Hillcrest Hospital
Hillcrest Hospital is a comprehensive-care hospital on Mayfield Road in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Cleveland Clinic Health System.
History and description
Hillcrest Hospital has its roots with Doctors Hospital. Doctors Hospital was founded in Cleveland Heights by a Dr. Richard Renner, who was an osteopathic physician. Doctors Hospital was in an apartment like structure in Cleveland Heights. In 1966, Severance Mall and the City of Cleveland Heights needed land to expand for a proposed Cleveland Heights City Hall. Doctors Hospital was on the site, and had to be moved or torn down. In 1966, Cleveland developer Dominic Visconsi approached Doctors Hospital for land on Mayfield Road near SOM Center. Visconsi had developed Mayfield Heights's Eastgate Shopping Center in the mid-1960s and with I-271 being built, this helped Mayfield Heights grow. In 1966, Doctors Hospital accepted a donation of land from Visconsi and ground was broken for a new Hospital Complex. The Hospital was and is still named Hillcrest Hospital. In 1970, the new Hillcrest Hospital opened for its first patients.