Summa Health System Hospitals, is an organization created by the 1989 merger of two outstanding community medical facilities:
Akron City Hospital and
St. Thomas Hospital. Summa, a 963-bed health care system with a long tradition of excellence in patient care, medical education and research, offers a medical resource of exceptional value in Northeast Ohio.
The educational environment at Summa combines the positive aspects of a high quality community hospital system with the academic strengths of a major teaching and research hospital system affiliated with the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. In this environment, fellows are treated as the colleagues of the attending staff, a group of teachers who are genuinely committed to each fellows professional as well as personal development.
You are invited to visit Summa Health System and see for yourself what is offered. You will discover an academic and patient-oriented health care system that provides a superb environment for professional growth and education in a community proud of its heritage and accomplishments.