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Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the almost-90-year-old academy's executive director and president.

The Cleveland Clinic recently started using COVID-19 tests that patients can administer themselves at a drive-through testing site, supervised by a healthcare professional. The nasal swab testing method is meant to be more comfortable for patients and safer for health care workers. But the future of testing might put even more power in the hands of the patient, according to Dr. Dan Rhoads, section head of microbiology at the Cleveland Clinic.

According to a county spokesperson, 27-year old Brenden Kiekisz attempted suicide on Thursday, December 27. He was transported to MetroHealth Medical Center where he died three days later. Kiekisz was taken into custody on Christmas Day and appeared in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court Thursday for a parole violation hearing. Judge Michael P. Donnelly found Kiekisz not in violation and ordered him transferred to Highland Springs, an in-patient treatment facility.

As the federal shutdown continues, furloughed government workers may be facing the pressure of bills and other financial obligations. A local non-profit offering interest-free loans is looking to provide a little relief. Over the course of 115 years, the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Northeast Ohio has offered financial backing for a wide range of needs, from struggling small businesses to individuals stuck in payday loans. Executive director Michal Marcus says the government shutdown was a natural fit.

Officials from Cuyahoga County’s Board of Health will be back out to beaches in Bay Village this week to check for hazards from an algae bloom. The algae at Columbia Park Beach and Bay Park Beach was found last week. Tests for the harmful bacteria caused by algae came back under the hazardous threshold, said Tom Fink from the board of health. An advisory was posted in the park at the end of Columbia Road and the public access was closed off by Bay Village officials.

The intensity of the storm that tore through parts of Cleveland's eastern suburbs on Sept. 13 prompted some Facebook speculation that a tornado had come through. But the National Weather Service reports that this extreme weather event had a different name: a microburst.

For the first time in many years, Cuyahoga County has received a “pass” grade for particle pollution from the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report. The pass/fail grade is set based on federal EPA standards.

Final 2018 open enrollment numbers for the Affordable Care Act are out this week, and 230,000 Ohioans have signed up, a decrease of about 4 percent from last year. Ohio ranks 13th of 39 states in the number of new consumers and re-enrollments. The majority of sign-ups came from people between the ages of 55 and 64.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has scheduled a trip to Cleveland for Saturday as the presidential campaign nears its final week before Election Day. The Democratic vice presidential candidate pulled out of an earlier Cleveland trip last week after a member of her flight crew and a member of her campaign staff tested positive for the coronavirus. Harris stepped away from in-person events over the weekend, hitting the campaign trail again Wednesday with a trip through North Carolina.

MetroHealth announced Tuesday a $42 million gift, which it says is the largest in the hospital system’s 183-year history. The funds from JoAnn and Bob Glick will go toward MetroHealth’s community health programs, especially the needs of women and children.