Program areas at Medstar Washington Hospital Center
See schedule omedstar Washington Hospital Center's is the city's largest and busiest Hospital, providing acute care services to the communities of northeast Washington, d.c. and the surrounding areas. In addition to the program service expenses listed above, mwhc incurred $338.1m of management and general expenses in providing services to its communities. It offers primary, secondary and tertiary health services to adult and neonatal patients and is a major referral Center for the most complex tertiary services. The Hospital is also home to Medstar, a nationally verified level i trauma Center with a state-of-the-art fleet of helicopters and ambulances and operates the region's only adult burn Center. Medstar Washington Hospital Center has consistently been recognized as one of the nation's top 50 cardiovascular centers by u.s. news & world report. It is the only Hospital in the Washington, d.c. Region with a nationally ranked cardiology and heart surgery program. It was also named as one of the best regional hospitals and its nephrology and urology care was named as high performing specialties by the publication. Medstar Washington Hospital Center's cancer institute offers cancer treatment, therapies and access to cutting-edge clinical trials. It also offers comprehensive ambulatory care through a wide range of medical and surgical specialty outpatient clinic programs. Medstar Washington Hospital Center operates a comprehensive stroke Center as well as the region's only joint commission-certified cardiac ventricular assist device program. The Hospital is known for innovation and is often the first in the region to utilize new lifesaving equipment and procedures.since march 2020, Medstar health has cared for 1 in 4 covid-19 patients in the region. Operating as one Medstar and aligning with guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) and local departments of health, Medstar health covid-19 preparations and response are guided by three critical drivers: providing a safe care environment for patients and associates; mitigating community spread of covid-19; and ensuring operational continuity to fulfill our core mission of caring for our communities.these efforts have evolved and transitioned in multiple way throughout the duration of the covid-19 pandemic, leading to a number of integrated care approaches in place today: utilization of Medstar health urgent care, evisits and our digital capabilities to create access, rapid stand-up of testing sites, use of telehealth for primary care and follow-up visits, utilization of Medstar health home care to safely manage the care continuum needs for patients, deployment of innovative laboratory approaches integrated with occupational health to better support associates managing through covid-19 exposures, stand-up of a buddy program where non-clinical associates take shifts to provide support services for nursing and care teams, establishment of community mobile units and clinics for covid-19 vaccinations/boosters, supply and maintain personal protective equipment (ppe), n95 respirators, covid-19 vaccines and boosters, execution of a mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy resulting in 99% of associates and physicians vaccinated against covid-19, and administration of more than 253,000 covid-19 vaccinations/boosters across the region.
Medstar Washington Hospital Center provided $77.4m in health professions education in fiscal year 2022. This category includes training in graduate medical education, and education for physicians, medical students, nurses, and other health professions.
Medstar Washington Hospital Center provided $159.1m in subsidized (mission driven) health services in fiscal year 2022. These critical services, which are driven by community needs, operate at a loss. They address priorities primarily through disease prevention and improvement of health status. Services provided include outpatient primary care, psychiatry, trauma, diabetes and stroke treatment, emergency care, women's health, and cardiology.