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MedStar Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization. It operates more than 120 entities, including ten hospitals in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area of the United States . In 2011 it was ranked as the private sector employer with the largest number of local employees in the region.
Patient portals benefit both patients and providers by increasing efficiency and productivity. In the United States, patient portals are also regarded as a key tool to help physicians meet "meaningful use" requirements to receive federal incentive checks, especially for providing health information to patients. [2]
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital works closely with the university's research enterprise to help bring innovative therapies from the scientific laboratory to the patient bedside. The hospital, now more than 80 percent renovated, houses multiple patient units, hospital administration offices, and hospital support services.
Indiana University Health, formerly known as Clarian Health Partners, is a nonprofit healthcare system located in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in Indiana, with 16 hospitals under its IU Health brand and almost 36,000 employees. [ 1 ]
MedStar Harbor Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission, an independent, nonprofit organization that evaluates and accredits health care programs in the United States. [7] Harbor Hospital has been awarded the Delmarva Foundation Quality Excellence Award, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to health care quality improvement.
On May 7, 1998, Medlantic Healthcare Group, the Hospital Center's not-for-profit parent company, merged with Helix Health, a group of four Baltimore, MD-based hospitals, making the combined company the largest health care provider in the mid-Atlantic region. Helix/Medlantic was renamed MedStar Health on February 1, 1999.
Logansport State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Logansport, Indiana, United States. Administration Building in early 1900s. It was founded July 1, 1888, as the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane and is Indiana's oldest operating psychiatric hospital. [1] Its first superintendent was Dr. J.G. Rogers.
In 1994, the hospital joined the Helix Health Network. [4] In 1999, Good Samaritan Hospital joined MedStar Health after being affiliated with Helix Health Network. It is the only Catholic hospital in the MedStar network. In January 2010, Good Samaritan named Jeffrey A. Matton its new president, replacing Larry Beck, who retired. [5]