Catching up to the medical mart race
Posted on November 17, 2009 at 10:55 amMedCity News pulls together the various threads shaping the efforts in Nashville, Cleveland and the Big Apple to open massive medical convention spaces. The synopsis: New York has the tenants, Cleveland thought it had the land and Nashville thinks it’s going to get state incentives.
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Medical trade center site ‘kind of finalized’
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 7:51 am
David Osborn, who’s helping Crow Holdings and Market Center Management Co. develop their plans for a Nashville medical trade center, tells Milt Capps the location and basic design of the massive facility is a month away.
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Cleveland City Council says yes to medical mart
Posted on May 18, 2009 at 10:51 pmOn the day that plans for a downtown Nashville medical trade center were formally unveiled, the City Council in Cleveland voted as one to fund a similar venture there.
With public funding and a site in place, Cleveland should maintain the advantage over other cities hoping to build a medical mart. The latest, Nashville, Tenn., is working with an MMPI competitor from Dallas. But it took Cleveland almost four years to get to this point.
“I’m pretty sure it will take them some time too. We’ll probably be up and running by that time,” said Jackson.
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Health care: A little bit country or a little bit rock ‘n’ roll?
Posted on at 2:34 pm
There’s something smoldering in Cleveland. And no, it’s not the Cuyahoga River. It’s bitter gnawing jealousy.
In an utterly asinine quote, which this reporter somehow managed to miss the first time through the Cleveland NewsNet5 item, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones stated the following:
“I’m not terribly worried about the boast and the brag of those from Nashville. If we were building something for the Grand Ole Opry, they would have the edge on us. But Nashville is not known as an epicenter for health care as we are.”
While you let the mind-boggling hilarity of that sink in, we’ll go ahead and suggest that officials from the Nashville Health Care Council add Commissioner Jones’ name to its distribution list for the 2009 Health Care Family Tree. And maybe they could even staple a little note to it saying something like, “Your move, chief!”
To say that Nashville is not an epicenter of health care simply defies logic. Without getting into the broader issues involved, it makes nothing other than perfect sense that such a development would naturally seek out Nashville.
It’s not like they were out to make a television vehicle for this guy or a movie about a perennially down-and-out, yet lovable baseball team. Because in those cases, Cleveland might have an edge on us.
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