History of St. Agnes
Hospital
St.
Agnes has a rich tradition that dates to 1862 when the hospital first opened.
Its original mission was to provide nursing care of the poor. The facility
moved to its present location in 1876 and was reorganized as a full-service
hospital in 1906. Shortly thereafter, the residency program was established.
Today St. Agnes Hospital is a full-service community
teaching hospital with residency programs in a number of medical and surgical
specialties. Its primary mission continues to be service of persons who
are poor and those who are medically underserved.
The hospital is known in the state of Maryland for the
highest quality of clinical care and consistently receives very high scores
for JCAHO accreditation, the gold standard by which hospitals are rated.
Graduates of the residency training program are highly
sought after for careers in primary care or for subspecialty fellowship
positions in the top academic centers of the country. St. Agnes is the
home to the first Chest Pain Center in the world. The various departments
are often participants in nationwide clinical trials such as C-Port, ALLHAT,
I-ELCAP and GUSTO.
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