Area Hospitals

BALTIMORE

Johns Hopkins Hospital

600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
(410) 955-5000
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/

Johns Hopkins Hospital, an integral part of Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a 1,085-bed medical, research and teaching facility serving patients from the Baltimore area and around the world. There are 9,294 employees on staff, including 1,714 attending physicians. In one recent year, more than 790,000 outpatients received treatment at the hospital; 47,275 patients were admitted. The emergency room treated more than 86,000 patients.

Johns Hopkins Hospital is one of the top hospitals in the nation. U.S. News and World Report ranked it first in three specialties: Ear, Nose & Throat, Rheumatology and Urology. The hospital was also ranked in the top 16 hospitals in 13 other specialties. It was the first hospital in Maryland to receive the Magnet Designation for Nursing Care, which was bestowed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Johns Hopkins Medicine is one of the leading health care systems in the United States. It has a presence around the world, with more than 25 strategic projects underway in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Nineteen current or former faculty members at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have received the Nobel Prize.

Johns Hopkins Medicine includes 4 academic and community hospitals, 4 suburban health care and surgery centers, and 25 primary health care outpatient sites that together treat more than 540,000 patients every year. It also provided more than 231 million dollars in uncompensated care last year.

Specialty services at Johns Hopkins Hospital include the Brady Urological Institute, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders, Ear, Nose and Throat, Gynecology, Heart and Heart Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pediatrics (Johns Hopkins Children Center) Psychiatric and Behavioral Sciences, Rheumatology, Transplantation, Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center and Wilmer Eye Institute.

Clinical Services at the hospital include the following: Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Brain Tumors, Cancer, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Children's Health, Dentistry, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Eyes, Gastroenterology, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Head and Neck Surgery, Hearing, Heart, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Liver Tumors, Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pediatric Oncology, Physical Medicine/Rehabilitation, Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Social Work (Medical & Surgical), Surgery, Urology and Vascular Medicine and Surgery & Endovascular Therapy.

Johns Hopkins Medicine continues to improve its facilities. Currently, a 994-million dollar project to create an all-new Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore is nearing completion. In addition, a new children's center with 560 private rooms, 33 operating rooms and an enormous emergency department is schedule to open in 2011.