MedStar Health’s physicians, nurses, researchers, and support staff are all focused on one thing—caring for you and your family. Our 30,000 associates and 6,000 affiliated physicians support MedStar’s patient-first philosophy of care, compassion, clinical excellence, and customer service. They proudly care for more than half a million patients each year across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region in their hospitals, urgent care and ambulatory care facilities, and physician offices. Their extensive network of providers enables them to offer the highest quality, most advanced care—close to where their patients live and work. And, because they are committed to their not-for-profit mission, they remain dedicated to reinvest in the health and wellness of all the communities they serve. MedStar Health combines the best aspects of academic medicine, research and innovation with a complete spectrum of clinical services to advance patient care. Their areas of clinical excellence include cardiology and cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, cancer, transplantation, rehabilitation, and emergency and trauma services.