Affiliated Hospitals

All four institutions are major teaching hospitals of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.  They all provide diagnostic capabilities of fluorescein angiography, ultrasound, and visual fields.  Several hospitals have access to digital retinal angiography, electroretinography, corneal topography, specular microscopy, and other specialized equipment.

University Hospitals of Cleveland (UH)

Case Western Reserve University Department of Ophthalmology

Site Director: William J. Reinhart, MD

11100 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, OH 44106-5068

Phone: 216-844-8577

Fax: 216-844-7117

E-mail: Eyes_Res@po.case.edu

Web : http://www.caseeyes.com

 

University Hospitals of Cleveland is the home site for the residency program.  All the administrative offices and personnel are located in the Department of Ophthalmology, which also houses the departmental library.  Departmental research facilities are located in two places, the Wearn Building in the main hospital and expanded new research facilities in the Bert and Iris Wolstein Building.

 

Residents are based at UH while they are on their subspecialty rotations in all years but may also travel to the satellite clinics affiliated with UH for clinics and surgeries.  There are also 3 afternoon resident clinics scheduled each week, with regularly scheduled specialty clinics in Cornea, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Retina, and Plastics.  The consultation service, which covers the floor, ER, Pediatric ER, and outside referrals is run by the chief UH resident.  Overnight call is shared by the first and second year residents for this hospital only, with back-up coverage provided by the UH chief.  Click here for a sample call schedule.

MetroHealth Medical Center (Metro)

Site Director: Thomas J. Steinemann, MD

2500 MetroHealth Drive

Cleveland, OH 44109

Phone: 216-789-4253

Web: http://www.metrohealth.org

 

MetroHealth Medical Center is the county hospital for Cuyahoga County, a 600-bed facility and Level I trauma Center, located on the near west side of Cleveland with a high colume of inpatients as well as outpatient visits.  New outpatient buildings were completed in 1993, including an ambulatory clinic for ophthalmology with complete diagnostic services.  An active trauma service and burn unit are located here.

 

The Ophthalmology department at Metro is staffed by full-time attendings with additional community physicians staffing additional specialty clinics.  Both Case Western and Cleveland Clinic residents share duties at this site, comprising a 6 person team (one resident per year from each program).  First year residents share the day call consult pager and see patients in clinic.  Second year residents share all laser and Plastic surgeries as well as see patients in clinic.  The co-chiefs run the clinic and alternate surgical weeks.  Overnight call is shared by the first and second year residents for this hospital only.  The Cleveland Clinic chief resident takes back-up call for the weeknights while the Case Western chief resident covers the weekends.  Click here for a sample call schedule.

St. Vincent Charity Hospital (St. Vincent's)

Site Director: Marc Abrams, MD, PhD

2351 East 22^nd Street

Cleveland, OH 44115

Phone: 216-363-2523

Web:  http://www.svch.net

 

St. Vincent Charity Hospital is a 480-bed University Hospital Health System-affiliated community hospital in the downtown area with significant exposure to community-based part-time faculty.  It has an active Emergency service and a 1,100 square food Ophthalmology clinic located on the first floor of the Health Care Center. Specific operating rooms are used almost exclusively by ophthalmology.  There is an active referral service.

 

A 3 person resident team runs the clinic at St. Vincent.  There is a lot of general ophthalmology as well as interesting pathology seen at this clinic.  The first years are responsible for consults and patient care, second years perform lasers, extracapsular cataract and strabismus surgeries in addition to consults and clinic.  The chief resident performs the majority of surgeries generated from the clinic.  Day call is shared by the first and second years, overnight call is shared with the junior residents at the VA.  Click here for a sample call schedule.

Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA)

Site Director: Edward N. Burney, MD

10701 East Blvd.

Cleveland, OH 44106

Web: http://www.cleveland.med.va.gov

 

The Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center contains 475 beds, including nursing home care.  The Center houses a major operating room with new surgical facilities, and active outpatient services serving northern and central Ohio.  The Center is a major referaal center for anterior segment surgery, ophthalmic plastics, and retina-vitreous disorders.  A new outpatient services building, including expansion of the Ophthalmology clinics was completed in 2001.

 

The 4 person resident team at the VA Hospital get a weekly mix of clinical and surgical experiences.  The chief resident works closely with each of the residents in different settings.  The first year is responsible for helping the chief resident ensure that all surgical patients get the proper pre-operative assessments and arrangements.  One of the second years works directly with the chief resident in taking care of post-operative patients.  The other second year performs all laser under the direction and supervision of the chief resident and attendings.  The chief resident is responsible for approving the referrals from the associated VA Optometry clinics as well as being primary surgeon on the majority of cases performed at the VA.  Day call is covered by the Optometry service and overnight call is shared by the junior residents for both the VA and St. Vincent Hospitals.  Click here for a sample call schedule.