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Kettering Health Main Campus, formerly known as Kettering Medical Center (KMC), [1] is a faith-based, nonprofit hospital located in Kettering, Ohio, United States.Founded in 1964, it is the flagship hospital of the Kettering Health, and is directly affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [2]
Kettering Health is a Seventh-day Adventist non-profit health care system [2] headquartered in Kettering, Ohio, that operates fourteen Dayton and Cincinnati area medical centers, Kettering College, and 120 outpatient facilities.
The hospital, which replaced a small local dispensary, was opened after a fund-raising campaign by the Hon. Charles Spencer MP in October 1897. [1] [2] An operating theatre and extra consulting rooms opened in 1902, an X-ray department opened in 1905 and an eye department opened in 1908. [2]
Founded in 1926, Kettering Health Dayton is a part of the Kettering Health. It is also the parent hospital to Kettering Health Washington Township in Centerville, Ohio. Kettering Health Dayton is one of the largest osteopathic teaching hospitals in the United States, operating several residency training and fellowship programs.
Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) sometimes known as Charles Fredrick Kettering [1] was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. [2] He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947.
The facility, which was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, opened as the Kettering Union Workhouse in 1838. [1] An infirmary was added to the east of the main building in the mid-1890s. [1] It became St Helen's Hospital in 1935 and joined the National Health Service as St Mary's Hospital in 1948. [2]
The Charles F. Kettering House is located on Kettering's west side, on a hill overlooking the grounds of both Kettering College and Kettering Medical Center. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, originally designed by the Dayton firm of Schenck & Williams and built in 1914. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1995 and was rebuilt ...
In 1980, Memorial Hospital and the Sloan-Kettering Institute formally merged into a singular entity under the name Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. [ 19 ] In 1990 it entered an agreement with Amgen to receive royalties for recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, the basis for neupogen and neulasta, earning the institute well ...