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Introducing the Cleveland Clinic Avon Family Health & Surgery Center Director

Cleveland Clinic Avon Family Health & Surgery Center opens this fall.

My name is Dr. Joe Knapp. I’m an Internal Medicine specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, and I will be serving as Medical Director of our new Avon Family Health & Surgery Center.

I have been with Cleveland Clinic since 1999. My family and I have lived in Bay Village since 1997. I currently am the Medical Director of the Clinic’s Westlake Family Health Center. As a local resident, I am deeply committed to the care our patients receive at our facilities.

We are very excited about the center’s opening in December and about expanding the Clinic’s world-class care to the area. The Clinic is investing $93 million to build the 180,000 square foot building. It will feature a 24-hour emergency department, a high-tech outpatient surgery center and a family health center with more than 30 different types of specialty services.

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We also will have an on-site pharmacy, so you won’t have to make extra stops once you receive a prescription. There will also be two state-of-the-art rehabilitation pools in the center.

As the center’s opening gets closer, I’ll be posting more updates and photos of our progress. In the meantime, I’ll periodically post general health information and tips that you and your family can use. Let me know what topics you would like to hear more about.

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I look forward to providing information that can help everyone live a healthier life.

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