Shore Health System history

1997: Leonard and Joan Horvitz Tower opened at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, named in recognition of the Horvitz family for their enduring generosity.

1997: University Hospitals partnered with Southwest General Health Center in Middleburg Heights.

1998: UH became the site of one of the world’s first intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.

2000: Raymond Onders, MD, and colleagues developed an innovative diaphragmatic pacing system (DPS) that has since greatly improved the quality of life for paralyzed people and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

2002: The reporting of an ALLHAT (Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial) study by Jackson Wright, MD, showed that thiazide-type diuretics should be considered first for drug therapy in patients with hypertension.

2003 - PinnacleHealth’s Toxicology Center is founded; it is one of the first of its kind in the nation.

Actor Christopher Reeve receives a DPS at UH in 2003

2004 - The first carotid artery stent is placed.

2004: A transformational gift of an initial $25 million from the Goodman family, which continues to grow today through their fund at The Cleveland Foundation, is recognized in naming the Doctor Donald J. and Ruth Weber Goodman Discovery Center for Clinical Research at UH Seidman Cancer Center.

2005: Cliff Megerian, MD, developed a minimally invasive treatment for glomus jugulare tumors, a rare, non-cancerous skull bone tumor that involves the inner and middle ear.

2006: The UH Medical House Calls program is established, in collaboration with Internal Medicine and Nursing, bringing primary care services to homebound seniors who otherwise would not have access to care.

2008 - PinnacleHealth performs first same-sitting hybrid revascularization (heart bypass surgery and stent placement) with da Vinci robot.

2008: Mark A. Griswold, PhD, developed parallel imaging technique for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which produces clearer, more accurate images in shorter time.

2008: Faruk H. Örge, MD, was the first in Ohio to use endoscopic and microsurgical techniques to drain excess fluid from the eye in infants and young children born with glaucoma.

2008: Ronald and Nancy Harrington and their family made a gift of $22.6 million to support the cardiovascular program at UH; in recognition, the program was renamed UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute.

2009: The Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, under the direction of Andrew Sloan, MD, pioneered a minimally invasive, MRI-guided laser system to treat previously inoperable brain tumors.

2010: The Program of All-inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE), one of only two such programs in Ohio, is established.

2011 - PinnacleHealth's Harrisburg Hospital Emergency Department fully operational after construction update.

2012: The Harrington Discovery Institute was established as a result of a $50 million gift from the Harrington family, the largest gift in UH history to date.

Otolaryngologists Maroun Semaan, MD (left), and Cliff Megerian, MD, in collaboration with neurosurgeon Nicholas Bambakidis, MD, and Gail Murray, MD, performed the auditory brainstem implant on Maggie Gleason, 2014

2015: Jonathan Miller, MD, was the first in the world to demonstrate that DBS has the potential to improve memory after traumatic brain injury.

Additionally in 2016, Doctor Brian Corden, Pediatrician joined Choptank Health forming the Easton Pediatrics practice

2016: University Hospitals is the first in Ohio and the region to offer proton therapy to treat cancer.