City: Rockville, MD

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (301) 279-6000

Address: 9901 Medical Center Drive

Description: This full-service hospital serves a huge swath of Montgomery County, seeing 148,000 patients in its ER annually. Open since 1979, the 943-bed hospital delivers the second-highest number of babies in the state each year. A full range of other inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services are also offered, including a level III neonatal intensive care unit and a coronary-care unit. The Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for Children operates as the county’s only emergency room especially for kids, and the Pediatric Same-Day Surgery center is specially designed to accommodate young patients for basic procedures.