Ruvo Center Soon to Open
The Ruvo Center anchors the Medical Office District of downtown Las Vegas' Symphony Park. It will provide breaking research and treatments for brain disorders such as Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's Disease. I will keep my eye on this great addition to the Las Vegas medical community.
Marshall Allan at the Las Vegas Sun is also keeping an eye on the Center.
As the vision for the Ruvo Center for Brain Health evolved in the past decade, its most fantastic ambition became the curing of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain disorders.
But from the get-go, the founders knew they first had to provide emotional and logistical support for the patients, families and friends who deal with the repercussions of the grueling diseases.
Today, the Ruvo Center is moving aggressively on its quest to cure and treat the diseases, in partnership with the renowned Cleveland Clinic as the more expansive Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. It will begin seeing patients in July at a facility that, for now, is best known for its daring Frank Gehry design.
Last week, the clinic turned its focus to the emotional and logistical needs of patients and caregivers.
Two dozen experts gathered as a sort of brain trust to help the Ruvo Center address the oft-forgotten social needs of caregivers and patients living with Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
The people who attended say the assembly was unprecedented, drawing experts from the likes of the Cleveland Clinic, Duke University, the Alzheimer’s Association. They came at the invitation of the Ruvo Center.
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