Fire Department Wins Award From Cleveland Clinic

The Cleveland Heights Fire Department won the Excellence in Professional Standards Award.

Cleveland Heights Fire Department was honored with the Excellence in Professional Standards Award by Cleveland Clinic at the 2013 EMS Awards for life saving measures performed on a 3-month old infant in cardiac arrest. Due to their CPR and Advanced Life Support (ALS) efforts they were able to achieve a normal heart rate and pulse by the time the infant was transferred to the hospital.  --Information provided by Cleveland Clinic

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Cleveland Heights Firefighters Honored By Cleveland Clinic

Six firefighters received the Excellence In Professional Standards Award for their actions during a call in which they resuscitated an infant

Six members of the Cleveland Heights Fire Department were recognized during the Cleveland Clinic's annual EMS awards. Lt. John Thomas and Firefighters Ryan Coughlin, Jacob Newpher, Thomas Huffman, Matthew Urie and John Marjak received an award for Excellence in Professional Standards. According to the Clinic, the award is given to those who EMS personnel who continually perform to the best of their ability and set the standard of professional conduct each and every day they wear their uniform. Specifically, these six men received the award for their actions on a medical call when they resuscitated an infant. The Cleveland Heights Fire Department congratulated their firefighters on their Facebook page. "I am very proud of them and of all of…

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Local Students’ Award-Winning Work Now on Display at the Cleveland Clinic eXpressions™ Art & Language eXhibit!

Celebrate the accomplishments of Beaumont School students: Laura Carr, Kimberly Clark, Lizzy Corrado, Erin O'Brien, Johanna Tomsick, and Lylah Wolff by eXperiencing the intersection of research and creativity!

Shaker Heights Resident Joins Cleveland Clinic Board of Trustees

Stewart A. Kohl joins a list of other new members, including Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Cleveland Browns.

Top Stories of 2012

Top Story of 2012: Marcus Thomas Staffer Becomes Kidney Donor For Coworker

Cleveland Heights resident Jim Sollisch was one of 11 people who offered to donate a kidney to Marcus Thomas partner and chief idea officer Joanne Kim.

Editor's Note: Cleveland Heights Patch's No.1 story of 2012 was published on July 30.  Joanne Kim tried to talk him out of it. What if Jim can’t play basketball after donating his kidney? What if one of his kids needs one? And Jim Sollisch is not Kim’s husband. He’s not her brother or her cousin. Sollisch is Kim’s coworker. Technically, Kim is his boss. Some people cringe at the thought of chipping in $5 for their boss's holiday gift. Sollisch happily gave a vital organ. While Kim and Sollisch talked about the experience on a patio outside of Marcus Thomas, the Cleveland-area advertising agency where they both work, they weren’t holding hands to comfort each other or crying. They laughed, bantered and cracked jokes. “I felt I was able to …

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CureSearch Walk Empowers Cleveland Heights Couple, Helps Them Cope

Cynthia Van Lenten and Steve Crowley lost their daughter in 2005 after she battled cancer for three years. But they haven't stopped fighting, and have organized an event to raise money into research.

Cynthia Van Lenten and Stephen Crowley say there are two ways of dealing with tragedy. The Cleveland Heights couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Olivia, lost a three-year battle with cancer in 2005. The family saw specialists in Cleveland and as far as New York and Memphis, searching for the best care for their little girl. “You don’t necessarily want to get back into the world of childhood cancer because it’s so frustrating and such a bad memory, and I think people who have children who survive probably want to get as far away from it as possible,” Van Lenten said. “And you can understand why people who’ve lost a child don’t want to go back there and want to move on.” That was one way they could have coped, and no one would blame them. “One …

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Marcus Thomas Staffer Becomes Kidney Donor For His Coworker

Cleveland Heights resident Jim Sollisch was one of 11 people who offered to donate a kidney to Marcus Thomas partner and chief idea officer Joanne Kim.

Joanne Kim tried to talk him out of it. What if Jim can’t play basketball after donating his kidney? What if one of his kids needs one? And Jim Sollisch is not Kim’s husband. He’s not her brother or her cousin. Sollisch is Kim’s coworker. Technically, Kim is his boss. Some people cringe at the thought of chipping in $5 for their boss's holiday gift. Sollisch happily gave a vital organ. While Kim and Sollisch talked about the experience on a patio outside of Marcus Thomas, the Cleveland-area advertising agency where they both work, they weren’t holding hands to comfort each other or crying. They laughed, bantered and cracked jokes. “I felt I was able to do something helpful,” said Sollisch, a Cleveland Heights resident and Heights High grad…

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Student Shout-Out: Japera Benson

The 16-year-old Heights High student wrote an essay about Alzheimer’s disease from her grandmother's perspective. It is now on display at the Great Lakes Science Center

Japera Benson hadn’t realized her grandmother was losing her memory. But then her grandma forgot who the 13-year-old was. “In high school, I really started to see the change in her memory … I remember talking to her, then she would not remember who I was and ask me, ‘Do you have kids?’ or ‘Did you drive over here?’ or ‘Where do you live? I haven’t seen you in years,’” Japera, now 16, said. Since then, sometimes she’ll remember her. Other times, she’ll think Japera’s one of her sisters who now lives in Alabama. Japera, a student at Cleveland Heights High School, said she doesn’t get frustrated, but others around her do. “I just see her as my sweet grandma who just happened to lose her memory ... It just makes me sad to see her be like that…

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Video: Cleveland Clinic Men Mark the End of Movember at Quintana's

After growing out their mustaches for a month, they celebrated the end of Movember with a straight razor shave

Some people run 5K’s or man food banks. This November, scores of guys around the country made their sacrifice by growing facial hair above their upper lip to participate in Movember. They sported staches for the month to raise awareness and money for men’s health charities. Thursday night, men from the Cleveland Clinic marked the end of Movember with a straight razor shave at Quintana’s Barber and Dream Spa in Cleveland Heights.

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Aging Well

When Senior Adults Should Ask For Help at Home

How to decide when home care assistance is needed

The majority of senior adults prefer to live in their homes for as long as possible, rather than move to a group living community. However as we age, many important daily tasks become harder to complete independently. Dressing, bathing, driving, and shopping can become difficult for seniors to do on their own. Many seniors can also experience feelings of loneliness and isolation when they are unable to get out of the house as often as they used to. Home health care is a possible solution for seniors who want to live at home but recognize that it is either difficult, or unsafe, for them to live completely alone anymore. Home health care usually falls into two categories — non-medical and skilled. Non-medical care workers help with what are …

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