Howard County General Hospital
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Howard County General Hospital is a 227-bed, not-for-profit health care provider
located in Columbia, Maryland
. The hospital was opened in 1973. It currently employs over 800 medical professionals and approximately 1,700 people total.
The hospital is an acute-care medical center with women's and children's care, surgery
, cardiology
, oncology
, orthopedics
, gerontology
, psychiatry
, emergency services, and community health education. Since 1998, it has been a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Recently opened facilities are its new four-story, five-level patient pavilion with three inpatient floors as well as the Bolduc Family Outpatient Center.
Health care provider
A health care provider is an individual or an institution that provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to individuals, families or communities....
located in Columbia, Maryland
Columbia, Maryland
Columbia is a planned community that consists of ten self-contained villages, located in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. Creator and developer James W. Rouse saw the new community in terms of human values, not...
. The hospital was opened in 1973. It currently employs over 800 medical professionals and approximately 1,700 people total.
The hospital is an acute-care medical center with women's and children's care, surgery
Surgery
Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
, cardiology
Cardiology
Cardiology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the heart . The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology...
, oncology
Oncology
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...
, orthopedics
Orthopedics
Orthopedics is the study of the musculoskeletal system. The Greek word 'ortho' means straight or correct and 'pedics' comes from the Greek 'pais' meaning children. For many centuries, orthopedists have been involved in the treatment of crippled children...
, gerontology
Gerontology
Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging...
, psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
, emergency services, and community health education. Since 1998, it has been a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Recently opened facilities are its new four-story, five-level patient pavilion with three inpatient floors as well as the Bolduc Family Outpatient Center.