Cleveland-based MetroHealth has announced a $42 million gift from JoAnn and Bob Glick in support of efforts to address health inequities in the region and boost community health, especially for women and children. 

The largest gift in MetroHealth's 183-year-history will create the JoAnn and Bob Glick Fund for Healthy Communities in support of programs that promote the health and well-being of Cleveland-area residents, with a focus on programs that address the needs of women and children, and the JoAnn Zlotnick Glick Endowed Fund in Community Health Nursing, which will recognize and support the role of nurses as community leaders in improving health and health care. The fund also will support a professorship in Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, where JoAnn Glick received her MSN in community health nursing.

In recognition of the gift, MetroHealth will name its newest hospital, currently under construction, the MetroHealth Glick Center. In 2019, the Glicks made a $500,000 gift in support of MetroHealth's Students Are Free to Express (SAFE) project, which uses the power of the arts to treat and help reverse the effects of trauma and toxic stress in children, and the MetroHealth Autism Awareness Clinic. Bob Glick is founder and former CEO of retail chain Dots, Inc.

"We hope our gift can begin to change the dynamics of health in Cleveland," said JoAnn Glick, who worked as an RN in inner-city hospitals in Philadelphia and Cleveland. "A person's health and well-being depend on so much more than traditional medical care. MetroHealth understands that and is working to improve our community's health in ways that go far beyond the four walls of a hospital or doctor's office."