This Connecticut-based fitness franchise offers members a little more than just the weights and ellipticals–group classes, tanning, and massage is included in the membership, which starts at $5 a week, after the $10 enrollment fee. There’s also a cardio cinema and smoothie bar at select locations. There are currently six Club Fitness 24 centers, but they’ll be adding another gym Read more...

The Cleveland Clinic is always on the move. In recent months, it signed an affiliation agreement with Central DuPage Hospital, announced it would help a group of physicians in the Washington, D.C., area turn their ideas into marketable inventions, began planning a Medical Mart in Cleveland and completed a $163 million expansion of its Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Read more...

The medical center campus boasts one of the largest ambulatory facilities in the country, housed in a nine-story, 276,000-square-foot tower. This 775-bed teaching and research hospital is affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School. It is the largest healthcare provider in the state, both in inpatient and outpatient services. In Jan. 2011, it Read more...

The third-oldest hospital in the nation, Mass General is celebrating its bicentennial this year. This summer it will open a $579 million, 10-story addition that will increase its bed count by almost 20 percent while adding 19 ORs and a new ED. It is a founding partner of Partners Healthcare System, which has an Aa2 bond rating with Moody’s Investor Read more...

Positioned near the gateway to the isolated Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Munson’s service area stretches into 32 Michigan counties and it has nearly 400 physicians on staff. The medical center delivered a shocker in Sept. 2010, when it pulled out of a planned merger with Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich. New suitors, such as University of Michigan Health Systems, Read more...

This huge hospital is made up of two institutions: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. It is affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College. Two of its physician-scientists, Mehmet Oz, MD, and Nicholas Schiff, MD, ranked in Time Magazine’s annual list of the top 100 most influential people Read more...

The recent limelight on Middle Eastern foods in America, which is overdue and still very much emerging, can in part be traced to Michael Solomonov, the chef who owns Zahav (and about a dozen other restaurants) with Steve Cook. Solomonov, born in Israel, brings a respectful and contemporary translation of that nation’s clearinghouse adaptation of its region’s varied cuisines. Dinner Read more...