Cleveland Clinic rolling toward Vegas medical center

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Clinic wants to open a medical center in Las Vegas, where it already manages a brain center.

The clinic owns 12 acres that’s part of a major downtown Las Vegas redevelopment project called Symphony Park. Under a tentative agreement to be voted on Wednesday by the Las Vegas city council, the clinic will come up with plans and financing for its facility by November 2010.

Clinic spokeswoman Erinne Dyer says it’s too soon to say which services will be provided at the new building, next-door to the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The clinic began running that facility earlier this year.

Bill Arent, the Las Vegas acting director of business development, says the new medical center could help fill a need for gastroenterology care.