History
MedStar Health associates serve more than a million and a half patients annually. MedStar contributes approximately $111 million in payroll tax to the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia each year. Additionally, MedStar Health provides more than $260 million in charity care and community benefit on an annual basis.
In 1998, Medlantic Healthcare Group merged with Helix Health, a group of four Baltimore, Md. hospitals. Helix/Medlantic was renamed MedStar Health on February 1, 1999.
On July 1, 2000, Georgetown University Hospital became part of MedStar Health.
On February 1, 2008, MedStar Health merged with Montgomery General Hospital, Montgomery County's oldest acute care hospital. Montgomery General was the eighth hospital in MedStar Health’s network and the first hospital in Montgomery County to join the healthcare system.
In September, 2009, St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown, Maryland merged with MedStar Health, becoming the ninth hospital in the system, and the first in Southern Maryland.
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