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20th century
Adventist HealthCare began with the founding of Washington Sanitarium by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1907. The health facility treated illness and disease, and taught patients the benefits of exercise, a balanced diet, rest and fresh air.
Following World War I, the facility changed its name to the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital and added an acute care hospital building for surgical and emergency cases. Next to the Sanitarium, the Adventist Church built what is now Washington Adventist University. The first group of nurses graduated from the hospital in 1909; nurses later received their training at the college.
In 1973, Adventist HealthCare launched Adventist Home Care Services, which provides home nursing care to patients in their homes.
In December 1979, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital opened as the first hospital in northern Montgomery County, Maryland.
In 1997, Adventist HealthCare acquired Hackettstown Community Hospital, now known as Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, a community hospital based in Hackettstown, New Jersey and serving North Jersey.
21st century
In 2016, Hackettstown joined Atlantic Health System in Morristown, New Jersey.
In 2000, Adventist HealthCare acquired Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health, a freestanding psychiatric hospital, which offers an array of inpatient, outpatient and partial hospital services for adolescents and adults. It includes the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children, which was founded in 1983.
In 2001, Adventist HealthCare partnered with Kessler Rehabilitation Corporation to open the Kessler-Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital, a freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital now known as Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation. The hospital is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) International for care of hospitalized patients in four specialty areas — brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, and amputation.
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In 2006, Adventist HealthCare opened the freestanding Adventist HealthCare Germantown Emergency Center in Germantown, Maryland. It provides the same full-service emergency medical care that patients can receive at a hospital emergency department in a convenient, stand-alone location just west of I-270 across from the Germantown Town Center on Rt. 118. Patients who need to be admitted are transferred to Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center.
In October 2014, as part of a branding initiative to emphasize the Adventist HealthCare system name, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital was renamed Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center and Washington Adventist Hospital was renamed Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital. In 2015, both hospitals were named by the Joint Commission as "Top Performers on Key Quality Measures" for a third consecutive year.
In March 2015, Adventist HealthCare opened its first urgent care center in Rockville, Maryland, and announced plans to open two additional facilities in Germantown and Laurel in Maryland in 2016.
In December 2015, Adventist HealthCare received approval to relocate Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital to the White Oak/Calverton area of Montgomery County. The move expanded access to care and strengthened the partnership between Washington Adventist Hospital and the Food and Drug Administration in collaborating on medical and scientific issues. The new hospital will be called Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center and will open in the summer of 2019.
In March 2019, Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation received approval for its White Oak Certificate of Need from the Maryland Health Care Commission, allowing Rehabilitation services to move to Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in 2020.
In July 2019, Adventist HealthCare and Nexus Health/Fort Washington Medical Center announced they signed an agreement to have Fort Washington Medical Center join Adventist HealthCare. Fort Washington Medical Center will continue to serve patients in Fort Washington, Oxon Hill, Temple Hills, and parts of southeast Washington D.C.
In August 2019, Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital changed its name and moved after students and faculty from Howard University helped to move 76 patients and equipment to the newly built Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center. Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center features 180 all-private patient rooms and serves patients in Montgomery, Prince George's, and surrounding counties. Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center is located at the center of the Life Sciences Gateway, neighbors with the Food and Drug Administration On August 26, 2019, a 24/7 Adventist HealthCare Urgent Care opened in the former Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital Emergency Department.
In 2020, a Medical Pavilion opened in conjunction with Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center. The Medical Pavilion houses physician offices, which eases access between physicians and patients.
In February 2020, Howard University Hospital and Adventist HealthCare signed an agreement, to have Adventist HealthCare manage the hospital for three years. Anita L. A. Jenkins, former president of Sycamore Medical Center, which is part of Kettering Health, would be the new chief executive of Howard University Hospital.
On June 5, 2025, Adventist HealthCare announced that it would not be purchasing the hospital, and that the partnership would come to an end in February 2026.
From Wikipedia’s article on Adventist HealthCare, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4