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At least as of a few years ago, from personal family experience, The Cleveland Clinic has the worst internal communications on patient status and care that I have ever seen. Doctors within the system didn't know anything about what other doctors were doing or had done. It was a Charlie Foxtrot while my daughter was in for surgery and on every visit for rehab and follow-on care. Before that a work colleague who was in their care reported the same experience.

Separately, several years ago they acquired and absorbed a local Ohio hospital and health care network which our family GP was in, and which had on two occasions provided excellent surgical care for me. Our GP left her practice in part because of the ham-handed way the CC came in and screwed up what had been an excellent hospital and network of care givers. Everyone in that practice would just roll their eyes when I asked how the takeover was going.

Sorry, I know they've done wonders hosting members of the Saudi royal family for their heart conditions and keeping the king alive well past his call-back-to Allah date. And I've seen and visited their palatial exhibition platforms at the MEDICA Fair in Germany and Arab Health in Dubai. But I'm at a loss to know by what reasonable measure they'd be considered the 2nd "best" hospital in the world.

PS: On most everything I'm a Cleveland booster. NE Ohio is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.