page_title: History of Cleveland Clinic
section_title: Becoming a system
hierarchical_section_title: History of Cleveland Clinic / Growth of specialization / Becoming a system
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the main entrance and infinity pool in front of Cleveland Clinic's Miller Family Pavilion
context_page_description: The Cleveland Clinic was established in 1921 as a group surgical-medical practice with its own dedicated hospital in Cleveland, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
context_section_description: Loop was appointed chairman of the Board of Governors in 1989. In the late 1990s, Cleveland Clinic merged with nine regional hospitals: Marymount Hospital, Lakewood Hospital, Fairview Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, South Pointe Hospital, Euclid Hospital, Health Hill Hospital, and Ashtabula County Medical Center (an affiliate hospital). (Medina Hospital joined the system in 2009; Akron General Hospital became an affiliate in 2015.) 
  For access from local communities, Cleveland Clinic began building what are now 18 Family Health and Service Centers across the region. These facilities offer primary care, specialty services and outpatient surgery.
  Other Cleveland Clinic programs and facilities dating from 1998 to 2004 include the Sherwin Research Building, Children's Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the Surgery Center, Neurological Imaging Center, Cleveland Clinic Sports Health, Intercontinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center. During this period also, Cleveland Clinic invested in electronic medical records system that now links all its sites. Cleveland Clinic Florida (begun in Ft. Lauderdale in 1988) opened a medical campus in Weston, Florida, with a hospital, outpatient clinic and 24-hour emergency room.
  Loop launched a capital campaign in 1997 with a $16 million lead gift from the Norma and Al Lerner and family. This campaign raised $191 million to build the Lerner Research Institute, Cole Eye Institute, and Taussig Cancer Center. Another gift from the Lerner family enabled the launch of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine in 2004. A $44 million Center for Genomics Research was completed in 2004, along with a new parking garage across the street from the 1921 building. In 2001 Loop announced plans for a new home for heart and vascular services. The campaign to finance the project continued after his retirement in 2004.
caption: Patient drop-off roundabout and fountain at Cleveland Clinic's main entrance
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