Washington Adventist trumpets its value to White Oak

A new report financed by the parent company of Washington Adventist Hospital says (are you sitting down?) will be an economic boon for eastern Montgomery County when it moves to a 48-acre site near the new Food and Drug Administration campus in White Oak.

Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University and author of the report, said at a news conference Wednesday that the hospital represented a catalyst for further economic development within the county’s planned East County Center for Science and Technology and Life Sciences Village.