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Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center is a 266 [1]-licensed bed acute care facility located in Rockville, Maryland. Shady Grove Medical Center provides a range of health services to the community such as high-risk obstetrical care, cardiac and vascular care, oncology services, orthopedic care, surgical services and pediatric care.
In 1972, the General Conference centralized the management of its healthcare facilities, creating Adventist Health Systems. [2] The conferences then transferred the hospitals to the system, creating the entities Northwest Medical Foundation, and Adventist Health Services at the union level.
Adventist HealthCare is a not-for-profit organization based in Gaithersburg, Maryland that employs more than 6,000 people and provides healthcare for more than 400,000 individuals in the community each year. The primary service area for Adventist HealthCare is the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
In 2022, the Seventh-day Adventist Church was the largest Protestant health care provider in the world, with 1,000 facilities around the world. The facilities all together have 36,000 beds and 78,000 employees.
Adventist Health System received from College of Healthcare Information Management Executives the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Award nine years in a row from 2013–2021 for meeting specific IT requirements in four focus areas: infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality and safety, and clinical integration.
The $2.5 million expansion also received aid from federal grants and the Seventh-day Adventist church. Administrators purchased the 232-acre (0.94 km 2 ) Glendover Golf Course planning to reserve 46 acres (190,000 m 2 ) for the hospital and redesigning the remaining land into a 27-hole championship golf course and driving range.
AdventHealth Porter entrance to its cancer care center. On February 16, 1930, Porter Sanitarium Hospital opened with 100 beds.It was named after businessman Henry M. Porter who was inspired to give $1 million and 40 acres to the Seventh-day Adventist Church after being treated at two sanatoriums owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
On July 1, 2020, Mendocino Coast District Hospital signed a 30-year operations agreement with Adventist Health. [1] The hospital's labor and delivery unit was closed following the partnership with Adventist Health after births fell from a high of 250 babies annually in the 1980s to 50 in 2021 with patients opting traveling to Ukiah to deliver.