Holy Cross Health (HC)

Description:
Holy Cross Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Maryland. Founded nearly 50 years ago in 1963 by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, today Holy Cross Hospital is a 442-bed, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit teaching hospital caring for more than 196,000 patients each year. Located in Silver Spring, just north of Washington, D.C., and near the Capital Beltway and Metro transportation system, Holy Cross Hospital primarily serves residents of the states two largest jurisdictions, Montgomery and Prince Georges counties.

The hospital offers a full range of inpatient, outpatient and community-based health care services, with specialized expertise in women and infant services, senior services, surgery, neuroscience and cancer. Specialists at the hospital perform more inpatient gynecologic surgeries, deliver more babies and care for more newborns with complex medical issues than any other hospital in Maryland. The hospital addresses the unique needs of seniors through the nations first Seniors Emergency Center which has become a national model as well as a Seniors Surgery Center, a full range of specialized surgical and inpatient services, healthy-aging programs and support services for caregivers.

We, Holy Cross Health and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We carry out this mission in our communities through our commitment to be the most trusted provider of health care services.

Mission:
Holy Cross Health’s team will achieve this trust through:

• Innovative, high-quality and safe health care services for all in partnership with our physicians and others.
• Accessibility of services to our most vulnerable and underserved populations.
• Outreach that responds to community health need and improves health status.
• Ongoing learning and sharing of new knowledge.
• Our friendly, caring spirit.