Kettering Health Network, located in Kettering, Ohio, is a not-for-profit network of eight hospitals, Kettering College, and over 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio with nearly 12,000 employees and 2,100 physicians. Patients have access to high quality maternity care, state-of-the-art cancer fighting technology, along with Ohio’s leading heart hospital, as well as revolutionary brain and spine surgery. In the spirit of Seventh-day Adventist health care ministry, Kettering strives to be innovative and to convey God’s love in a caring environment, along with transforming the healthcare experience with world class health services for every stage of life.
Charles F. Kettering was born and raised on a farm in Loundonville, Ohio. Through adversity, poor eyesight, Charles earned an engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1904. Charles had a fascination with technology. Charles married Olive Williams in 1905 and they had one son, Eugene. At the time he was employed by National Cash Registry (NCR) in Dayton, OH. While working at NCR he became …show more content…
As the healthcare industry has changed so has Kettering Medical Center. Once a one hospital building, now owner of 8 operating non-profit hospitals which employees over 12,000 employees, a 4 year college, a group of physician (ambulatory) practices known as Kettering Physician Network (KPN) with over 1,200 physicians and over 2,000 employees with-in the physician offices, retirement communities, nursing homes, and more than 75 outpatient facilities, along with two freestanding emergency departments, and a centralized cancer center that provides state-of the-art cancer treatment and holistic healing, the latest in imaging service available. The simple vision of Eugene and Virginia has come along ways. Simplistically know as Kettering Medical Center has now evolved into Kettering Health Network to include all the above mention
Charles F. Kettering was born and raised on a farm in Loundonville, Ohio. Through adversity, poor eyesight, Charles earned an engineering degree from The Ohio State University in 1904. Charles had a fascination with technology. Charles married Olive Williams in 1905 and they had one son, Eugene. At the time he was employed by National Cash Registry (NCR) in Dayton, OH. While working at NCR he became …show more content…
As the healthcare industry has changed so has Kettering Medical Center. Once a one hospital building, now owner of 8 operating non-profit hospitals which employees over 12,000 employees, a 4 year college, a group of physician (ambulatory) practices known as Kettering Physician Network (KPN) with over 1,200 physicians and over 2,000 employees with-in the physician offices, retirement communities, nursing homes, and more than 75 outpatient facilities, along with two freestanding emergency departments, and a centralized cancer center that provides state-of the-art cancer treatment and holistic healing, the latest in imaging service available. The simple vision of Eugene and Virginia has come along ways. Simplistically know as Kettering Medical Center has now evolved into Kettering Health Network to include all the above mention