“The collaboration between Howard University and Adventist HealthCare over the past five years has resulted in a number of significant achievements and continued to build upon Howard University Hospital’s legacy of delivering excellent care to our community and leadership in education and research,” said Howard University President Ben Vinson III, Ph.D. “While Howard and Adventist have mutually agreed to discontinue Adventist’s management of the Hospital and Faculty Practice Plan, the University will continue efforts to secure a future partnership. Howard’s plan to build a much-needed new, state-of-the-art Hospital that continues to offer the best of care, academic medicine, research, and training will not be interrupted by the change in management.”
Howard University Hospital (HUH) operations will transition back to Howard University as the MSAs wind down. During this transition Hospital physician care, patient services, student and resident academic training, and research activity will remain unchanged.
“Both Adventist HealthCare and Howard University have each upheld long-standing commitments to serve the Washington, D.C., region with high-quality, compassionate healthcare for more than 100 years,” said Adventist HealthCare President & CEO, John Sackett. “While we were not able to find a solid path forward to a long-term agreement, the partnership successfully resulted in key improvements that will continue to serve all those seeking hope and healing.”
In February 2020, Adventist HealthCare began providing management services for Howard University Hospital. In February of 2023, Adventist HealthCare and Howard University added a second MSA, centered on HU’s employed physician network, called the Faculty Practice Plan. Initiated just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the alliance resulted in successful management of the hospital through that health crisis while ensuring patient and employee safety. Over the past five years, the alliance has yielded key operational improvements, notable facility upgrades, including private rooms and technology modernization, achieving higher quality outcomes, continuing the hospital’s legacy of delivering compassionate, and culturally sensitive care to minority and underserved patients and communities across our region.
As Adventist HealthCare and Howard University work to unwind the management relationship, both organizations are committed to a seamless transition that considers the needs of patients, providers, employees, caregivers, and students in clinical education at every step.
Howard University Hospital, a private nonprofit institution, is the nation’s only teaching hospital located on the campus of a historically Black university. The hospital is one of the most comprehensive health care facilities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that offers primary, secondary, and tertiary health care services, and is designated a DC Level 1 Trauma Center. The hospital’s rich tradition of leadership and service offers medical students a superior learning environment and opportunities to observe or participate in ground-breaking clinical and research work with professionals who are changing the face of health care. Together the medical school and the hospital have served as a training ground for many of the nation’s top African American physicians. Washingtonian and Black Enterprise magazines have identified physicians affiliated with the hospital as leaders in a vast range of specialties.
