Couple’s $18M gift backs OSU heart center

The dean of Ohio State University’s College of Medicine announced Wednesday the formation of a center that officials say will be the first of its kind in the nation to provide patient care, research and education on the often-overlapping cardiac disorders of heart failure and arrhythmia, which affect millions of Americans.

The Bob and Corrine Frick Center for Heart Failure and Arrhythmia is being created as part of an $18 million donation from the restaurateurs from Westerville, Dr. K. Craig Kent told trustees at a meeting of the university’s Wexner Medical Center board. The naming of the new center will come before the full university board of trustees for approval Friday.

The Frick Center, which will be part of Ohio State’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, will allow physicians with different specialties to work collaboratively to treat patients, said Dr. Ralph Augostini, who will direct the new center. It also

“Trouble is still in our land,” King said. “Like then and now, something is happening in our world and our country. The masses of people, including young

will afford researchers with different skills an opportunity to pool their strengths to develop treatment possibilities, he said.

“Hopefully, we’re going to see improvements in survival,” he said. “Heart disease, even though the outcomes are better over the