Cleveland Clinic has plans for Las Vegas, Goodman has choice words for naysayers

Officials with the famed Cleveland Clinic were in town yesterday to discuss their plans to build an advanced health care facility in Symphony Park, just west of Downtown near the World Market Center and County Government Center.

The building would locate adjacent to the Clinic-run Lou Ruvo Brain Institute on city-owned property being donated to the Clinic.

R-J coverage here. Sun coverage here.

And what does Mayor Goodman think about the Clinic building a new facility here?

R-J:

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said Wednesday that he doesn't care whether the local medical community supports or opposes a plan to bring the Cleveland Clinic to downtown Las Vegas..."The good thing is, we don't care," he said.

Sun:

Cleveland Clinic explored coming to Las Vegas about six years ago, but received a chilly reception from the local medical community. Goodman said that “it’s always the same thing” with the doctors who don’t want the Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas.
“They want to preserve their income,” Goodman said. “They don’t want competition.”... Now when physicians tell him the Cleveland Clinic shouldn’t expand in Las Vegas he tells them to “drop dead.”

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