SYMPHONY PARK

8/10/14
This summer, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health celebrates its fifth anniversary of offering treatment, research opportunities and no-cost social services to families in Las Vegas living with degenerative brain disorders.
The center was founded by Larry Ruvo to provide world class care to his fellow Nevadans who he believed shouldn’t have to tolerate the stress he and his mother underwent in caring for his father, Lou, who died of Alzheimer’s. Today, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health’s medical providers have managed 50,000 patient visits and its social services team has provided no-cost education and support to more than 3,000 individuals who have accessed more than 15,000 visits to patient and family service programs.
At the time of its opening, the core disease treated by the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health was Alzheimer’s. Today, the center also treats Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, multiple system atrophy and multiple sclerosis.
In just five years, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has served our community by:
Joining Cleveland Clinic, one of the country’s top four hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of best hospitals
Building one of the largest Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials program in the country with more than 30 trials
Employing five of the 10 best neurologists listed in Las Vegas Life magazine’s 2012 and 2013 Top Doctors
Providing more than 8,000 hours of free education to students ranging from K-12 field trips through medical residents
Photo: On July 13, 2009, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health’s first patient, Randy Capurro, accompanied by wife, Netty, is welcomed by then Mayor Oscar Goodman and Keep Memory Alive Chairman and Founder Larry Ruvo
More information is online at clevelandclinic.org/brainhealth.