Holy Cross Hospital is a Catholic teaching hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland. It is the second-largest hospital in Maryland and was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. 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."About Us". Trinity Health.

By the Numbers (Fiscal Year 2018)

Revenue: $611 million"About". Holy Cross Health. FY2018. 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

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."Silver Spring Hospital Plans $20,000 Drive". The Washington Post. April 29, 1944. p. 9. On July 22, 1959, plans to build and establish a hospital, named Holy Cross Hospital, in Silver Spring, Maryland, were released to the public."Hospital Plan Is Revealed". The Washington Post. July 23, 1959. p. B6. 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.Reikowsky, Ralph (May 13, 1956). "Silver Spring Hospital Association Silver Spring Hospital Plan Faces Hot Hearing". The Washington Post. p. A20."New Silver Spring Hospital Plan Seen". The Washington Post. November 8, 1956. p. B1. 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."Silver Spring Hospital Site Is Praised". The Washington Post. August 22, 1959. p. B1. The Silver Spring Hospital Association gave its land to the future Holy Cross Hospital."Gift of Land To Hospital Is Challenged: Rights Violation Claimed". The Washington Post. August 5, 1960. p. C2. Montgomery County approved a special exception zoning permit to build the hospital on ten acres of land on Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring."Holy Cross Hospital Zoning Suit Rejected". The Washington Post. January 20, 1960. p. B6. A ground-breaking ceremony was held on May 8, 1960."Ground Broken for Holy Cross Hospital". The Washington Post. May 9, 1960. p. A2. 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."First Arrivals at Holy Cross". The Washington Post. January 12, 1963. p. C3. Since its opening, Holy Cross Hospital had a policy of treating patients regardless of their race or religion."Silver Spring Area Boosts New Hospital". The Washington Post. August 23, 1959. p. A16.

The hospital is a member of Trinity Health, as is Holy Cross Germantown. The hospital was the first in Maryland to have an MRI 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". Holy Cross Health.

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.

See also List of hospitals in Maryland

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