Kettering Medical Center

Kettering Medical Center
Kettering Health Network
Geography
Location	, Kettering, Ohio, USA
Organisation
Care system	Private
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Kettering College of Medical Arts
Services
Standards	HFAP accreditation, HFAP Comprehensive Stroke Center
Emergency department	Level II Trauma Center
Speciality	Multispecialty
History
Founded	1964
Links
Website	http://www.ketteringhealth.org/kettering
Other links	List of hospitals in the United States

Kettering Medical Center (KMC) is a faith-based, nonprofit hospital located in Kettering, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1964, it is the focus hospital in the Kettering Health Network with 508 beds, and is directly affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Boonshoft School of Medicine is an affiliated university situated on KMC's campus. In 2009, 2010, and 2011, Thomson Reuters rated the Kettering Health Network as one of the top 10 hospital networks for clinical excellence in the United States.

Eugene Kettering, son of famous inventor Charles F. Kettering, and his wife Virginia were native citizens of Dayton. They moved to Hinsdale, Illinois near Chicago in the 1940s. During the polio epidemic in the 1950s, they were inspired by the care given at Hinsdale Hospital, which would play a vital role in the foundation of Kettering Medical Center. Following the death of his father in 1958, Eugene and his family moved from Illinois back to Dayton to help manage family affairs. Health care was a primary focus of Charles Kettering, so Eugene and Virginia led efforts to open a local area hospital in his honor. Ground was broken on July 7, 1961. In 1964, Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital opened under the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In October 2010 Kettering Medical Center opened the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Heart Hospital, a new wing to the hospital that included a renovated lobby and new main entrance with an outpatient pharmacy, expanded gift shop and bakery.

Kettering Medical Center is part of Kettering Health Network, which includes the following hospitals:

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