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Brain Institute to take first patient Monday

Leila Navidi

Construction continues in July on the Frank Gehry-designed building that will house the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas.

By Nicole Lucht (contact)

Friday, July 10, 2009 | 4:14 p.m.

Lou Ruvo Brain Institute Exterior

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The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute will see its first patient Monday morning, according to Maureen Peckman, CEO of Keep Memory Alive, the fundraising arm of the institute.

The patient side of the two-part center is mostly finished, but the nonpatient side — designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry — will not open until January.

The land and building of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Brain Institute are valued at $100 million. The center is the brainchild of liquor distributor Larry Ruvo, whose father, Lou, died of Alzheimer’s disease in 1994.

Within a year, the clinic expects to have 2,000 patients, and it is designed to eventually see 8,000 a year, according to Dr. Randolph Schiffer, director of the Center for Brain Health at the Cleveland Clinic.

First look at clinic design made Khachaturian think (2-27-2009)
Gehry's design elevates awareness of Alzheimer's disease, research (2-17-2009)
Frank Gehry's approach to architecture 'different' (2-11-2006)
Adding architect to delay project (3-3-2005)
Renowned architect will design Alzheimer's center (3-2-2005)

Discussion: 3 comments so far…

By Billua

7/10/09 at 7:06 p.m.

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This is great news for Las Vegas!

A very well written article!
By medeak

7/11/09 at 3:31 a.m.

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Why would architect design this building for people with spatial problems and more?
By hooloogoo

7/11/09 at 9:44 a.m.

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...Well I hope Governor Gibbons is shuttled off to the laboratory for the instituter's first frontal lobotomy....Best wishes Jim..Get normal..
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