MetroHealth Buckeye Health Center

Helping Clevelanders Live Healthy 

 

Cleveland might be one of the most obese cities in the nation, but passionate people like Dr. Robert Needlman at the MetroHealth Buckeye Medical Center are leading a movement to end this issue plaguing our city. As an innovative form of treatment, Dr. Needlman is gardening and cooking alongside patients to show them the importance of good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. This program thrives—along with other chronic disease management programs like diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation and senior health—thanks to a $10 million grant from the Saint Luke's Foundation. The Buckeye Center embodies not only a return of healthcare to the neighborhood of the former Saint Luke's Medical Center, but also an effort to develop effective, replicable models of care for chronic diseases that disproportionately affect people living in urban neighborhoods.    

 

Seeking to improve the long-term health behaviors of the region, this neighborhood health center was designed under the "retail model" and constructed next to the bustling Buckeye Plaza, so people wouldn't need to make a special trip."We place these health centers strategically where people shop or bank, so that seeing a doctor becomes part of a healthy routine," John Sideras, President and CEO of The MetroHealth System and The MetroHealth Foundation explained. It's just one more way MetroHealth helps Clevelanders think healthy every day.

 

For more information about the MetroHealth Buckeye Health Center, click here.