The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins Medicine has occupied a distinguished place in the field of psychiatry since the opening of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in 1913. Today, we continue our long tradition of excellence in patient care, teaching and research. Founded with a dual mission to serve the surrounding community and to care for patients with the most challenging illnesses, we provide community psychiatric services as well as consultation clinics, inpatient units, and day hospitals in more than a dozen specialty areas. Our clinical research programs, which are closely tied to patient care, range from efficacy and treatment-response studies to clinical trials and epidemiology. The basic research we conduct encompasses bioinformatics, genetics, neuroscience, and molecular biology. All of these efforts strive to unlock the causal pathways to the major psychiatric conditions and to use this knowledge to develop practical means to improve recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of these conditions. The depth of our clinical expertise and the breadth of our research programs allow us to train medical students and to produce the next generation of psychiatrists and scientists to be clinical and research leaders.
HIGHLIGHTS
- We are ranked consistently as one of the top two psychiatry programs in the United States for clinical care according to U.S. News and World Report.
- Our department see a higher percentage of medically compromised psychiatric patient than any other hospital in Maryland
- Our expert team is devoted to the treatment of the chronically mentally ill, the indigent, and the most complex psychiatric cases requiring multidisciplinary treatments
SUMMARY STATISTICS
| Number of physicians: | 87 |
| Number of nurses: | 107 |
| Inpatient Beds | |
| Adult and Young Adult: | 88 |
| Child and Adolescent: | 12 |
Fiscal Year 2008
| Inpatient Admissions | |
| Adult Psychiatry: | 2,425 |
| Child and Adolescent: | 344 |
| All Outpatient Visits: | 22,536 |
| All Day Hospital Visits: | 8,816 |
| Emergency Room Admissions: | 1,215 to JHH, 113 admitted to other hospitals |
| Community Psychiatry Visits: | 14,477 |
OUR PERSPECTIVE
The perspective of the department is explained in a lecture by Paul R. McHugh M.D., former chairman, entitled:
A Structure For Psychiatry At The Century's Turn
The View From Johns Hopkins
Paul R. McHugh M.D.
Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lecture read to Section of Psychiatry, 11 June 1991
Burroughs Wellcome Visiting Professor in Clinical Medicine
Published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1992; 85: 483-487
Click here for a PDF version of the published lecture.
