Holy Cross Hospital is a
501(c)(3) not-for-profit teaching hospital
A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...
with revenue of $611 million
[ located in ]Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, in practice it is an edge city, with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 ce ...
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The hospital, the second largest in Maryland, was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross
The Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) are one of three Catholic congregations of religious sisters which trace their origins to the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross by the Blessed Basil Anthony Moreau, CSC, at Le Mans, France in 1837. ...
. The hospital is part of Holy Cross Health, which is a member of Trinity Health of Livonia, Michigan, one of the largest health care systems in the country.
By the Numbers (Fiscal Year 2018)
* Revenue: $611 million[About]
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* Licensed Hospital Beds: 529 (adult, pediatric & neonatal services)[
* Employees: 4,100][
* Physicians: 1,575][
* Total Patient Visits: 240,371][ (excludes healthy newborns)
* Inpatient Discharges: 36,146][ (excludes healthy newborns)
* Outpatient Visits: 191,680][
* Emergency Center Visits: 104,719][
* Births: 10,779][
* Surgeries: 12,966][
* Health Center and Primary Care Visits: 49,195 ][
* Net Community Benefit: $60 million ][
* Community Benefit Encounters: 338,518 ][
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History
In 1944, a group of people, including Joseph Hayes, Fred L. Lutes, Lee H. Robinson, Genevieve Wells, and I.C. Whitaker, incorporated the Silver Spring Hospital Association in order to build a hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland. On July 22, 1959, plans to build and establish a hospital, named Holy Cross Hospital, in Silver Spring, Maryland, were released to the public. Montgomery County gave 25 acres of land on Forest Glen Road, but 14 of the acres were later given up in order to build the Capital Beltway
The Capital Beltway is a Interstate Highway in the Washington metropolitan area that surrounds Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and its inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia. It is the basis of the phrase " inside ...
. The Silver Spring Hospital Association had wanted to build a hospital on the remaining land, but it could not raise sufficient funding to do so until the Sisters of the Holy Cross congregation agreed to a large financial contribution.["New Hospital Dedicated in Silver Spring". ''The Washington Post''. January 7, 1963. p. A6.] Additional funding came from a federal grant and from individual donors. The Silver Spring Hospital Association gave its land to the future Holy Cross Hospital. Montgomery County approved a special exception zoning permit to build the hospital on ten acres of land on Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring. A ground-breaking ceremony was held on May 8, 1960. Holy Cross Hospital was dedicated on January 6, 1963.[ Mrs. Robert K. Duckett was the first patient admitted to Holy Cross Hospital, and her daughter Dora Jean Duckett was the first baby born at the hospital. Since its opening, Holy Cross Hospital had a policy of treating patients regardless of their race or religion.
The hospital is ]
member
of Trinity Health, as is Holy Cross Germantown. The hospital was the first in Maryland to have an MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves ...
machine. In 2008, the hospital created an emergency center specifically designed to treat seniors who had acute health problems that were not life-threatening.
In 2015, the hospital concluded an expansion on the same footprint in Silver Spring.[Historic Expansion]
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Transportation
Holy Cross Hospital is serviced by Ride On bus number 8. Washington Metro service on the Red Line is also available at the nearby Forest Glen station
Forest Glen is a side platformed Washington Metro station in Forest Glen, Maryland, United States. The station was opened on September 22, 1990, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Its opening coin ...
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See also
*List of hospitals in Maryland
This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of Maryland, sorted by location.
Annapolis (Anne Arundel County)
*Anne Arundel Medical Center
Baltimore
* Baltimore VA Medical Center
* Grace Medical Center
*Johns Hopkins Hospital
*Johns Hopkins Ba ...
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