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Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital is a 232-licensed bed acute care facility located in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States. Washington Adventist Hospital provides a range of health services such as cardiac and vascular care, maternity services, cancer care, surgical services including robotic surgery and orthopedics and emergency services. Washington Adventist Hospital operates as part of Adventist HealthCare, a health-care company that includes hospitals, home health agencies and other health care services. Adventist HealthCare is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Erik Wangsness joined Washington Adventist Hospital as president in September 2014.〔http://www.adventisthealthcare.com/about/news/2014/washington-adventist-hospital-names-erik-wangsness-president/#.VT_ZPpOAtc8〕 Washington Adventist Hospital is proposing to relocate to a new facility that would be built on 48-acres of land near White Oak, about six miles from the current location, in the center of its primary service area.〔()〕 The new hospital will partner with the Food and Drug Administration, also located in White Oak, to collaborate on health research and medical innovation. Washington Adventist Hospital would maintain robust medical and health services at its Takoma Park location including behavioral health services, a primary care clinic, physician offices, rehabilitation services and a Federally Qualified Health Center operated by Community Clinic, Inc. ==History== When Washington Adventist Hospital first opened in 1907, it was Montgomery County’s first cardiac center.〔()〕 Today, more than 400 open-heart surgeries and 5,000 interventional cardiology procedures are performed annually at the hospital. The founding of Washington Adventist Hospital by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1907 was the beginning of the Adventist HealthCare system. Originally called the Washington Sanitarium, the hospital began its transition from a long-term to acute-care facility after World War I.〔()〕 It changed its name to the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital and added an acute-care hospital building for surgical, obstetric and emergency cases. Next to the Sanitarium, the Adventist Church built a college now called Washington Adventist University. The first group of nurses graduated from the hospital in 1909; nurses later received their training at the college, a program that will expand with the School of Health Professions, Science and Wellness, a partnership with Washington Adventist Hospital and Adventist HealthCare, to increase the number of health care professionals in Maryland. Dr. Lauretta Kress, wife of the hospital’s medical director, Dr. Daniel Kress, was the first female surgeon in Montgomery County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Montgomery County Commission for Women )〕 In 1916, she opened a maternity ward and during her hospital career delivered more than 5,000 babies. In 1940, the hospital added the Lisner wing; 10 years later, it added a six-story addition. A special procedures room was built in 1959 to study the heart, kidneys, brain and other organs. In 1962, the Intensive Care Unit, the second to operate in a metropolitan hospital, opened. The hospital built a $14 million five-story wing and changed its name to Washington Adventist Hospital in 1973.〔 Developments over the next decades included the opening of a Short Stay Surgery Unit in 1977 and a critical care modernization in the early 1990s. Washington Adventist Hospital opened the first Chest Pain Center in the D.C. area in 1992. In 2005, the hospital created a Vision for Expanded Access to address inequalities in access to health care. As part of the vision, Adventist HealthCare created the Center on Health Disparities In October 2014, as part of a branding initiative to emphasize the Adventist HealthCare system name, the hospital's named changed from Washington Adventist Hospital to Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.adventisthealthcare.com/about/news/2014/new-logo-bright-future-for-adventist-healthcare/#.VTezfZOAtc8 )〕 To ensure access to health care for the under-served in the community, Washington Adventist Hospital has partnered with several community organizations including the Mercy Health Clinic, Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care and CASA de Maryland's Multicultural Center in Langley Park. The Center on Health Disparities also works to train interpreters as Qualified Bilingual staff that are available to assist patients and their families who may not speak English, during a medical encounter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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