[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 9221-9222]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           IN RECOGNITION OF PARMA COMMUNITY GENERAL HOSPITAL

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 14, 2011

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Parma 
Community General Hospital. In June 2011, Parma Community General 
Hospital will be celebrating 50 years of service. Their mission has 
been to provide excellent, personalized care incorporating their core 
values of integrity, community partnership, commitment and stewardship, 
collaboration and teamwork and individual growth and development.
  In August 1961 the hospital was founded. Within a few years it was 
fully accredited and joined the Cleveland Hospital Council. Parma 
Community General Hospital is a successful, not-for-profit, community 
hospital. It is a state-of-the-art facility in a close-to-home, 
friendly, community setting.
  The hospital has grown extensively, adding floors and new Intensive 
Care and Coronary Care units in the 1970s and several medical office 
buildings in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1982 the hospital expanded health 
education programs by opening the Health Education Center. In the 1990s 
they added the ElderCenter Adult Day Care which was designed as an 
alternative to nursing homes and a Child Care Center for hospital 
employees and the public. It has an award-winning Home Health Care 
program, and an EMS Education Program that has endeavored to meet the 
region's safety needs for the past 25 years.
  In the 1990s, Parma Hospital grew further, adding the Pain Center, 
expanding the inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Center, modernizing

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the Small Wonders Maternity Center and adding the Behavioral Center for 
Older Adults, a geriatric psychiatric unit. Parma Hospital won its 
first of numerous awards for excellence in orthopedics the year before 
the 1999 opening of The Heart Center, a cardiovascular intensive care 
unit that would garner its own array of awards, including the 100 Top 
Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care more than once and the fastest heart 
attack care in the region throughout the Code STEMI program.
  The past decade brought the addition of outpatient oncology care in a 
community setting and the opening of Residential Seasons of Life 
Hospice on Pleasant Valley Lake. Parma Hospital also enlarged its 
Emergency Department, adding an innovative Doc at the Door program for 
efficient triage, and built a new Intensive Care Unit. Outpatient 
radiology services were brought to both Ridge Park Square in Brooklyn 
and WellPointe Pavilion, offering outpatient services. Other 
specialized patient care areas include: physical, occupational, speech 
and respiratory therapies, laboratory and radiology, the Bariatric 
Center, inpatient and outpatient care and surgery, inpatient care 
floors including oncology, medical and surgical, inpatient 
rehabilitation unit, diabetic counseling and sports medicine.
  In 2010 Parma Community General Hospital President and CEO Terrence 
G. Deis was named to the list of top Hospital and Healthcare Industry 
Leaders to Know. Mr. Deis is proud that the hospital, with nearly 2,000 
employees, has flourished as a community partner and credits the hard 
work and integrity of the employees, management and medical staff with 
the success of Parma Community General Hospital.
  Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in recognition of Parma 
Community General Hospital's 50th anniversary and in honor of those 
past and present whose unwavering dedicated service will be the legacy 
of Parma Community General Hospital.

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