Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
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Shady Grove Adventist Hospital is a not-for-profit acute care hospital in Rockville, MD which opened in 1979. It operates as a part of Adventist Healthcare, a faith-based healthcare organization headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
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[edit] Medical Services
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital operates the busiest emergency department in Montgomery County, Maryland, with more than 80,000 visits annually. Its full-service pediatric emergency room was the first in the county when it opened in the 1990s. The hospital serves as a primary health care resource for more than 250,000 local residents.
The hospital offers women’s and children’s services as well as bariatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, wound care, surgical services, and emergency services.
[edit] Germantown Emergency Center
In August 2006, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital opened a free-standing emergency center in Germantown, 9 miles from the main hospital campus. It provides a full range of emergency services, similar to a hospital emergency room, with ambulance support to transfer patients needing to be admitted to the hospital.
[edit] Award
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) named Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, a 2005 winner of the ninth annual Ernest Amory Codman Award, which recognizes excellence in the use of outcomes measurement by health care organizations to achieve improvements in the quality and safety of health care.
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