Kettering Health Dayton, formerly known as Grandview Medical Center, is a 344-bed
teaching hospital
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located on the north side of
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of cities in Ohio, sixth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population of 137,644 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Dayton metro ...
, United States, in the Five Oaks part of the larger area of Dayton View. Founded in 1926, Kettering Health Dayton is a part of the
Kettering Health. It is also the parent hospital to
Kettering Health Washington Township in
Centerville, Ohio
Centerville is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. A core suburb of Metro Dayton, its population was 24,240 as of the 2020 census.
History
Following the signing of the Treaty of Greenville, which opened the Northwest Territory to ...
.
Kettering Health Dayton is one of the largest osteopathic teaching hospitals in the United States, operating several
residency training
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and
fellowship
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programs. The hospital is accredited by the
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program
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(HFAP) and by the
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
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(CARF).
The last year data was made available, the hospital had 12,585 admissions, performed 2,777 inpatient surgeries and 17,481 outpatient surgeries, and its
emergency department
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had 47,164 visits.
Dayton is one of the longest running and best-known osteopathic training hospitals in the country. The community-based hospital has 11 residency programs and one fellowship. Overall, approximately 130 residents are in training at Kettering Health Dayton at any given time.
History
In 1926,
doctors
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Heber Dill, William Gravett and Frank Dilatush founded the Miami Clinic in a two-story house on West Second Street in Dayton to practice
osteopathic medicine
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. The clinic was later renamed the Dayton Osteopathic Hospital. The hospital outgrew its space and in 1947, relocated to a new 65-bed location on Grand Avenue in Dayton. Although the hospital retained the legal name Dayton Osteopathic Hospital, it subsequently
did business as Grandview Hospital and later, Grandview Medical Center. In 1999, the hospital merged with
Kettering Medical Center to form a single network. In 2021, Grandview took the name Kettering Health Dayton.
Growth
According to the ''Dayton Business Journal'' in 2013, Grandview Medical Center, as it was known then, had 203 beds and employed over 1,200 people. By late 2015, the number of beds had risen to 344. The total number of people employed by Grandview was reported in 2019 to be 1,900.
See also
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List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
In 2022, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest Protestant health care provider in the world, with 1,000 facilities around the world. The facilities all together have 36,000 beds and 78,000 employees. All together 1.5 million admissions a ...
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List of hospitals in Ohio
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Healthcare providers with two or more hospital campuses:
Ohio counties without hospitals
As of 2024, the following Ohio co ...
References
External links
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History
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Hospital buildings completed in 1926
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