Overview
University of Maryland Medical System Overview
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) was created in 1984 when the
state-owned University Hospital became a private, nonprofit organization. It
has evolved into a multi-hospital system with academic, community and specialty
service missions reaching every part of the state and beyond.
UMMS is a national and regional referral center for trauma,
cancer care, neurocare, cardiac care, women's and children's health and
physical rehabilitation. It also has one of the world's largest kidney
transplant programs, as well as scores of other programs that improve
the physical and mental health of thousands of people daily.
The Medical System generates nearly $3.5 billion in economic activity in Maryland. It has 15,000 employees, approximately 2,300 licensed beds, 115,000 annual patient admissions and gross patient revenues of $2 billion.
The hospitals and health systems that comprise UMMS are:
- University of Maryland Medical Center
- One of the nation's oldest teaching hospitals, this 731-bed facility --
located in downtown Baltimore -- is home to the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center,
the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the University of Maryland Hospital
for Children and the University of Maryland Division of Transplantation.
- Baltimore Washington Medical Center - This 311-bed community hospital, located
between Baltimore and Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, offers a wide variety
of services and was recently named a "Top 100" hospital for intensive
care outcomes by Thomson Reuters.
- Chester River Health System
- Located in Chestertown, Chester River Health System is comprised of Chester
River Hospital Center, a 53-bed acute care community hospital; Chester River
Manor, a 98-bed nursing and rehabilitation facility; and Chester River Home
Care & Hospice. Together these three health care providers offer a continuum
of care to meet the needs of approximately 45,000 residents of rural Kent
and northern Queen Anne's counties.
- Kernan Hospital
- This 138-bed facility, located in Woodlawn, is the state's largest rehabilitation
and orthopaedic hospital serving both adults and children. It also houses
the University of Maryland Complementary Medicine Program.
- Maryland General Hospital - This
213-bed teaching hospital offers a full spectrum of health care for more than
110,000 people annually. Maryland General has been providing superior and
accessible community health care in West Baltimore and Midtown for more than
a century.
- Mt. Washington Pediatric
Hospital - This 102-bed pediatric and rehabilitation hospital, located
in northwest Baltimore, provides specialty medical care to infants and
children with complex medical needs.
- Shore Health System - Formed in
1996 with the affiliation of Dorchester General Hospital in Cambridge and the Memorial Hospital at Easton, Shore Health System serves Maryland's Eastern Shore communities with a total of 199 acute care beds in the two hospitals -- which includes the 20-bed Requard Center for Acute Rehabilitation at Memorial Hospital -- and a complete range of community-based outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities.
- University Specialty Hospital -
This 180-bed chronic care hospital, located in downtown Baltimore, focuses
on the complex needs of chronically ill patients. It has the region's largest
pulmonary ventilator program, and Maryland's only coma emergence program.
- In July, UMMS announced a strategic affiliation with Upper Chesapeake Health System that is expected to lead to a full merger by 2013. Upper Chesapeake Health includes Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air and Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace. The leading health care system and largest private employer in Harford County, Upper Chesapeake Health offers a broad range of healthcare services, technology, and facilities to the residents of northeastern Maryland.
This page was last updated on: November 24, 2009.
