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Cleveland Clinic has always made patient
care its centerpiece, and it takes to heart its motto: “Care
for the patient as if they are your own family.” Historically,
Cleveland has also been known for medical breakthroughs and
organ transplants, including the first face transplant in the
United States. In 2019, it broke its own organ transplant
records—897, up 3 percent from the year before—including the
world’s first single-port robotic kidney transplant, which
allows for a single small incision and limits the need for
postoperative opioids for pain relief. Cleveland’s health
system encompasses 18 full-service locations systemwide.
In 2018, there were 7.9 million outpatient visits, from 185
countries, across all of its campuses. My.ClevelandClinic.orgCLEVELAND CLINIC
Massachusetts
General HospitalOver 200 years old and the origi-
nal and largest teaching hospital of
Harvard Medical School, Massachu-
setts General Hospital is known for its
cutting-edge research. Mass General
doctors put the insights they gather
from that research to good use when
diagnosing and treating the nearly
1.6 million patients who walk through
its doors annually. With an annual
budget of more than $850 million for
research and more than 1,200 clinical
trials taking place at any time, it is no
wonder that Mass General publishes
more research articles in prestigious
medical journals and receives more
federal funding than any other inde-
pendent hospital in the country. Its re-
searchers’ ɿndings range from linking
sleep timing and teen obesity to tag-
ging cells using laser particles so as to
better understand the growth of—and
FROM LEFT: COURTESY OF CLEVELAND CLINIC treat—tumors. MassGeneral.org
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