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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council <br />Monday, November 18, 2019 <br />Page 3 <br />Dr. Yoram Moyal <br />730 SOM Center Road <br />Mayfield Village, Ohio <br />Thank you Council members. The Mayor's not present. Thank you Mayor. My main comments <br />are by the proposed project we will hopefully get through here. As you all know, medicine is <br />changing. Medicine used to be primary in-patient medicine. A patient went into the hospital to <br />get a procedure done. They had surgery done and normally they would stay a few days in the <br />hospital and if things are well they would be discharged and go home. The gist of healthcare <br />now is changing from an in-patient to an outpatient procedure. Most of the healthcare dollars <br />today are spent primarily in the healthcare but they are really pushing our patients to be <br />outpatient for procedures and so on. <br />The new investment in healthcare today especially in surgical healthcare, they allow procedures <br />to be done as an outpatient in a very expeditious way, very safe and very very clean without <br />infections, without complications. Those are done in a medical health center and procedure <br />center where we do cataract surgery, colonoscopies, certain orthopedic procedures are at the <br />urgent care center or surgery center. We are planning to with this proposed healthcare center or <br />surgery center, outpatient center, in a facility which we can go along with our medical building. <br />We have a large medical building which is sitting in the back of our property. It's about 51,000 <br />square foot. 47,000 square foot is occupied with medical professionals. We have been with <br />Mayfield Village for almost 19 years. We have been providing healthcare for a lot of the <br />residents here, a lot of outside residents who do come here. There's really no outside or close <br />outpatient urgent care surgery type or one -day procedure for people to come in, have their <br />surgery, and be discharged home to their own safe environment. Most of our residents have to <br />travel out of the city into other cities and then drive back. We think that this center would be an <br />enhancement to our care here. <br />We are a partnership with University Hospital which is obviously one of the top healthcare <br />systems here in the city and also nationally. Some people like the Clinic. That's perfectly fine, <br />but I think that having this center here in our front lot would enhance two major things. One is <br />healthcare delivery to our patients, one day delivery that would be also very advantageous to our <br />own patients here in the Village and also our residents that live in the Village. We of course <br />have worked with the city before. We will continue to work with the city. We have worked <br />pretty closely with the architect of the city. We will try to be the least intrusive as possible. <br />Everybody is not right for healthcare. It is excellent healthcare delivery through the system that <br />we have. Hopefully you can extend it. It would be a tremendous asset to the city and to our <br />residents and I think it's a very wonderful project. Thank you. <br />Council President Saponaro asked, Dr. Moyal, you had mentioned, you said the term urgent <br />care? <br />Dr. Moyal clarified, urgent care facility. The outpatient surgeries. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, thank you. I just want to be clear. This is a surgery center, <br />not an urgent care center. <br />