Columbia, Maryland – Working in coordination with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration, the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, and the D.C. Department of Health, MedStar Health announced today that it will provide medical and nursing leadership and medical, nursing and clinical staffing for the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to serve as an alternate care site to support the District’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by John Rockwood, Senior Vice President, MedStar Health, and President, MedStar National Rehabilitation Network, the medical team will include physicians, nurses,…

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Washington, D.C. – MedStar Health is celebrating the release of the 1,000th recovered COVID-19 positive patient treated across its 10 hospitals in the region. The milestone was reached after a 60-year-old man from Upper Marlboro, Maryland was discharged from MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington D.C. He was admitted to  the hospital with a high fever, cough, shortness of breath and body aches. Only five days later, he was headed home to his family and feeling good. “You’ve got a good team here,” he said. “They worked together. They helped me out. Anything I asked for, they gave it to…

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(Columbia, MD) MedStar Health is committed to delivering the highest levels of quality, safe care for our patients throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Equally important is the safety of our physicians, nurses and associates. The community spread of COVID-19 requires that we take unprecedented measures to ensure these goals. With these important priorities in mind, starting Thursday, March 19 we are postponing all elective procedures and surgeries across MedStar Health. This decision was made after thoughtful consideration and planning, including how we best use our resources to meet the needs of our patients balanced against mitigating risk to our patients,…

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