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Fellow caregivers, today we recognize Founders' Day
and the culmination of our centennial year.
Thank you for celebrating
our 100th birthday with so much pride.
Cleveland Clinic will always honor the past.
We do so to learn the meaning of our traditions
and understand where we're going.
Since 1921, our mission guides us to do more good as a team.
It is what our founders intended
when they introduced a pioneering model of care.
Years from now, I hope that you also cherish
your service with fellow caregivers.
In time, those who come next will be celebrating you
and honoring all of the good that you achieved.
Soon you will stand with the best parts of our history.
We are preserving 100 years of care
on a plaque at our main campus.
It will hang alongside a plaque dedicated
to our founders in 1941, which we are restoring.
We will then bury a time capsule to be opened
by caregivers 50 years from now.
The capsule will contain artifacts that depict our battle
against COVID 19 and messages from today's caregivers.
Now it is my privilege to welcome past
and present leaders to say a few words.
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It's been more than 50 years
since I was chairman of the Cleveland Clinic.
In the 1970s and '80s, we had the largest expansion to date
here in Cleveland on the main campus, and also at Florida.
What's happened at the Clinic in terms of growth since then
is simply spectacular, most impressive is the fact
that you've maintained the Clinic's legacy
for excellence in healthcare.
Congratulations, and thank you for your service.
Cleveland Clinic has always been known for innovation.
As I look to the next 100 years,
I see advancing care for patients everywhere
through research and new technologies.
I could not be more proud of what our caregivers
have achieved and where you are going.
Thank you for putting patients first.
For over 100 years,
patients have been choosing the Cleveland Clinic
for their care because they know it will be safe
with a quality outcome and a great experience.
It's because of you, our Cleveland Clinic caregivers
and in the next 100 years, I have no doubt
that Cleveland Clinic will become the best place for care
in the world and the best place to work in healthcare.
So thank you for everything that you do
to fulfill our mission.
When I think about the future,
I imagine how we are shaping it right now.
Patients will become our lifelong partners in care
with access to us anywhere they are.
As caregivers, we will care for each other
in all aspects of well-being
making this the best place to work.
Through our partnerships and investments,
our communities will become the healthiest in the world.
Finally, the organization will grow to touch every life
that could benefit from the best care possible.
Thank you for supporting
our shared vision of what's to come.
As we end our centennial,
let's hear from the next generation of caregivers
and what they see on the horizon.
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When I envision the future of medicine,
I think the pandemic really highlighted
what work we still have to do
and increasing access to healthcare in our community
and fighting for global health equity as well.
We are going to provide high-class services
to our people, not only in the UAE, but regionally.
It's a home for hope for everyone.
To expand and reach more throughout
all of Canada would be very exciting.
What is it that they need, and how can we adapt
and pivot to meet exactly those needs?
As a medical student at the Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of Medicine, I have had the opportunity
to be part of this incredibly innovative
medical education program.
This idea of being open-minded,
whether it's in education or biomedical innovations
is just a really great attitude to have
for the next generation of patient care.
I've been a nurse now for a little over three months
and I've seen things in these three months
that I didn't even know existed.
The world is our oyster right now
for how technology is going to advance,
and we're advancing quickly.
Working here at Cleveland Clinic Nevada
is really special to me.
We moved out here for my grandfather
who has a neurodegenerative disease.
So I hope that in the future we can expand education
and then even finding a cure.
So my hope for nurses, especially here in Florida
is that we start to work more at the top of our licensure.
That's gonna be the way of the future for nurses
being more specialized, higher level of care,
higher decision-making capacity.
It's really incredibly exciting
to have the Cleveland Clinic here in London,
to be part of a global organization
that is really at the forefront of healthcare
to deliver the novel therapeutics
new technologies for our patients.
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