Holy Cross Hospital is a large hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 71,452 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous place in Maryland, after Baltimore, Columbia, and Germantown.The urbanized, oldest, and...

. The hospital, the second largest in Maryland, was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross

Sisters of the Holy Cross

The Sisters of the Holy Cross headquartered on the same grounds as Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, is one of three Catholic congregations of religious sisters which trace their origins to the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross by the Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau,...

. There are over 1,200 doctors in the hospital.

History

The Hospital started in 1963 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross congregation. The hospital was the first in Maryland to have an MRI machine. The hospital gets roughly 157,000 patients in an average year. The hospital is a member of Trinity Health

Trinity Health (Novi, Michigan)

Trinity Health is a national Catholic health network of 44 acute-care hospitals, 379 outpatient centers, 26 long-term care facilities, and numerous hospice programs and senior living communities in Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Idaho and California...

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Sources

• http://www.holycrosshealth.org/services_main.htm
• http://www.holycrosshealth.org/index.htmlink