Adventist HealthCare has disclosed that it will open two clinics for the uninsured in Germantown. The prenatal clinic is merely being moved from Rockville. There will also be a brand new primary care clinic.
Last fall, Adventist HealthCare opened a primary-care center in Silver Spring in conjunction with Mary’s Center, a nonprofit organization that focuses on immigrant mothers and children. Last year, Adventist bought 49 acres for a new facility about six miles north of Washington Adventist Hospital’s current location.
As their website states, Adventist HealthCare is a non-profit organization whose assets are owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a worldwide Protestant denomination based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Washington Adventist Hospital: in 1907 the first hospital in Montgomery County
These days, when you mention the Adventist hospitals, you have to compare them with Holy Cross. (Just a little friendly rivalry, you see.) Holy Cross states that they were founded in 1963 by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Today Holy Cross Hospital is a 454-bed, not-for-profit, faith-based and mission-driven teaching hospital.
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Bryan - MetSDA // August 15, 2008 at 11:05 pm |
Glad to know that Adventist Healthcare is opening new clinics for the under-privilged. We do have a Christian duty to minister to others around us, especially the poor.