James Hekman, MD, will be the medical director of the Cleveland Clinic's new Lakewood Family Health Center, according to Crain's Cleveland Business. Here are five thoughts:
1. Dr. Hekman's role will focus on ambulatory and emergency department care in Lakewood, Ohio. The Cleveland Clinic will begin construction on the new center in the fourth quarter of 2016, with mid-2018 set as the projected completion date.
2. The new facility is expected to house an emergency department, imaging center, family medicine department and several primary care physicians and medical specialists.
3. Dr. Hekman and his team currently practice in Lakewood four days a week and plan on providing full time care once the new center opens.
4. Dr. Hekman is an advocate for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. He joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2008 at the Beachwood Family Health and Surgery Center. He assisted in the designing and launching of the Center for LGBT Care in the Chagrin Falls Family Center, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
5. Dr. Heckman graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in California.
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