anytime soon, which is one reason he’s willing to be paid, in part, with small equity positions in Bakken developments. “They say they’ll need 79,000 wells to fully tap the Bakken, and they have 6,000 wells drilled so far,â€? Friedman said. “You do the math. ‌ This so-called ‘boom’ is not going to be over anytime soon, probably not in my lifetime.â€?
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Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild, Plain Dealer settle dispute By JAY MILLER jmiller@crain.com
The Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild said it has settled a labor dispute that likely will protect its status — at least for five years. In a grievance filed with the National Labor Relations Board last December, the union that represents journalists and some editors at The Plain Dealer complained that the terms of its labor contract were unilaterally changed by management last summer in a way that reduced the size of the guild bargaining unit below an agreed-upon threshold. The union added that if the action by management was allowed to stand, it threatened further erosion of the union’s membership at The PD. The settlement focused on the question of whether the news that appears in The PD, the Sun newspapers and on cleveland.com is produced by one employer or by two separate employers. In April 2013, Advance Publications, the New York City newspaper publisher that owns all three media outlets, announced that it would end seven-day home delivery and lay off one-third of The PD’s newsroom staff. The new focus of the
Cleveland operation would be on digital news delivered via cleveland.com, which is nonunion. It would be part of a newly created company, the Northeast Ohio Media Group. Advance is making similar transformations in the other 30 cities where it has daily newspapers, as advertisers and readers flee newspapers for digital media. However, Cleveland is an anomaly for Advance; the company’s newsrooms are largely nonunion. So, unlike in those other cities, the restructuring in Cleveland has to adhere to the terms of a contract with the Newspaper Guild that runs until 2019. The NLRB complaint was triggered when, on July 31 last year, The PD laid off 47 guild members in its 150-person newsroom. Seven-day home delivery ended on the following Monday, Aug. 5. While The PD continues to be available seven days a week on newsstands and in news boxes, home delivery was cut to four days a week — Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Those layoffs were anticipated in a labor agreement with the guild that runs until Feb. 28, 2019. “We were supposed to have 110
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members,” said Rollie Dreussi, executive secretary of the guild unit. “Then 14 people went over to the (nonunion) Northeast Ohio Media Group.” The guild said that by luring the 14 guild members to leave the union newsroom, reducing guild membership below the agreedupon 110-employee threshold, management violated the labor contract. Dreussi said it was management’s position that the two were separate companies and the reporters were just accepting jobs with a new employer. The guild contended the two companies were a single employer. Virginia Wang, general manager of Plain Dealer Publishing Co., declined via email to comment for this story. In making the announcement of the reorganization in April 2013, NEOMG was described as overseeing the website, the Sun newspapers and the marketing and business operations of The PD. It would partner with the existing Plain Dealer Publishing to produce news and information in both print and electronic formats, the story said. However, at other times it has been described as having greater control over the news operation. An
unbylined Nov. 25, 2013, story on cleveland.com described NEOMG as “a digitally focused company that is responsible for editorial content, advertising sales and marketing for cleveland.com, The Plain Dealer and the Sun newspapers.” Since those announcements, Advance has also moved its union and nonunion newsroom employees into separate buildings. In March, PD news employees moved from the building at 1801 Superior Ave. called Plain Dealer Plaza, to new office space in Skylight Office Tower at Tower City. Cleveland.com and Sun employees this summer moved to 1801 Superior from an office in the Flats, joining NEOMG’s marketing and business staff. A small number of Plain Dealer Publishing editorial employees responsible for the print product relocated to the PD printing plant on Tiedeman Road in Brooklyn, where the Teamsters and the printers who produce the newspaper also work. The grievance was set to be heard by the NLRB on Aug. 19, but the settlement was signed Aug. 8. Dreussi said copies of the settlement would not be available until it is accepted by the NLRB.
In a press release, the union said the settlement delays five layoffs from the Guild unit that were due to occur after Jan. 1, 2015, until Oct. 1, 2015. The release also said that NEOMG will be able to hire 10 additional PD newsroom staff. After that, The PD would be required to hire a new union employee for every employee who moves from The PD to NEOMG. That would reduce the bargaining unit to about 80 members. “Regular attrition would also reduce our numbers,” Dreussi said. The settlement also requires the guild to recognize NEOMG as a separate employer. The guild has been in a defensive position at the bargaining table for some time, as the newspaper business has deteriorated. The current contract, approved by members in December 2012, restored most of a 12% pay cut agreed to in 2009. Management also agreed to contribute more to health and pension plans. But the deal freed Advance from a no-layoff pledge. That allowed the company to reduce the size of PD newsroom staff from 168 to 110 and allowed it to more freely mingle news stories produced by The PD and Cleveland.com staffs.
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A new way Corporate Cleveland knows that summer is melting into fall when the United Way kicks off its annual fundraising campaign in late August or early September by flipping pancakes on Public Square. But this year, United Way flipped its game plan. No pancakes on Public Square. And for the first time in 100 years, no stated goal for its fundraising campaign. It’s a sign that times are changing for the United Way, just as they are for many Northeast Ohio businesses. We are in an era of innovation, and companies must embrace that or be left behind. United Way — an organization that had done things the same way for decades — realizes that. Embracing change goes for nonprofits, too. So last Thursday, instead of stacking up pancakes for downtown office workers, more than 300 United Way volunteers served breakfast to 8,500 students in 17 Cleveland schools. “It’s about the kids, not about the pancakes,” said Bill Kitson, president and CEO of the United Way of Greater Cleveland, who in his short time in Cleveland has adopted a “you see what you get” style. No need for coating the message in syrup. It’s about kids, yes, and it’s also about an agency in United Way that has tightened its focus on the most pressing needs in Cuyahoga County: education, income and health. Earlier this year, the United Way of Greater Cleveland decided that to move the needle on community needs and really make progress in solving its problems, the organization needed to change how it was distributing the discretionary dollars it raises. The agency explains in its promotional materials, “We have come to realize that spreading resources a mile wide and an inch deep will not achieve the change our community deserves.” To ensure it had the greatest impact, the United Way decided to fund only agencies active and effective in the three areas it is focusing on. That meant that this year, the agency invested in 70 fewer programs than in the last three-year funding cycle. The 132 agencies that do get funding will address the most urgent education, income and health needs in our community. United Way also has committed funding to a partnership with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to expand its “wraparound schools” concept, which strives to address students’ needs outside the classroom and remove barriers to learning. The agency is deserving of the support it receives, but it is not getting caught up in a public fundraising goal this year, and it’s not flipping pancakes in Public Square, either. It’s rolling up its sleeves to help serve up what’s needed to produce the next generation of healthy, smart, productive Clevelanders. Without that, we’re toast.
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Making sense of millennials The oldest millennials — who are now sell to this gigantic generation of about just over 30 — are still young enough to 80 million. Problem is, the millennials get carded. Their generation’s influence are often more sophisticated than the on all our lives, however, needs no ID. marketing. Campaigns targeting them Their attitudes and priorities about frequently appear contrived and even their careers, their involvement in their lame. Earlier this summer, McDonald’s communities, where they live, posted sponsored photos on how they communicate and Instagram (it’s where the kids socialize, where they get inforare!) of two young women mation, what they eat and holding Bacon Clubhouse generally what’s important burgers with the caption have shifted the earth below “Tonight.Was.Epic.” Comall of our feet. menters had a free-for-all. One In just what they buy, milwrote: “I got diabetes just lennials are throwing a mug of looking at this.” microbrew in the face of conLike all generations, millenvention. Over the past few nials are a complex group to weeks, we’ve learned that JOHN define, understand and serve. sales of such traditional prod- CAMPANELLI The lives of these young ucts as breakfast cereal, oradults have run parallel to the ange juice, Jell-O, even hamburgers at evolution of personal technology, and McDonald’s are tanking, largely because the two have fed — and fed off — each of the habits of young people. other. In many ways, older people find We know about the generation’s averthe millennial generation just as puzsion to landline phones, cable television zling (and intimidating) as all the gadand homes in the suburbs. They also are gets that grew up alongside them. eschewing golf, bread, diet pop, yellow Many older folks can’t understand cabs, mass-market beer, life insurance why this group seems to be less eager to and lottery tickets. climb the corporate ladder, more willing Marketers wring their hands trying to to make every day casual Friday and per-
fectly OK with switching employers every couple years. And don’t even get them started on the selfie culture or that texting-instead-of-calling thing. Millennials will chime in that studies and surveys have shown they are more engaged in their community, more charitable, more collaborative at work, that they value diversity, better food and a work-life balance that allows them to play just as hard as they work. One thing no one can argue is that millennials have forced a change in how many of us recruit, hire and nurture employees. We are thinking more about the culture of our workplace. That’s a good thing. Like every generation, the millennials have given us wonderful things (food trucks that serve mac and cheese) and horrifying things (hipster waxed moustaches). Their time will end up being not completely good or completely bad. It will be different. And different is good. The truth is the earth probably only seems like its shifting under our feet. Millennials are more like all of us than we think. They may have ditched orange juice and cereal, but they haven’t gone too crazy. Bacon sales are still rising.
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Sunken ship not a laughing matter This is in response to the cartoon published in the Aug. 25 edition of Crain’s Cleveland Business that attempts to analogize the sinking of the former S/S Edmund Fitzgerald with the demise of the politician Ed FitzGerald’s political campaign. Having personally worked in the maritime industry of the Great Lakes for the past 36-plus years, and for eight of those years employed with Oglebay Norton Co., the former manager of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I found this cartoon very disturbing, to say the least. Further, many of us in the Cleveland area who have earned and continue to earn our living moving cargo on the Great Lakes were appalled by this editorial cartoon, which
demonstrated unbelievable insensitivity to not only the memory of those who perished in the tragedy, but to their families. The sinking of the S/S Edmund Fitzgerald on Nov. 10, 1975, was an immense, catastrophic tragedy that resulted in the loss of all 29 souls aboard and the emotional devastation of not only their loved ones but also their maritime brothers and sisters in and around the Great Lakes. Such a sudden and unexplainable (to this day) loss of life was heart-wrenching and caused immense pain and suffering to the survivors and maritime colleagues of the deceased. The Fitzgerald is a grave, not a vehicle for political commentary or selling beer,
and it should be treated with the respect due to the final resting place of its crew. Finally, for your business paper to publish a political cartoon premised upon this horrible event is to mock the memory of those lost and again demonstrates a gross insensitivity to the tremendous heartache their loved ones have endured for many years. Further, it shows your complete lack of comprehension and appreciation of the special and strong human bond that binds all Great Lakes mariners who continue to serve us today. — Mark J. Rohn President, Grand River Navigation Co., Avon Lake
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We deserve better web options By LEV GONICK
Don’t you love your cable guy, even if he now looks a lot like Coach Cowher? Beyond the hype, the story of our broadband future along the North Coast is not as rosy as you might think. While Crain’s Cleveland Business got the story, the prospects of the very big, but not well understood, news about Charter Communications taking over household and business Internet services in Ohio begs the question of whether we’re just chopped liver out here along Lake Erie. I’ll cut to the chase. While lots of promises are being made in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, if one digs a little deeper, we in Cleveland are unlikely to see the benefits. We should demand better, we deserve better and we can do better. Akamai has just published its most recent State of the Internet and reports that year-over-year changes across the country were generally positive, with only Ohio and Vermont seeing lower peak access speeds. Sadly, Ohio placed lowest in the country. In data available through Ookla’s Net Index, Cleveland’s household broadband speeds are the lowest in the state. Every day, we hear that the incumbent cable and telephone companies are investing billions in better networks. If you follow the issue of Internet choice being debated at the FCC, this is the refrain used by lobbyists for the incumbents to exorcise any chance that regulators and legislators might embrace local Internet choice. After all, the argument goes, the incumbents are spending more money and are better run than any local Internet operator. On the basis of this logic, in February the nation’s largest cable company, Comcast, went after and filed to acquire the No. 2 cable provider, Time Warner Cable. Comcast EVP David Cohen put it best. “Sometimes big is a bad thing. ‌ But sometimes big is really important, really necessary and really good. And that would
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Gonick is CEO and co-founder of OneCommunity, a nonprofit provider of ultra-high-speed broadband services and programs. tend to be in high capital expenditure industries ‌ And that is our industry‌. The rationale for this transaction is all about scale. We are going to get bigger.â€? You might conclude that the country in general and Northeast Ohio in particular might well be served by bigger cable companies. After all, the only way to justify this is because a whole bunch of new critically important investment is going to be spent in Comcast’s new geography to bring businesses and households the absolute latest and greatest. But then a funny thing happened. The new Comcast would own 40% of the market. That market share set off a flurry of concerns about anti-competitiveness. So Comcast pivoted and offered to divest itself of certain regions and swap others out. Enter Charter Communications. To buy off potential critics of the deal, Comcast offered Charter Communications some of the spoils of Time Warner Cable’s old properties, including Ohio. And to be sure that the regulators don’t ask about collusion or other uncomfortable questions, the property swaps will, where it is convenient, create a new venture called “SpinCoâ€? with equity from both Charter and Comcast. So the message to Northeast Ohio is that while we didn’t get Comcast and all their big investment dollars that justified the acquisition of Time Warner Cable in the first place, don’t worry because we’re going to get assurances for all that critical new digital investment from Charter Communications. We have preserved competition in the market and Charter will quickly match Comcast’s initial investment commitments. Uh, wrong. Just when we got LeBron James back, we’re about to lose the provider best poised to win
the Internet. Setting aside the public posturing to politicians and regulators, what Charter tells investors and analysts is revealing. Charter Communications CFO Christopher Winfrey noted in his comments to analysts on the Q2 2014 earning call, â€œâ€Śwe expect lower overall capital as a percentage of revenue. ‌ (W)e believe those systems, which represent 50% of the new Charter, can develop and grow in a similar trajectory to Charter over the past two years with less capital intensity.â€? Translation: None of the public interest benefits that Comcast is promising in those communities where it takes over the management of Time Warner systems will occur when Charter takes over. In reality, there is no competition, and therefore there is no market logic to drive Charter to invest in this marketplace. But surely city halls in Northeast Ohio can require guarantees from Charter? Doesn’t anyone in Ohio have any regulatory muscle to get some dispensation? Something? Throw us a bone? Business leaders and city officials in other states are beginning to raise their voices, submit filings to the FCC and call for hearings. But right now, the light is on the ComcastTime Warner Cable deal and relatively little on the Charter Communications. Northeast Ohio can sit back and look forward to all the glossy collateral and new TV ads with someone other than Coach Cowher telling us about promotions and unbelievable new services that are going to come from our new favorite cable Internet provider. We could also consider alternatives. Join the effort to get commitments, or at least public meetings, from Charter Communications. Continue to support local Internet choice as a viable alternative to our digital infrastructure futures. At least, in that scenario, we know where to send our email missives on how much we enjoy our data and entertainment services.
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A plastics market veteran is working with an investment firm and a research foundation to help commercialize polymer technology in Ohio. “We’re going to select the investments that have the best possible chance to win,” Michael Rademacher said at an Aug. 20 event for potential investors in Akron. “And we’ll put the right team in place to do some heavy lifting.” Rademacher retired in 2012 from Avon Lake-based PolyOne Corp., where he had run that firm’s $1 billion resin distribution unit. He had been with PolyOne since 2000 and had spent more than 30 years in the plastics and polymers field. Now, Rademacher is a partner with Acquire Investments LLC, an Akron-based investment firm. Acquire is working with the University of Akron Research Foundation to create the Global Polymeric Materials Technology Commercialization Fund. The fund already has raised almost $11 million — including $5 million from a Chinese investor — and needs to raise a total of $20 million by the end of the year in order to apply for a program in which the state of Ohio would match half of that
funding with its own investment. In other words, that $20 million would immediately become $30 million. “The state wants for-profit investors,” Acquire managing partners William Manby Jr. said at the event. “It wants jobs, companies and a tax base.” Those matching funds — if approved — will come from Ohio Third Frontier, a state technology development program that is investing more than $2 billion in Ohio businesses. Northeast Ohio is fertile soil for polymer commercialization, Manby added, since 1,800 of the state’s 2,400 polymer companies are based there. The region is home to top polymer science programs at the University of Akron and Case Western Reserve University, as well as medical polymer research efforts at University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic. The challenge comes in finding a way to get promising new polymer technology into the markets it wants to serve. Entrepreneurs can spend 60% to 70% of their time trying to raise money, instead of spending that time operating their companies, Acquire managing partner Mark Krohn said at the event. “How do we put these amazing
things in similar pieces together?” he asked. “We can pair this polymer technology with capital that’s ready, willing and able to be deployed immediately.” The University of Akron Research Foundation brings plenty of commercializing experience to the Acquire effort. Since 2001, the foundation has spun out 54 companies, with almost half of those in the polymers field, president and CEO George Newkome said at the event. More than 30 of those then have received follow-on funding of more than $550 million. Companies that UARF supports also have created almost 500 jobs in Ohio. Polymer spinoffs funded by the UARF include specialty resins and coatings producer Akron Polymer Systems, plastics-to-oil firm RES Polyflow and AxioMed Spine Corp., a maker of artificial spinal and lumbar discs. APS and RES Polyflow are based in Akron, while AxioMed is based in Cleveland. Rademacher said that although he is a Wisconsin native who now lives in Atlanta, he spent most of his professional career in Ohio and still sees a lot of promise there. “There have been too many companies that have left Ohio, and there’s no reason for it,” he said. “I’m glad to be part of this effort.”
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HEALTH CARE DIRECTORY A COMPLETE GUIDE TO NORTHEAST OHIO’S HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
FOR MORE DETAILED LISTINGS, INCLUDING A SEARCHABLE DATABASE, VISIT: WWW.CRAINSCLEVELAND.COM/SECTION/HCD
ADDICTION SERVICES COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT & TREATMENT SERVICES INC. 8411 Broadway Ave. Cleveland 44105 (216) 441-0200 www.communityassessment.org Top Executive: Roxanne Wallace GLENBEIGH AND GLENBEIGH OUTPATIENT CENTERS 2863 state Route 45 Rock Creek 44084 (800) 234-1001 www.glenbeigh.com Top Executive: Pat Weston-Hall LORAIN COUNTY ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC. 2115 W. Park Drive Lorain 44053 (440) 989-4900 www.lcada.com Top Executive: Thomas D. Stuber NEW DESTINY TREATMENT CENTER 6694 Taylor Road Clinton 44216 (330)825-5202 www.newdestinytc.org Top Executive: Dr. Robert W. Bolois NEW DIRECTIONS INC. 30800 Chagrin Blvd. Cleveland 44124 (216)591-0324 www.newdirect.org Top Executive: Mike Matoney OAKVIEW BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER 18697 Bagley Road Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-8200 www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden RECOVERY RESOURCES 3950 Chester Ave. Cleveland 44114-4625 (216) 431-4131 www.recres.org Top Executive: Debora A. Rodriguez ROSARY HALL AT ST. VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER 2351 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 363-2580 www.stvincentcharity.com Top Executive: David F. Perse, M.D.
ASSOCIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL GROUPS ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF CLEVELAND & NORTHERN OHIO 6100 Oak Tree Blvd., Suite 440 Cleveland 44131 (216) 520-1000
www.amcno.org Top Executive: Elayne R. Biddlestone AKRON REGIONAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION 3200 W. Market St., Suite 200 Akron 44333 (330) 873-1500 www.arha.org Top Executive: Sarah M. Metzger ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION CLEVELAND AREA CHAPTER 23215 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 300 Beachwood 44122 (216) 342-5556 www.alz.org/cleveland Top Executive: Nancy B. Udelson AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, NORTH REGION 10501 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (888) 227-6446 www.cancer.org Top Executive: Sarah Wells AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION 4500 Rockside Road, Suite 440 Independence 44131 (216) 328-9989 www.diabetes.org Top Executive: Jill Pupa AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, CLEVELAND METRO 1689 E. 115th St. Cleveland 44106 (216) 791-7500 www.heart.org/cleveland Top Executive: Amanda Rowe AMERICAN HOLISTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 27629 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 206 Woodmere 44122 (216) 292-6644 www.holisticmedicine.org Top Executive: Steve L. Cadwell ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION, GREAT LAKES REGION, NORTHEASTERN OHIO 4630 Richmond Road, Suite 240 Cleveland 44128 (216) 285-2836 www.arthritis.org/ohio/neo.php Top Executive: Darby Bentoff Schwartz CENTER FOR HEALTH AFFAIRS 1226 Huron Road East Cleveland 44115 (216) 696-6900 www.chanet.org Top Executive: Bill Ryan CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC. 127 Hazelwood Ave. Barberton 44203 (800) 791-6225 www.christianhealthcareministries.org Top Executive: Rev. Howard S. Russell
CLEVELAND EYE BANK 6700 Euclid Ave., Suite 101 Cleveland 44103 (216) 706-4220 www.clevelandeyebank.org Top Executive: Debbie J. May-Johnson EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION 2831 Prospect Ave. Cleveland 44115 (216) 579-1330 www.epilepsyinfo.org Top Executive: Kelley S. Needham FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA SOCIETY OF AMERICA 20325 Center Ridge Road, Suite 360 Rocky River 44116 (216) 834-2410 www.fmdsa.org Top Executive: Pamela Mace HEALTH ACTION COUNCIL OHIO 6133 Rockside Road Independence 44131 (216) 328-2200 www.healthactioncouncil.org Top Executive: Patty Starr HIMSS 1 Saint Clair Ave., NE Cleveland 44114 (216) 416-6228 www.himssinnovationcenter.org Top Executive: John Paganini OHIO LEAGUE FOR NURSING 20545 Center Ridge Road, Suite 205 Rocky River 44116 (440) 331-2721 www.ohioleaguefornursing.org Top Executive: Jane F. Mahowald SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY 526 Superior Ave. East, Suite 540 Cleveland 44114 (216) 579-9300 www.sidnet.org Top Executives: Rebecca Minnillo, D.M.; Jim Rumsey
BIOSCIENCE BIOENTERPRISE CORP. 11000 Cedar Ave., Suite 100 Cleveland 44106 (216) 658-3999 www.bioenterprise.com Top Executive: Aram Nerpouni NEUROS MEDICAL INC. 35010 Chardon Road, Suite 210 Willoughby Hills 44094 (440) 951-2565 www.neurosmedical.com Top Executive: Jon Snyder THERMEDX LLC 31200 Solon Road, Unit 1 Solon 44139 (440) 542-0883
www.thermedx.com Top Executive: Douglas L. Carr
DENTISTS — DENTAL GROUPS AKRON DENTAL CONCEPTS 1000 S. Cleveland-Massillon Road, Suite 13 Fairlawn 44333 (330) 666-7440 www.akrondentalconcepts.com Top Executive: Stephanie Aldrich, D.D.S. DR. ANGELO NASCA D.D.S. 2785 S. Arlington Road Akron 44312 (330) 644-0127 www.angelonascadds.com Top Executive: Dr. Angelo Nasca, D.D.S. DR. WENDY A. SYNENBERG & THE AWARD WINNING SMILE SQUAD 8224 Mentor Ave., Suite 142 Mentor 44060 (440) 974-4449 www.drwendy.com Top Executive: Dr. Wendy Synenberg JENNIFER G. ROBB, D.M.D. 1612 Cooper Foster Park Road Lorain 44053 (440) 960-1940 www.drjrobb.com Top Executive: Dr. Jennifer G. Robb JOEL M. SALON, D.D.S., M.D. 34501 Aurora Road, Suite 301 Solon 44139 (440) 248-9097 Top Executive: Dr. Joel M. Salon JOHN D. SUGLIO D.D.S. INC. 512 S. Main St. North Canton 44720 (330) 499-4403 www.jsugliodds.com Top Executive: John D. Suglio MICHAEL A. BLUM D.D.S. 55 S. Miller Road, Suite 102 Akron 44333 (330) 836-8050 www.drmichaelablumdentistry.com Top Executive: Michael A. Blum SAINT LUKE’S DENTAL ASSOCIATES 11201 Shaker Blvd., Suite 136 Cleveland 44104 (216) 368-7238 www.stvincentcharity.com Top Executive: David F. Perse, M.D. STREETSBORO DENTAL 1727 Streetsboro Plaza Streetsboro 44241 (330) 626-3814 www.streetsborodental.com
Top Executive: Dr. Jeff Rosenthal STRONGSVILLE CENTER FOR COSMETIC AND IMPLANT DENTISTRY 11925 Pearl Road, Suite 206 Strongsville 44136 (440) 238-1555 www.drweiser.com Top Executive: Richard S. Weiser THOMAS & ASSOCIATES D.D.S. 1421 Portage St. N.W. North Canton 44720 (330) 494-2111 www.thomas-dental.com Top Executive: Michael L. Thomas WEST CHESTER DENTISTRY INC. 1575 Vernon Odom Boulevard Akron 44241 (330) 753-7734 www.akronfamilydental.com Top Executive: Dr. Jeff Rosenthal
EDUCATION CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY 2121 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44115 (216) 687-2569 www.csuohio.edu/engineering/ chemical/ CPROHIO 4760 Grayton Road, Suite 3 Cleveland 44135 (216) 251-0747 www.cprohio.com Top Executive: Katherine M. Grega DIABETES PARTNERSHIP OF CLEVELAND 3601 S. Green Road, Suite 100 Cleveland 44122 (216) 591-0800 www.diabetespartnership.org Top Executive: Tina Milano PROJECT T.E.A.C.H. INC. 1134 Hillrock Drive Cleveland 44121 (216) 382-5875 www.projectteach.com Top Executive: Frances M. Burrows
FITNESS AND WELLNESS AKRON GENERAL HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTERS 4125 Medina Road Akron 44333 (330) 665-8005 www.akrongeneral.org Top Executive: Doug Ribley AOK! FITNESS LTD. 12381 Pearl Road Strongsville 44136 (440) 539-6324
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BODY SCULPTING BY EXTERIOR DESIGNS INC. P.O. Box 267 Chagrin Falls 44022 (440) 729-3463 www.flexcity.com Top Executive: Deborah Montesanto BODY TECHNIC SYSTEMS INC. 33790 Bainbridge Road, Suite 205 Solon 44139 (440) 248-9255 www.bodytechnic.com Top Executive: Sunday Homitz BRAVO WELLNESS LLC 20445 Emerald Parkway Drive SW, Suite 400 Cleveland 44135 (877) 662-7286 www.bravowell.com Top Executive: Jim Pshock THE CENTER FOR HEALTH & FITNESS AT UH AVON HEALTH CENTER 1997 Healthway Drive Avon 44011 (440) 988-6801 www.emhfitness.org Top Executive: Brad Calabrese CHAGRIN FITNESS 27629 Chagrin Blvd., Suites 108/109 Woodmere 44122 (216) 464-2350 www.chagrinfit.com Top Executives: John Palsa, Jeff Palsa CLEVELAND CLINIC WELLNESS INSTITUTE 1950 Richmond Road Lyndhurst 44124 (877) 331-9355 http://my.clevelandclinic.org/ wellness/default.aspx Top Executive: Michael F. Roizen, M.D. CONQUEST 3601 Green Road, Suite 210 Beachwood 44122 (216) 371-9301 www.donnanowak.com Top Executive: Donna R. Nowak CORRECT BREATHING CONCEPTS LLC 7097 Brightwood Drive Concord 44077 (440) 357-5834 www.correctbreathing.com Top Executive: Carol Baglia
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CROOKED RIVER T’AI CHI AND MASSAGE THERAPY CENTER 5921 Broadview Road Parma 44134 (216) 410-7645 www.crookedrivertaichi.com Top Executives: Janet L. Venditti, Jim M. Holz CROSSFIT CLEVELAND 1211 Allen Court Rocky River 44116 (440) 356-1510 www.crossfitcleveland.com Top Executive: Staci Russell ERGONOMICALLY CORRECT LLC P.O. Box 30089 Cleveland 44130 (216) 676-6884 www.ergocorrect.com Top Executive: David C. Pfeil
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS, A THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE STUDIO 7055 Engle Road, Suite 401 Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 826-1100 www.essentialelementsmassage.com Top Executive: Natalie Rumbaugh FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL WELLNESS CENTER 3035 Wooster Road Rocky River 44116 (440) 356-0670 www.fairviewhospital.org/ wellnesscenter Top Executive: Anne Kuenzel FUNCTIONAL ENDOCRINOLOGY OF OHIO 6200 Rockside Woods Blvd. Independence 44131 (216) 236-0060 www.balancingyourchemistry.com Top Executive: Caroline Boardman GANEDEN BIOTECH 5800 Landerbrook Drive, Suite 300 Mayfield Heights 44124 (440) 229-5200 www.ganedenbiotech.com Top Executives: Andrew Lefkowitz, Mike Bush GILROY THERAPY & MOVEMENT STUDIO 27300 Cedar Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 595-7345 www.lewisaquaticcenter.org Top Executive: Steven Raichilson GREEN TARA YOGA & HEALING ARTS 2450 Fairmount Blvd. Cleveland Heights 44106 (216) 382-0592 www.greentarayoga.com Top Executive: Karen Allgire HUDSON CENTER FOR HEALING TOUCH 118 Clairhaven Drive Hudson 44236 (330) 554-2466 www.healingtouchhudson.com Top Executive: Nancy A. Strick LIFEWORKS OF SOUTHWEST GENERAL 7390 Old Oak Blvd. Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-4210 www.lifeworksfitness.net Top Executive: Karen Raisch-Siegel MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND 26001 S. Woodland Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 831-0700 www.mandeljcc.org Top Executive: Michael G. Hyman PATHWAYS TO CLARITY LLC 320 Kenmore Drive Bay Village 44140 (440) 292-7658 www.pathwaystoclarity.com Top Executive: Susan Barack THE SILENT MIND 9076 Church St. Twinsburg 44087 (330) 425-7204 www.thesilentmind.com Top Executive: Timothy R. Loomis SPECIALTY FITNESS EQUIPMENT 5188 Richmond Road Cleveland 44146 (855) 859-7171 www.specialtyfitnessequipment.com Top Executive: Chuck Herman SPIRITHEAL INSTITUTE FOR INTUITION AND HEALING 9953 Woodruff Lane Newbury 44065
(440) 564-1190 www.spirithealonline.com Top Executive: Sarah Weiss THE STUDIO CLEVELAND 1395 W. 10th St., Suite 120 Cleveland 44113 (216) 621-7085 www.thestudiocleveland.com Top Executive: Sarah Cheiky SUMMIT ACUPUNCTURE 2640 W. Market St., Suite 101B Fairlawn 44333 (330) 929-4334 www.summitacupuncture.com Top Executive: Kirsten Van Nostran TAI CHI INSTITUTE USA 8440 E. Washington St., Suite 106 Chagrin Falls 44023 (330) 564-7558 www.taichicleveland.com Top Executive: Edward Niam TIME FOR CHANGE-HYPNOSIS 3430 Rocky River Drive Cleveland 44111 (216) 210-5504 Top Executive: Jerome E. Masek TRAIN 2U LLC 2711 Hampton Road Rocky River 44116 (440) 552-0338 www.train2u.com Top Executive: Keith Zimcosky VISION YOGA & WELLNESS 1861 W. 25th St. Cleveland 44113 (216) 348-1111 www.visionyoga.net Top Executive: Theresa Gorski WEIGHT MANAGEMENT PARTNERS INC. 5192 Chillicothe Road, Suite 104 South Russell 44022 (440) 338-6009 www.weightmp.com Top Executives: Dr. Barbara E. Berkeley, Darlene A. Paluf WELLNESS COUNCIL OF NORTHEAST OHIO 433 S. State St. Painesville 44077 (440) 354-8057 www.healthyohio.org/ wellnesscouncil Top Executive: Stephen A. Musgrave WELLNESS EVOLUTION 3791 Green Road Beachwood 44122 (440) 995-0303 www.wellnessevolution.com Top Executive: Gloria B. Treister WELLNESS IQ 4700 Rockside Road, Summit One, Suite 530 Independence 44131 (216) 264-2727 www.wellnessiq.net Top Executive: David Drap
HOME HEALTH CARE ABC/ALWAYS BEST CARE OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC. 951 Main St. Grafton 44044 (440) 791-7177 www.alwaysbestcaregreatercleveland.com Top Executive: Jim Bechtold ANGELS IN WAITING HOME CARE 38052 Euclid Ave., Suite 208 Willoughby 44094 (440) 946-0349 www.aiwhomecare.com
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Top Executive: Terri Jochum BENJAMIN ROSE HOME CARE 11890 Fairhill Road Cleveland 44120 (216) 791-8000 www.benrose.org Top Executive: Richard Browdie CARE SERVICES INC. DBA DIABETIC CARE SERVICES & PHARMACY 34099 Melinz Parkway, Unit F1 Eastlake 44095 (440) 954-7709 www.diabeticcareservices.com Top Executive: Marc D. Wolf CARE SERVICES INC. DBA DIABETIC EXPRESS 34099 Melinz Parkway, Unit F Eastlake 44095 (440) 954-7722 www.diabeticexpress.com Top Executive: Marc D. Wolf CARINGTREE SENIOR CARE 1440 Rockside Road, Suite 106 Cleveland 44134 (440) 386-4660 www.caringtreeinc.com Top Executive: Joe Orlando CLINICAL SPECIALTIES 6955 Treeline Drive Brecksville 44141 (888) 873-8999 www.clinicalspecialties.com Top Executives: Edward J. Rivalsky, Eric Bornstein
(440) 345-5522 www.homehelpers.cc Top Executive: Grett Elizabeth Yenny HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE 26777 Lorain Road, Suite 406 North Olmsted 44070 (440) 734-7441 homeinstead.com/257 Top Executive: Geoffrey Moore HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE 7650 First Place, Building B, Suite H Oakwood Village, 44146 (440)914-1400 www.homeinstead.com Top executives: Scott D. Radcliff, Jeannie Radcliff HOMEWATCH CAREGIVERS 150 Springside Drive Akron 44333 (330) 668-1500 www.homewatchcaregivers.com/ cleveland-akron Top Executive: Paul Bonacuse JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND 3659 S. Green Road, Suite 322 Beachwood 44122 (216) 292-3999 www.jfsa-cleveland.org Top Executive: Susan Bichsel JFSA CARE AT HOME 3659 S. Green Road, Suite 316 Beachwood 44122 (216) 378-8660 www.jfsacareathome.org Top Executive: Lisa Goodlow
DISCOUNT DRUG MART INC. 211 Commerce Drive Medina 44256 (330) 725-2340 www.discount-drugmart.com Top Executives: Don Boodjeh, Parviz Boodjeh
JUDSON HOME CARE 2181 Ambleside Drive Cleveland 44106 (216) 791-7057 www.judsonsmartliving.org Top Executive: Cynthia H. Dunn
FIRSTCHOICE HOME HEALTH CARE 1457 W. 117th St. Cleveland 44107 (216) 521-2222 www.rxprn.com Top Executive: Charles Slone
KENDAL NORTHERN OHIO DBA SENIOR INDEPENDENCE 600 Kendal Drive Oberlin 44074 (440) 775-9894 www.kendalnorthernohio.org Top Executive: Barbara W. Thomas
GREAT LAKES CARING HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE 5830A Heisley Road Mentor 44060 (440) 358-9200 www.greatlakescaring.com Top Executive: Charlotte Kistler
KINDRED AT HOME–MENTOR 8224 Mentor Ave. Mentor 44060 (440) 974-2995 www.kindredathome.com
GRISWOLD HOME CARE 26260 Center Ridge Road, Suite B Westlake 44145 (440) 835-7900 www.griswoldhomecare.com Top Executive: Scott Kaase HANSON SERVICES IN-HOME ASSISTED LIVING PROVIDERS 17017 Madison Ave. Lakewood 44107 (216) 226-5425 www.hansonservices.com Top Executive: Mary Ann Hanson HEARTLAND HOME HEALTH CARE 4807 Rockside Road Independence 44131 (216) 901-1464 www.heartlandhomehealth.com Top Executive: Sue Piazza HOME HEALTH SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST GENERAL 17951 Jefferson Park Road Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-6850 www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden HOME HELPERS AND DIRECT LINK 4805 W. Pleasant Valley Road, Suite 3 Parma 44129
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KINDRED AT HOME-CLEVELAND 5386 Majestic Parkway Bedford Heights 44146 (440) 232-1800 www.kindredathome.com LAKE HEALTH HOME CARE SERVICES 7590 Auburn Road Concord 44077 (440) 639-0900 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Janie Racer MENORAH PARK HOME HEALTH SERVICES 27100 Cedar Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 595-7333 www.menorahpark.org Top Executive: Steven Raichilson MERCY HOME HEALTH CARE 3700 Kolbe Road Lorain 44053 (440) 960-4000 www.mercyonline.org Top Executive: Edwin M. Oley MOBILE MEALS INC. 1063 S. Broadway St. Akron 44311 (800) 852-6325 www.mobilemealsinc.org Top Executive: Lorie M. Travaglino
MONTEFIORE HOMECARE One David Myers Parkway Beachwood 44122 (216) 910-2471 www.montefiorecare.org Top Executive: Lauren B. Rock PERSONAL TOUCH HOME CARE OF OHIO INC. 4500 Rockside Road, Suite 460 Independence 44131 (216) 986-0885 www.pthomecare.com Top Executive: Charlene L. Szunyog SEASONS OF CARE 16500 Sprague Road, Suite C Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 274-4000 www.seasonsofcare.com Top Executive: Tricia Schaum SENIOR HELPERS OF NORTHEAST OHIO 4807 Rockside Road, Suite 230 Independence 44131 (216) 378-0022 www.seniorhelpersneo.com Top Executive: Larry Mason SENIOR INDEPENDENCE 1815 W. Market St., Suite 303 Akron 44313 (330) 873-3468 www.seniorindependence.org Top Executive: Sheila Flannery SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY-AT HOME WITH SHEPHERD HOME HEALTH CARE 5525 Silica Road Austintown 44515 (330) 530-4041 www.shepherdofthevalley.com Top Executive: Kristine Siciliano ST. AUGUSTINE HOME HEALTH CARE 7801 Detroit Ave. Cleveland 44102 (216) 939-7628 www.staugministries.org
Top Executive: Kristin Graham UH ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER HOME CARE 90 E. Broad St. Elyria 44035 (440) 329-7519 www.uhelyria.org Top Executive: Mary Jo Dziak UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HOME CARE SERVICES 4510 Richmond Road Warrensville Heights 44128 (216) 844-4663 www.uhhomecare.com Top Executive: Keith Maitland VISITING ANGELS 8451 Mentor Ave. Mentor 44060 (440) 974-0869 www.visitingangels.com/neohio Top Executive: Wayne M. Brodnan VISITING ANGELS SENIOR HOMECARE 12200 Fairhill Road, 2nd floor, B-wing Cleveland 44120 (216) 231-6400 www.visitingangels.com/cleveland Top Executives: Constance Hill-Johnson, Kevin Johnson VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF OHIO 2500 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 931-1400 www.vnaohio.org Top Executive: Claire M. Zangerle VISITING NURSE SERVICE AND AFFILIATES 1 Home Care Place Akron 44320 (800) 362-0031 www.vnsa.com Top Executive: Karen L. Mullen WILLCARE 26250 Euclid Ave., Suite 901
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HOSPICE HEARTLAND HOSPICE 4807 Rockside Road Independence 44131 (216) 901-1464 www.heartlandhospice.com Top Executive: Sue Piazza HOLY FAMILY HOSPICE 6707 State Road Parma 44134 (440) 888-7722 www.holyfamilyhome.com Top Executive: Kristin Graham HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE 17876 St. Clair Ave. Cleveland 44110 (800) 707-8922 www.hospicewr.org Top Executive: William E. Finn HOSPICE OF VISITING NURSE SERVICE 3358 Ridgewood Road Akron 44333 (800) 335-1455 www.vnsa.com Top Executive: Karen L. Mullen HOSPICE SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST GENERAL 18659 Drake Road Strongsville 44136 (440) 816-5000
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www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden MERCY NEW LIFE HOSPICE 3500 Kolbe Road Lorain 44053 (440) 934-1458 www.mercyonline.org Top Executive: Edwin M. Oley VINNEY HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MONTEFIORE One David Myers Parkway Beachwood 44122 (216) 910-2650 www.montefiorecare.org Top Executive: Lauren B. Rock VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF OHIO 2500 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 931-1300 www.vnaohio.org Top Executive: Claire M. Zangerle
HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
BLOOD SERVICES 105 Cleveland St. Elyria 44035 (440) 322-5700 www.lifeshare.cc Top Executive: Richard L. Cluck
SOUTHWEST GENERAL 18697 Bagley Road Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-8000 www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden
CLEVELAND CLINIC 9500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44195 (216) 444-2200 www.clevelandclinic.org Top Executive: Toby Cosgrove, M.D.
LODI COMMUNITY HOSPITAL 225 Elyria St. Lodi 44254 (330) 948-1222 www.lodihospital.org Top Executive: Thomas Whelan
ST. JOHN MEDICAL CENTER 29000 Center Ridge Road Westlake 44143 (440) 835-8000 stjohnmedicalcenter.net Top Executive: William A. Young
CLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN’S 9500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44195 (216) 444-5437 www.clevelandclinicchildrens.org Top Executive: Giovanni Piedimonte, M.D.
LUTHERAN HOSPITAL 1730 W. 25th St. Cleveland 44113 (216) 696-4300 www.lutheranhospital.org Top Executive: Donald Malone, M.D.
ST. VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER 2351 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 861-6200 www.stvincentcharity.com Top Executive: David F. Perse, M.D.
CLEVELAND CLINIC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL FOR REHABILITATION, SHAKER CAMPUS 2801 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Cleveland 44104 (216) 636-5437 www.clevelandclinicchildrens.org Top Executive: Michael J. McHugh, M.D. CLEVELAND CLINIC REGIONAL HOSPITALS 25875 Science Park Drive Beachwood 44122 (216) 445-2740 www.clevelandclinic.org Top Executive: Brian Donley, M.D.
AKRON GENERAL EDWIN SHAW REHABILITATION 330 Broadway St. East Cuyahoga Falls 44221 (330) 436-0910 www.edwinshaw.org Top Executive: Thomas Whelan
EUCLID HOSPITAL 18901 Lake Shore Blvd. Euclid 44119 (216) 531-9000 www.euclidhospital.org Top Executive: Mark Froimson, M.D.
AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER One Akron General Ave. Akron 44307 (330) 344-6000 www.akrongeneral.org Top Executive: Alan J. Papa AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN OHIO BLOOD SERVICES REGION 3747 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44115 (216) 431-3010 www.redcrossblood.org Top Executive: Mike Thome ASHTABULA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 2420 Lake Ave. Ashtabula 44004 (440) 997-2262 www.acmchealth.org Top Executive: Michael J. Habowski AULTMAN HEALTH FOUNDATION 2600 Sixth St. SW Canton 44710 (330) 452-9911 www.aultman.org Top Executive: Edward J. Roth III AULTMAN HOSPITAL 2600 Sixth St. S.W. Canton 44710 (330) 452-9911 www.aultman.org Top Executive: Christopher E. Remark BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AT ST. VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL
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CENTER 2351 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 861-6200 www.st.vincentcharity.com Top Executive: David F. Perse, M.D.
AKRON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL One Perkins Square Akron 44308 (330) 543-1000 www.akronchildrens.org Top Executive: William H. Considine
AKRON GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM One Akron General Ave. Akron 44307 (330) 344-6000 www.akrongeneral.org Top Executive: Dr. Thomas (Tim) L. Stover
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FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL 18101 Lorain Ave. Cleveland 44111 (216) 476-7000 www.fairviewhospital.org Top Executive: Neil P. Smith, D.O. HILLCREST HOSPITAL 6780 Mayfield Road Mayfield Heights 44124 (440) 312-4500 www.hillcresthospital.org Top Executive: Brian Harte, M.D. KINDRED HOSPITAL CLEVELAND 11900 Fairhill Road Cleveland 44120 (216) 983-8030 www.kindredcleveland.com Top Executive: Vanessa Acevedo KINDRED HOSPITAL CLEVELAND-GATEWAY 2351 E. 22nd St., 7th Floor Cleveland 44115 (216) 592-2830 www.kindredgateway.com Top Executive: Prentice Lipsey LAKE HEALTH 7590 Auburn Road Concord Township 44077 (440) 375-8100 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Cynthia Moore-Hardy LAKEWOOD HOSPITAL 14519 Detroit Ave. Lakewood 44107 (216) 521-4200 www.lakewoodhospital.org Top Executive: Shannan Ritchie LIFEBANC 4775 Richmond Road Cleveland 44128-5919 (216) 752-5433 www.lifebanc.org Top Executive: Gordon Bowen LIFESHARE COMMUNITY
MARYMOUNT HOSPITAL 12300 McCracken Road Garfield Heights 44125 (216) 581-0500 www.marymount.org Top Executive: Joanne Zeroske MEDINA HOSPITAL 1000 E. Washington St. Medina 44256 (330) 725-1000 www.medinahospital.org Top Executive: Thomas Tulisiak, M.D. MERCY 3700 Kolbe Road Lorain 44053 (440) 960-4000 www.mercyonline.org Top Executive: Edwin M. Oley MERCY ALLEN HOSPITAL 200 W. Lorain St. Oberlin 44070 (440) 775-1211 www.mercyonline.org Top Executive: Susan Bowers MERCY MEDICAL CENTER 1320 Mercy Drive N.W. Canton 44708 (330) 489-1000 www.cantonmercy.org Top Executive: Thomas E. Cecconi METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER 2500 MetroHealth Drive Cleveland 44109 (216) 778-7800 www.metrohealth.org Top Executive: Akram Boutros, M.D. THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM 2500 MetroHealth Drive Cleveland 44109 (216) 778-7800 www.metrohealth.org Top Executive: Akram Boutros, M.D. NORTHSIDE MEDICAL CENTER 500 Gypsy Lane Youngstown 44501 (330) 884-1000 www.valleycareofohio.net Top Executive: Trent Crable ROBINSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 6847 N. Chestnut St. Ravenna 44266 (330) 297-0811 www.robinsonmemorial.org Top Executive: Stephen Colecchi SISTERS OF CHARITY HEALTH SYSTEM 2475 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 696-5560 www.sistersofcharityhealth.org Top Executive: Terrence P. Kessler SOUTH POINTE HOSPITAL 20000 Harvard Road Warrensville Heights 44122 (216) 491-6000 www.southpointehospital.org Top Executive: Robert Juhasz, D.O.
SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM 525 E. Market St. Akron 44309 (330) 375-3000 www.summahealth.org Top Executive: Thomas J. Strauss TRIPOINT MEDICAL CENTER 7590 Auburn Road Concord Township 44077 (440) 375-8100 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Cynthia Moore-Hardy UH RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL 11100 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (866) 844-2273 www.rainbowbabies.org Top Executive: Patricia DePompei UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS 11100 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (866) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org Top Executive: Thomas F. Zenty III UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER 3999 Richmond Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org/ahuja Top Executive: Susan Juris UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BEDFORD MEDICAL CENTER 44 Blaine Ave. Bedford 44146 (440) 735-3900 www.uhbedford.org Top Executive: Robert G. David UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CASE MEDICAL CENTER 11100 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (216) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org Top Executive: Fred C. Rothstein, M.D. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | CONNEAUT MEDICAL CENTER 158 W. Main Road Conneaut 44030 (440) 593-1131 www.uhconneaut.org Top Executive: M. Steven Jones UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER 630 E. River St. Elyria 44035 (440) 329-7500 www.emh-healthcare.org Top Executive: Donald S. Sheldon, M.D. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS GEAUGA MEDICAL CENTER 13207 Ravenna Road Chardon 44024
(440) 285-6000 www.uhgeauga.org Top Executive: M. Steven Jones UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS GENEVA MEDICAL CENTER 870 W. Main St. Geneva 44041 (440) 466-1141 www.uhgeneva.org Top Executive: M. Steven Jones UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS PARMA MEDICAL CENTER 7007 Powers Blvd. Parma 44129 (440) 743-3000 www.parmahospital.org Top Executive: Nancy Tinsley UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER, A CAMPUS OF UH REGIONAL HOSPITALS 27100 Chardon Road Richmond Heights 44143 (440) 585-6500 www.uhrichmond.org Top Executive: Robert G. David VETERANS AFFAIRS — LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VAMC 10701 East Blvd. Cleveland 44106 (216) 791-3800 www.cleveland.med.va.gov Top Executive: Susan M. Fuehrer WEST MEDICAL CENTER 36000 Euclid Ave. Willoughby 44094 (440) 953-9600 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Cynthia Moore-Hardy WESTERN RESERVE HEALTH SYSTEM 3033 State Road Cuyahoga Falls 44223 (330) 923-5899 www.westernreservehs.org Top Executive: Robert Kent, M.D. WESTERN RESERVE HOSPITAL 1900 23rd St. Cuyahoga Falls 44223 (330) 971-7000 www.westernreservehospital.org Top Executive: Robert A. Kent, D.O.
INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS ANTHEM BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD IN OHIO 8333 Rockside Road, Suite 200 Valley View 44125 (800) 551-3119 www.anthem.com Top Executive: Scott Misischia HEALTHSPAN 1001 Lakeside Ave., Suite 1200 Cleveland 44114 (800) 524-7371 www.healthspan.org Top Executive: Kenneth Page MEDICAL MUTUAL OF OHIO 2060 E. Ninth St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 687-7000 www.medmutual.com Top Executive: Rick A. Chiricosta SUMMACARE 10 N. Main St. Akron 44308 (330) 996-8410 www.summacare.com Top Executives: Martin P. Hauser, Claude Vincenti UNITEDHEALTHCARE OF
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NORTHERN OHIO INC. 1001 Lakeside Ave., Suite 1000 Cleveland 44114 (800) 468-5001 www.unitedhealthcare.com Top Executive: Thomas Sullivan
LABORATORIES CLEVELAND CLINIC LABORATORIES 9500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44195 (800) 628-6816 www.clevelandcliniclabs.com Top Executive: David Bosler, M.D. CLEVELAND SKIN PATHOLOGY LABORATORY INC. 3737 Park East Drive, Suite 202 Beachwood 44122 (216) 464-7770 www.clevelandskinpathology.com Top Executive: Jonathan Bass, M.D. FERTILITY SOLUTIONS 11811 Shaker Blvd., Suite 330 Cleveland 44120 (216) 491-0030 www.fertilitysolutions.com Top Executive: Susan A. Rothmann MEDEXAM INC. 24461 Detroit Road, Suite 350 Westlake 44145 (440) 871-1600 Top Executive: Bryan E. Schmidt UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CASE MEDICAL CENTER’S CENTER FOR HUMAN GENETICS LABORATORY 10524 Euclid Ave., sixth floor Cleveland 44106 (216) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org Top Executive: Dr. Fred Rothstein UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DERMATOPATHOLOGY LABORATORY 11100 Euclid Ave., Bolwell 3100 Cleveland 44106 (216) 844-2273 www.uhcderm.com/diagnostic.html Top Executive: Kevin Cooper, M.D.
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND IMAGING BEST SOLUTIONS MEDICAL SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT 352 Chesapeake Cove Painesville 44077 (440) 744-0177 www.bestsolutions medicalsupplies.com Top Executive: Greg Smolik BUCKEYE MEDICAL SUPPLY 1495 Warrensville Center Road South Euclid 44121 (216) 291-4000 Top Executive: Eric M. Buller G.R.E. ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS 13376 Ravenna Road Chardon 44024 (440) 285-5785 www.greop.com Top Executive: Jonathan Naft GILL PODIATRY SUPPLY & EQUIPMENT CO. 22400 Ascoa Court Strongsville 44149 (800) 321-1348 www.gillpodiatry.com Top Executive: Ric Boggs HEALTH AID OF OHIO 5230 Hauserman Road
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Cleveland 44130 (216) 252-3900 www.healthaidofohio.com Top Executive: Carol Gilligan IBA MOLECULAR 7650 First Place, Building B, Suite A Oakwood Village 44146 (440) 439-5356 www.iba-molecular.com Top Executive: Lynn Chwojdak IMAGEIQ 26801 Miles Road, Suite 103 Cleveland 44128 (855) 462-4347 www.image-iq.com Top Executive: Timothy J. Kulbago KAPP SURGICAL INSTRUMENT INC. 4919 Warrensville Center Road Cleveland 44128 (216) 587-4400 www.kappsurgical.com Top Executive: Albert N. Santilli LEIMKUEHLER INC. 4625 Detroit Ave. Cleveland 44102 (216) 651-7788 www.leimkuehlerinc.com Top Executive: Robert V. Leimkuehler MAGNETIC RESONANCE TECHNOLOGIES INC. 4261 Hamann Parkway Willoughby 44094 (440) 942-2922 www.mritechnologies.com Top Executive: Michael Profeta MILLER’S RENTAL & SALES INC. 2023 Romig Road Akron 44320 (330) 753-8600 www.millers.com Top Executive: John P. Miller NEO PET LLC 34555 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 200 Moreland Hills 44022 (440) 893-9949 www.neo-pet.com Top Executive: Floro Miraldi, M.D.
VISITING NURSE SERVICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES 160 Opportunity Parkway, Suite 101 Akron 44307 (800) 314-7000 www.vnsa.com Top Executive: Karen L. Mullen VOLK OPTICAL INC. 7893 Enterprise Drive Mentor 44060 (440) 942-6161 www.volk.com Top Executive: Peter L. Mastores
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ALEGO HEALTH 24651 Center Ridge Road, Suite 400 Westlake 44145 (440) 918-4570 www.alegohealth.com Top Executive: Jacqueline Forestall APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. 8000 Katherine Blvd. Brecksville 44141 (440) 717-4000 www.appliedmedical.net Top Executive: George J. Picha, M.D. CODONICS INC. 17991 Englewood Drive Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 243-1198 www.codonics.com Top Executive: Peter Botten LIFEMEDIX LLC 526 S. Main St., Suite 801E Akron 44311 (330) 850-1199 lifemedix.com Top Executive: Anup Salgia, M.D. NATIONAL MEDICAL IMAGING CO. 34555 Chagrin Blvd Moreland Hills 44022
(440) 319-3940 www.nmics.com Top Executives: Geremy W. Havanec, Carla Cort OSTEOSYMBIONICS LLC 1768 E. 25th St. Cleveland 44114 (216) 881-8500 www.osteosymbionics.com Top Executive: Dorothy C. Baunach SIMBIONIX USA CORP. 7100 Euclid Ave., Suite 180 Cleveland 44103 (216) 229-2040 www.simbionix.com Top Executive: Gary Zamler SPR THERAPEUTICS LLC 22901 Millcreek Blvd, Suite 110 Cleveland 44122 (216) 378-9108 www.sprtherapeutics.com Top Executive: Maria E. Bennett SYNAPSE BIOMEDICAL INC. 300 Artino St. Oberlin 44074 (440) 774-2488 www.synapsebiomedical.com Top Executive: Anthony Ignagni TOTAL VOICE TECHNOLOGIES 8193 Avery Road Broadview Heights 44147 (440) 473-0000 www.totalvoicetech.com Top Executive: Christopher J. Kikel VIEWRAY INC. 2 Thermo Fisher Way Oakwood Village 44146 (619) 341-0724 www.viewray.com
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HEALTH LLC 6133 Rockside Road, Suite 207 Independence 44131 (216) 520-5969 www.affiliatesbh.org Top Executive: Nicholas Palumbo AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER, DEPT. OF PSYCHIATRY & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 1 Akron General Ave. Akron 44307 (330) 344-6000 www.akrongeneral.org Top Executive: Jeffrey Moore, M.D. ASCENTIA: PATHWAYS TO COMMUNITY LIVING 24075 Commerce Park Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 292-3999 www.ascentia.org Top Executive: Debbie Chickering BEACON HEALTH 9220 Mentor Ave. Mentor 44060-6412 (440) 354-9924 www.beaconhealth.us Top Executive: Spence Kline BEECH BROOK 3737 Lander Road Cleveland 44124 (216) 831-2255 www.beechbrook.org Top Executive: Debra Rex C. J. HENDRY & ASSOCIATES INC. 25000 Center Ridge Road, Suite 6 Westlake 44145 (440) 892-7034 www.cjhendry.com Top Executive: Carol J. Ball CATHOLIC CHARITIES, DIOCESE OF CLEVELAND 7911 Detroit Ave. Cleveland 44102 (216) 334-2900 www.clevelandcatholiccharities.org Top Executive: Patrick Gareau
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THE CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN 4500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44103 (216) 432-7200 www.thecentersohio.org Top Executive: Sharon Sobol Jordan CLEVELAND CENTER FOR CONSCIOUS LIVING 6611 Rockside Road, Suite 215 Independence 44131 (216) 462-0538 www.dougjmoore.com Top Executive: Douglas J. Moore COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 5982 Rhodes Road Kent 44240 (330) 673-1347 www.coleman-professional.com CROSSROADS 8445 Munson Road Mentor 44060 (440) 255-1700 www.crossroads-lake.org Top Executive: Mike Matoney ELDERCARE SERVICES INSTITUTE OF BENJAMIN ROSE 11890 Fairhill Road Cleveland 44120 (216) 791-8000 www.benrose.org Top Executive: Richard Browdie FAR WEST CENTER 29133 Health Campus Drive Westlake 44145 (440) 835-6212 www.farwestcenter.com Top Executive: Helen (Kelly) M. Dylag FRONTLINE SERVICE 1744 Payne Ave. Cleveland 44114 (216) 623-6555 www.frontlineservice.org Top Executive: Susan Neth HEALTHSTYLES LLC 9002 Fairmount Road Novelty 44072 (440) 338-1538 www.yourhealthstyles.com Top Executive: Dr. Rebecca Bode IMPACT SOLUTIONS 23240 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 500 Beachwood 44122 (216) 292-6007 www.myimpactsolution.com Top Executive: Dr. Joel R. Gecht JANE MILLER, LISW, CDBC 5 S. Main St., Suite 205 Oberlin 44074 (800) 457-0345 www.healing-companions.com Top Executive: Jane Miller JANE PERNOTTO EHRMAN, M.ED., CHES 1380 Pearl Road Brunswick 44212 (440) 213-1872 www.imagesofwellness.com Top Executive: Jane Ehrman NAMI GREATER CLEVELAND 2012 W. 25th St., Suite 600 Cleveland 44113 (216) 875-0266 www.namigreatercleveland.org Top Executive: Michael Baskin THE NORD CENTER 6140 S. Broadway Ave. Lorain 44053 (440) 233-7232 www.nordcenter.org Top Executive: Amy Denger OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE 38135 Colorado Ave.
Avon 44011 (440) 934-6007 www.thewayside.org Top Executive: Terry Davis PSYCHOLOGICAL & BEHAVIORAL CONSULTANTS INC. 25101 Chagrin Blvd., Suite 100 Beachwood 44122 (216) 831-6611 www.psychbc.com Top Executive: Donald K. Sykes PSYCHOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS LLC 5035 Mayfield Road, Suite 201 Lyndhurst 44124 (216) 291-1010 www.docrich.com Top Executive: Rich Weisberg RAVENWOOD MENTAL HEALTH CENTER 12557 Ravenwood Drive Chardon 44024 (440) 285-3568 www.ravenwoodmhc.org Top Executive: Vicki Clark RECOVERY RESOURCES — MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 3950 Chester Ave. Cleveland 44114 (216) 431-4131 www.recres.org Top Executive: Debora A. Rodriguez
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(216) 791-8363 www.ucpcleveland.org Top Executive: Patricia S. Otter
OUTPATIENT SERVICES ADVANTAGE DIAGNOSTICS 3733 Park East Drive, Suite 100 Beachwood 44122 (216) 292-9998 www.advantagemri.us.com Top Executives: Nancy Westrich, James Zelch, M.D. AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER OUTPATIENT SERVICES 1 Akron General Ave. Akron 44307 (330) 344-6000 www.akrongeneral.org Top Executive: Steve Abdenour CENTER FOR INTEGRATED THERAPIES 11002 Detroit Ave. Cleveland 44102 (216) 227-8668 www.cfitonline.org Top Executive: Dr. Harry D. Simmons
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54 S. State St., Suite 302 Painesville 44077 (440) 352-8686 www.lakefreeclinic.org Top Executive: Johanna Henz LAKE HEALTH DIAGNOSTICS 7590 Auburn Road Concord Township 44077 (440) 375-8100 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Janie Racer LAKE HEALTH MENTOR CAMPUS 9485 Mentor Ave. Mentor 44060 (440) 974-6800 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Janie Racer LAKE HEALTH URGENT CARE CENTERS 7590 Auburn Road Concord Township 44077 (440) 375-8100 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Nancy Rodway, M.D. LASER SPINE INSTITUTE 300 Allen Bradley Drive Mayfield Heights 44124 (866) 325-2976 www.laserspineinstitute.com Top Executive: Erica Sheldon
PHARMACEUTICALS GEBAUER CO. 4444 E. 153rd St. Cleveland 44128 (800) 321-9348 www.gebauer.com Top Executive: Margaret Rose Giltinan
PHARMACY SERVICES ABSOLUTE HEALTH SERVICES INC. 339 E. Maple St., Suite 100 North Canton 44720 (330) 498-8100 www.abshealth.com Top Executive: Kevin Fearon ABSOLUTE PHARMACY 339 E. Maple St., Suite 100 North Canton 44720 (330) 498-8200 www.abshealth.com Top Executive: Kevin Fearon ADVANCED INFUSION SERVICES 160 Opportunity Parkway, Suite 102 Akron 44307 (888) 646-3873 www.vnsa.com Top Executive: Karen L. Mullen
CENTERS FOR DIALYSIS CARE 18720 Chagrin Blvd. Shaker Heights 44122 (216) 295-7003 www.cdcare.org Top Executive: Diane Wish
MONTEFIORE OUTPATIENT REHABILITATION THERAPY One David Myers Parkway Beachwood 44122 (216) 360-9080 www.montefiorecare.org Top Executive: Lauren B. Rock
UH CASE MEDICAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY 10524 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (866) 844-2273 Top Executive: Robert Ronis, M.D.
CLEVELAND CLINIC SPORTS HEALTH CENTER 5555 Transportation Blvd. Garfield Heights 44125 (877) 440-8326 www.sports-health.org Top Executive: Mark Schickendantz, M.D.
NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY PRACTICE 3569 Ridge Road Cleveland 44102 (216) 281-0872 www.nfpmedcenter.org Top Executive: Jean Polster
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THE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF GREATER CLEVELAND 12201 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (216) 721-4010 www.thefreeclinic.org Top Executive: Danny R. Williams
PETER B. LEWIS AQUATIC & THERAPY CENTER 27300 Cedar Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 595-7345 www.lewisaquaticcenter.org Top Executive: Steven Raichilson
LAKE HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES 7590 Auburn Road Concord 44077 (440) 354-1990 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Nancy Rodway, M.D.
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN 4255 Northfield Road Highland Hills 44128 (216) 292-9700 www.achievementcenters.org Top Executive: Patricia Nobili
THE GATHERING PLACE 23300 Commerce Park Beachwood 44122 (216) 595-9546 www.touchedbycancer.org Top Executive: Eileen Saffran
SOUTHWEST GENERAL OUTPATIENT CENTERS 18697 Bagley Road Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-5050 www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden
AGM PHYSICAL THERAPY 6000 Heisley Road Mentor 44060 (440) 357-6677 www.agmphysicaltherapy.com Top Executive: Greg Morris
MEDSOURCE ONE 5350 Transportation Blvd. Garfield Heights 44125 (216) 328-2240 www.medsource-one.com Top Executive: Scott E. Singer, M.D.
HATTIE LARLHAM 7996 Darrow Road, Suite 10 Twinsburg 44087 (800) 233-8611 www.hattielarlham.org Top Executive: Dennis Allen
MENORAH PARK OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY 27100 Cedar Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 450-5566 www.menorahpark.org Top Executive: Steven Raichilson
HEALTHCARE CENTER AT SAINT LUKE’S POINTE 11201 Shaker Blvd. Cleveland 44104 (216) 721-6900 www.stvincentcharity.com Top Executive: David F. Perse, M.D.
MERCY REHABILITATION CENTER 3700 Kolbe Road Lorain 44053 (440) 960-3400 www.mercyonline.org Top Executive: Edwin M. Oley
HEALTHCARE CENTER AT ST. VINCENT CHARITY MEDICAL CENTER 2351 E. 22nd St. Cleveland 44115 (216) 363-2524 www.stvincentcharity.com Top Executive: David F. Perse, M.D.
SIGNATURE HEALTH 38882 Mentor Ave. Willoughby 44094 (440) 953-9999 www.signaturehealthinc.com Top Executive: Jonathan Lee
OCCUCENTERS EAST SIDE 4450 St. Clair Ave. Cleveland 44103 (216) 431-0927 www.occucenters.com Top Executive: Dennis Frinzl UCP OF GREATER CLEVELAND 10011 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106
HIGHLAND SPEECH SERVICES INC. 415 Lowell Drive Highland Heights 44143 (440) 539-1152 Top Executive: Cindy Ginsburg LAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC
THERAPEUTIC HANDS MASSOTHERAPY 30638 Center Ridge Road Westlake 44145 (440) 892-4100 www.thmassotherapy.com Top Executive: Ilona E. Trommler UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OUTPATIENT HEALTH CENTERS 11100 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (216) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org Top Executive: Richard A. Hanson UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS ZEEBA SURGERY CENTER 29017 Cedar Road Lyndhurst 44124 (866) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org Top Executive: Richard A. Hanson UNIVERSITY SUBURBAN HEALTH CENTER 1611 S. Green Road South Euclid 44121 (216) 382-9492 www.universitysuburban.com Top Executive: Douglas S. Eckert
SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY PHARMACY 18697 Bagley Road Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-8410 www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden
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AKRON GENERAL SPORTS & PHYSICAL THERAPY 4125 Medina Road Akron 44333 (330) 665-8200 www.akrongeneral.org Top Executive: Todd Dawson FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER 16497 Snyder Road Chagrin Falls 44023 (440) 708-0013 www.fieldstonefarmtrc.com Top Executive: Lynnette Stuart HEALTHPRO REHABILITATION 16600 Sprague Road, Suite 365 Middleburg Heights 44130 (216) 227-7700 www.healthpro-rehab.com Top Executive: Jim Rogerson JAWORSKI PHYSICAL THERAPY INC. 137 Winckles St. Elyria 44035 (440) 366-5993 www.jptrehab.com Top Executive: Michael Jaworski KEYSTONE
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REHABILITATION SYSTEMS 700 Beta Drive, Suite 500 Mayfield Village 44143 (440) 460-2488 www.physiocorp.com Top Executive: Chris Faulds LAKE HEALTH PHYSICAL THERAPY 7590 Auburn Road Concord 44077 (440) 375-8100 www.lakehealth.org Top Executive: Lisa Rubin Falkenberg LAYTON PHYSICAL THERAPY 50 Normandy Drive Painesville 44077 (440) 639-8800 www.laytonpt.com Top Executive: Loretta A. Layton MENORAH PARK’S MARCUS POST-HOSPITAL REHABILITATION CENTER 27100 Cedar Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 839-6633 www.menorahpark.org Top Executive: Steven Raichilson MONTEFIORE POST-HOSPITAL REHAB CENTER-REHAB ROAD One David Myers Parkway Beachwood 44122 (216) 360-9080 www.montefiorecare.org Top Executive: Lauren B. Rock NOVACARE REHABILITATION 24400 Highpoint Road, Suite 10 Beachwood 44122 (216) 896-0824 www.novacare.com Top Executive: Deborah Wieder Singer PT CENTER FOR SPORTS MEDICINE AND FAMILY PHYSICAL THERAPY 2660 W. Market St., Suite 300 Akron 44333 (330) 869-2635 ptcenterakron.com Top Executive: Kevin L. Outwater SOUTHWEST GENERAL PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION SERVICES 7390 Old Oak Blvd. Middleburg Heights 44130 (440) 816-8010 www.swgeneral.com Top Executive: Thomas A. Selden SUBURBAN PHYSICAL THERAPY 8803 Brecksville Road Brecksville 44141 (440) 746-1730 www.suburbanpt.com Top Executives: Brad Dasher, Ed Baldwin, Mike Janesch TOTAL JOINT REHAB 34143 Center Ridge Road North Ridgeville 44039 (440) 327-0299 www.totaljointrehab.com Top Executive: Jason Kucharski UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL 23333 Harvard Road Beachwood 44122 (216) 593-2200 www.uhhospitals.org/services/ rehabilitation-services/ uh-rehabilitation-hospital Top Executive: Mirza Baig, M.D. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS REHABILITATION SERVICES 11100 Euclid Ave. Cleveland 44106 (216) 844-2273 www.uhhospitals.org Top Executive: Paul M. Smith
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surgical equipment and other device-related services — a growing focus for Steris. The biggest of the three is Integrated Medical Systems International of Birmingham, Ala. Steris bought the company for $165 million in May, and now it plans to hire another 100 people at IMS’ headquarters within three years, which would double the size of its staff.
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On the margins Steris also has broadened its lineup of medical products via acquisition. Take U.S. Endoscopy. In 2012, Steris spent $270 million to buy that company — which oddly enough already shared a driveway with Steris’ headquarters in Mentor. Not only is Steris selling more medical equipment and services, but it’s doing so at higher margins. Steris’ Isomedix division, which provides contract sterilization services, had an operating margin of nearly 29% in fiscal 2014, up from
18% in fiscal 2006 — before the recession. Its life sciences division, which sells equipment and services to pharmaceutical companies and researchers, lost $400,000 in fiscal 2006, but now it has a margin of about 20%. Mishan said he expects the same thing to happen in Steris’ health care segment, which accounts for 73% of its revenue. He noted that the company already is implementing lean manufacturing techniques, and it lately has been building more components itself instead of buying them from suppliers. “And given it’s their largest business, there’s a lot of opportunity there,” Mishan said.
‘A yeoman’s job’ Although the decision to move System 1E manufacturing from Mentor to other existing plants means Steris will eliminate about 100 positions in Ohio, it should help the company improve margins fur-
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some people in community banking — will stay at Key Tower, Kretzinger said. Those moving from the tower to the Higbee Building are in support functions that are better off being close to headquarters. For instance, about a month ago, the company’s product management and client in-
sights teams moved, making room for the tower’s third-floor renovation. Finance is scheduled to move this Friday, Sept. 5, he said. Other groups — such as private banking and marketing — are slated to make the jump by November. The information technology team didn’t need to be close to headquarters, so they moved to
ther by saving another $10 million per year, the company stated in March. Steris didn’t provide comments for this story. Analyst Elliott Schlang highlighted Steris’ improving margins and other previous cost-cutting efforts. He also mentioned its strong backlog of orders and its diversified product lineup. Steris’ leaders have “done a yeoman’s job of transforming their business,” according to Schlang, managing director at Great Lakes Review, an investment research firm in Shaker Heights. “Basically, they’ve gotten their act together,” he said. The firm rated Steris’ stock as a “gradual accumulate,” which is the second-highest of five ratings. Schlang —who owns stock in Steris — thinks its adjusted earnings per share will hit $2.90 this fiscal year and $3.27 next year. But the stock just hit an all-time high. Is it really going to keep going up? “We think it’ll continue to do nicely,” he said.
Tiedeman Road, as did some operations employees. Now they all work alongside the rest of the operations team — a group they do tend to work with, according to chief information officer Amy Brady, who leads IT and operations for Key. At Tiedeman, team members who previously were separated regularly talk and do work that you can’t always do over the phone, Brady said. And the office was laid out to encourage that. “They’re built for collaboration. They’re built for teams to come together,” she said.
Seat swap pays off Key’s real estate overhaul goes beyond Northeast Ohio. The bank has reduced the amount of space it uses in other cities, such as Seattle, Portland and Denver. Projects in Toledo and Buffalo are underway now, and Albany is on deck, Kretzinger said. Key needed to make changes: Because of layoffs and consolidation, more than 35% of Key’s corporate real estate was vacant before 2009, when the company started reducing the amount of space on its books, Kretzinger said. The vacancy rate in Northeast Ohio was maybe 20% or 25%. But over the last five years, the company has cut its corporate office space by about a million square feet. That 20% reduction left Key with 3.37 million square feet nationwide. And the bank aims to cut another 570,000 square feet by the end of 2016, Kretzinger said. By then, the corporate vacancy rate hopefully will be in the 10% to 15% range, he said, noting that it’s good to have some vacancy to make room for growth. So what’s the payoff from all this shuffling? In Northeast Ohio, Key expects to be saving $4.5 million on real estate each year by the end of 2016. Nationwide, that figure should be $45 million to $50 million. And Key already is enjoying much of those savings. “We have saved a tremendous amount of money,” Kretzinger said.
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Catching the next generation of fans Indians looking for new ways to score points with the younger, more-connected crowd through renovations, promotions By KEVIN KLEPS kkleps@crain.com
Tom Hamilton’s unmistakable voice described the changes the Cleveland Indians will make to Progressive Field in the next eight months. Near the end of the slickly produced video the Tribe showed to media at the 20-year-old ballpark on Aug. 7, Hamilton rattled off the three C’s that serve as the Indians’ brand vision — “Creating memories, connecting generations and celebrating families.” It’s the middle mission that is an even larger obstacle for the Tribe than the Detroit Tigers and their $170 million payroll. Fewer young people are playing, and watching, the game. “Baseball has that continual demographic that skews white male, 35 to 50,” Indians president Mark Shapiro said, “and it’s a question of to grow the game, to grow it significantly, we need to court younger segments of the population.” By many major metrics, Major League Baseball is thriving. The 10 seasons with the best attendance figures have all occurred in the last decade. Revenues have increased from $1.4 billion to almost $9 billion since 1995, and the new television contract with ESPN, Fox Sports and Turner Sports beat the previous national-TV deal by $800 million per year. But that audience — a trend that mirrors the entire TV industry — is older than ever. In a story prior to the 2013 World Series, Bloomberg reported that the median age of the 2012 Fall Classic viewer was 53.4, which was the highest in the more than 20 years of available data. Andrew Miller, the Indians’ senior vice president of strategy and business analytics, said the Tribe’s season-ticket base of about 8,000 is “a relatively older, affluent crowd, which makes sense given the product.” It’s the younger generation, a group that’s a clear target of much of the Indians’ largescale renovations to Progressive Field, that’s more difficult to reach.
Put away your pencils “This will always be more than a building,” Hamilton said at the end of the video the Tribe showed on Aug. 7. Baseball, probably more than any other sport, is known for its ability to serve as a
game,” Shapiro said. “What this does is kind of provide for that — it’s that neighborhood concept, right? You’ve got the bar and the neighborhoods down below that can be focused on a younger segment of Cleveland that is meeting more downtown now. “You’ve got this area that can be more of a destination for families,” Shapiro said as he was being interviewed outside the Kids Clubhouse. “You’ve got suites and the Collection Auto Club, which is more for maybe the affluent business-type customer.”
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bond for family members of all ages. That concept, however, might be every bit as outdated as buying a program and keeping score. In the 2014 ESPN Sports poll, the number of 12- to 17-year-olds who considered themselves avid fans of Major League Soccer, 18%, was the same as the figure for Major League Baseball. It marked the first time soccer had caught up with baseball in the category. Two years earlier, baseball ranked fifth in the ESPN poll for most popular sports among 12- to 24-year-olds, trailing the NFL, professional soccer, the NBA and college football. That decline has been evident on the playing fields. The National Sporting Goods Association’s annual data showed that the number of people participating in baseball dropped from 15.6 million in 2000 to 11.7 million in 2013. In that span, youth participation, which the National Sporting Goods Association defines as ages 7 to 17, plummeted from 8.8 million to 5.3 million. It’s not just baseball that suffers from today’s time-crunched, faster-paced society, but the national pastime might be one of the poster subjects for any generation gap because of its old-school traditions. “The reality is the game continues to grow,” Shapiro said. “But for the future of the game, we need to acknowledge that fans are watch-
ing the game differently. It’s not with a pencil and a scorecard behind home plate anymore. There’s an interactive level that fans are watching the game with.” The Indians — whose low attendance often is as much a part of the Northeast Ohio summer sports discourse as hope that this is the year the Browns finally turn it around — believe they’re addressing some of those concerns with the first phase of ballpark renovations. A critical part of the privately financed Progressive Field redesign is an expansion of the Kids Clubhouse along the right-field line. When it’s finished, the two-story structure and its interactive concourse will be “unlike any in professional sports,” Shapiro said. The Tribe will also debut a two-story bar in right field that will have a glass enclosure and rooftop view of downtown. The new-look area in right field will include a Gate C concourse that will celebrate some of Cleveland’s most notable neighborhoods with food, drinks and a patio dining vibe. Like generations of fans differing on Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Trout, the Progressive Field upgrades should appeal to customers in varying degrees. “We need to make sure we have the offerings that are a little distinct and feel focused on whatever segment that wants to come to the
The days of the Indians packing the house more than a couple times per year are likely over, which is reflected in Progressive Field reducing its capacity by more than 5,000 in the coming months. The Tribe’s most frequent, and three of the most popular, promotions all appeal to younger fans. By the end of the 2014 season, the Indians will have held a combined 33 fireworks, 32 Rally Alley and 28 dollar dog promotions the last two years. Miller, the Indians’ business analytics leader, said dollar hot dogs and fireworks “provide more interest” to fans in their 20s and 30s “who are looking for social experiences.” Every Major League Baseball team is trying to reach a younger audience, Miller said. To get there, the Indians are starting with the tykes. “The way we’ve done it is we’ve approached it from understanding the needs of families and trying to have kids in here,” Miller said. “We have created youth marketing approaches and youth baseball programs, and our (baseball) camps are ongoing.” The ultimate goal, Miller said, is to “create different experiences for different sets of fans.” The renovations, which the Indians expect to complete early in the 2015 season, should pump some life into a ballpark that, though it was well-maintained, had fallen behind in the never-ending battle professional sports teams wage with the home experience. “I think this will create some level of buzz, but it’s not going to be like opening a new ballpark,” Shapiro said. “The goal would be you want the buzz when it opens, but then you want the experience it creates to exceed the expectations so people will come back.” Preferably with their kids in tow.
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THE WEEK AUGUST 25 - 31 The big story: Cleveland Clinic and Akron General Health System finalized an agreement that will make the regional health care powerhouse a minority owner of the Akron-based health system. Terms were not disclosed, but reports indicated the deal carries a six-year agreement and is worth $100 million. The Clinic said it will make a “substantial capital investment” in Akron General. Last year, Akron General announced it was poised to be acquired through a joint venture of the Clinic and Community Health Systems, a large, for-profit health system based in Tennessee, but the deal ultimately soured.
A good fit: Construction of the YMCA of Greater Cleveland’s new fitness center at the Galleria and Tower at Erieview will begin Sept. 23. The facility will be dubbed the Parker Hannifin Downtown YMCA. Parker Hannifin Corp. received naming rights in recognition of a “generous donation,” said Glenn Haley, YMCA president and CEO. Galleria and Erieview owner Minshall Development Co. also donated a 40,000-square-foot space to the nonprofit. Although the Y hopes to open the fitness center in November 2015, its fundraising campaign is $1.1 million short of its goal. Flipping the strategy:
United Way of Greater Cleveland kicked off its 2014 campaign in a way unlike it ever has done before — without a theatric pancake flip in Public Square or a publicly stated fundraising goal. It’s a major shift for the regional fundraising powerhouse, which in its last campaign fell short of its $42.5 million goal by about $2 million. United Way reported the 2014 campaign already has brought in $4 million.
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Heart replacement: Cleveland Clinic’s world-renowned heart program is in need of a new leader. Dr. Bruce Lytle, 68, will continue to serve as the chairman of the Clinic’s Heart & Vascular Institute — a role he’s held for the last seven years — while his successor is identified and then will “pursue other opportunities,” according to an internal announcement from Clinic chief of staff Dr. Joseph Hahn. The Clinic is forming a committee to conduct a national search for Lytle’s replacement. Lytle has been with the Clinic for 38 years. One for the history books: Nicholas Cummings, a trailblazing psychologist, and his wife, Dorothy, committed $3.5 million to the University of Akron, which will secure the future of its Center for the History of Psychology. In recognition of the gift, which follows an early commitment of $1.5 million, the center will bear the Cummings name. The center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian, was founded in 1965.
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It’s not a party until the leader poses with a Care Bear When American Greetings broke ground Aug. 27 for its new headquarters in Westlake, which the company calls its “creative studios,” it was a really big party for a really big building. Well-known characters such as the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake were there, as were new-breed counterparts from the company’s justWink greeting card line — a cat with a sweater, a ninja warrior and the three moustaches, which are Lyft-like moustaches worn atop three actors’ heads. Five food carts drew long lines, as did a face-painting table for the kids. A tent big enough for a circus graced the grounds near Crocker Park. Attendance was big as well: 3,000 people were there, according to Patrice Sadd, spokeswoman for the greeting card company, which now styles itself as a personal expressions maker. The company invited employees, their families and local public officials and media to the party, which was videotaped by a drone. Bands played on a stage throughout the party. The party marked the start of construction of the five-story building with 600,000 square feet of space that will accommodate about 2,000 employees. As Morry Weiss, chairman of American Greetings, assented to pose for pictures with a Care Bear, Jeffrey Weiss, co-CEO, said the building is designed to foster creativity by emphasizing communication in the company. Most corporations have one square foot of meeting and amenity space for every two square feet devoted to employees, Jeffrey Weiss said. However, his company’s new building re-
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Lakewood high-rise sold in low-profile deal The 15-story, 12000 Edgewater Tower apartments on Lakewood’s Gold Coast has a new owner — Independence-based Millennia Housing Management Co. — in what might be called a quiet deal. The deed for the 115-unit property has not changed hands. However, the prior ownership company, 12000 Edgewater Drive LLC, led by Beachwood-based Wolf Realty Investors, merged on July 31 with a firm called 12000 Edgewater Investment, which is led by Millennia CEO Frank Sinito, according to Ohio incorporation records. Sinito, as manager of 12000 Edgewater Drive, signed a new mortgage for $7.5 million that was provided by Citigroup Global Markets and was recorded against the property on July 31, according to Cuyahoga County records. Since the companies merged, there is no recorded sale price for the property, which dates from 1963. Street talk says the building traded for about $8 million, based on a rumored price of a healthy $72,000 a suite. The mortgage partially supports that conjecture, as Citigroup made the loan at about $65,000 per unit. The sign outside the balcony-studded building on the lakefront still says it is managed by Wolf, but leasing personnel tell prospects that Millennia is the new property manager. Through an assistant, Sinito de-
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clined comment. Michael Shemo, Wolf president, did not return a phone call. — Stan Bullard
So you say you want to be an agent … If you ever wanted to be the next Jerry Maguire — or, better yet, Rich Paul, the agent for LeBron James — Peter Carfagna and Case Western Reserve University have a course for you. Carfagna — whose family owns the Lake County Captains, a Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians — will teach “Representing the Professional Athlete,” a free, sixweek massive open online course. The class will begin Sept. 16 and is based on a book Carfagna wrote with the same title. The chairman and chief executive officer of Magis LLC, a Cleveland sports marketing, management and investment firm, calls the class a “virtual reality trip” of what it’s like to manage a professional athlete. Carfagna, also an executive in residence at Cleveland Marshall College of Law and a visiting lecturer on sports law at Harvard Law School, will bring a familiar name to one of his classes. Clint Frazier, the Indians’ first-round draft choice in 2013 and currently a Lake County Captain, will be introduced to students during one of the classes. The course will also feature an interview with the primary financial adviser of NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning, and delve into James’ return to the Cavaliers. The sessions last 75 to 90 minutes — about an hour less than it took Carfagna’s Captains to clinch a Midwest League playoff berth on Aug. 27. — Kevin Kleps
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Out of action: The NFL didn’t cut Josh Gordon — or the Cleveland Browns — any slack. The league suspended the Browns’ top wide receiver for a year for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. The 23-year-old Gordon can apply for reinstatement at the end of the season. In a statement, Gordon apologized to teammates, the Browns organization and fans, but he added, “I am very disappointed that the NFL and its hearing office didn’t exercise better discretion and judgment in my case.” He’s gone: Directors of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. authorized the Cleveland-based mining company to buy back up to $200 million of its common shares outstanding. Separately, the company announced that Gary Halverson — who had been CEO until a slate of directors promoted by hedge fund Casablanca Capital took control of the company — resigned from his position as a Cliffs board member. Halverson had only been CEO since February.
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Raising a young hipster who’s approaching college years? He or she will be very comfortable close to home. CollegeMagazine.com named the top 10 hipster colleges for 2014, and Oberlin College made the list at No. 5. “No list ranking hipster colleges would be complete without Oberlin College,” according to the website. “This private liberal arts college … anchors itself in the history of higher-education as the first college to admit women and people of color alongside white male students,” CollegeMagazine.com said. “Oberlin is a destination for art majors, writers and musicians, who account for the subgroups of Oberlin’s thriving hipster culture.” While some observers “might refute the hipsterness (or hipsterocity?) of such a school because of the obscurity of its rural setting, Oberlin proves that you can take the hipster out of the city but you can’t take the city out of the hipster,” CollegeMagazine.com said. Topping the list is New York University, followed by Bard College, Portland State University and Sarah Lawrence College.
Big shoes to fill Southern Democrats in tight Senate races “want to energize the black vote without relying” on active campaigning from President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in the region. So politicians including Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Cleveland, will step up their campaign game this fall. Politico.com reported that Fudge, who heads the Congressional Black Caucus, and prominent caucus members, including Reps. John Lewis of Georgia, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Elijah Cummings of
Maryland, “are stumping through the South ahead of the midterm elections to rally black voters.” “You have so many people who, unfortunately, see the president as someone they don’t like,” Cummings said. “You need others to come in and talk about the same things he would talk about.” The southern tour is largely focused on North Carolina and Louisiana, where Kay Hagan and Mary Landrieu are trying to fight off spirited GOP challengers. “If we turn out our vote, we win the Senate,” Fudge told Politico.com. “Our votes in midterms are just as important as they are in the presidential. You need to get people in the mindset of voting in every election.”
Fear of flying A study by a Cleveland researcher “suggests air travel may present more risks to infants than you thought,” according to The Wall Street Journal. “Safety investigators are raising warnings about in-flight turbulence, which is the leading cause of injury to children on airplanes and can sometimes catapult lap children into another row,” the newspaper reported. “Separately, a new study that analyzed inflight pediatric deaths found them to be very rare, but almost all of the children who did die aboard planes were under the age of 2 and traveling on long flights between continents.” The Journal said some deaths resulted from known medical problems, but most surprising to the researchers was that in half the deaths the cause wasn’t clear. “What was unexpected was the number of healthy lap infants who ended up dead. It’s a rare event, but this is clearly a pattern,” said Alexandre Rotta, lead researcher on the study and chief of pediatric critical care at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. The study was published in July in the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
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