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 hospitals and health systems that comprise UMMS are:
- University of Maryland Medical Center
- One of the nation's oldest teaching hospitals, this 669-bed facility --
located in downtown Baltimore -- is home to the 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
(formerly North Arundel Hospital) - This 286-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.
- Maryland General Hospital - This
238-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.
- Kernan Hospital
- This 133-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.
- 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.
- Mt. Washington Pediatric
Hospital - This 102-bed pediatric and rehabilitation hospital, located
in northwest Baltimore, is providing 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 191 acute care beds in the two hospitals, a 33-bed
skilled nursing facility and a complete range of community-based outpatient
diagnostic and treatment facilities.
This page was last updated on: February 26, 2008.
