Maryland system scraps plan to buy academic hospital it manages

Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare is no longer in talks to acquire Howard University Hospital, a 482-bed academic hospital in Washington, D.C. Adventist, which has managed Howard University Hospital since 2020, will phase out its management services agreement by February 2026. Both the hospital’s MSA and the faculty practice plan’s MSA — launched in February 2023 and centered on the hospital’s employed physician network — will end at that time.

“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 University President Ben Vinson III, PhD, said in a news release. “Howard’s plan to build a much-needed new, state-of-the-art hospit