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Hospital Profiles

The Johns Hopkins Health System combines three acute care hospitals with a network of primary and specialty care practices, outpatient care, long-term care and home care throughout Maryland. Details about the emergency medicine experience in these hospitals can be found below.

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The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is a new, state of the art medical center located on a beautiful 130 acre suburban campus in eastern Baltimore. Uniquely positioned, the facility serves both a urban and county population. Often described as the quintessential Emergency Medicine training ground, the residents rave about their Bayview experience which consists of “core” emergency medical cases. The depth and breadth of the experience is unmatched. The high prevalence of vascular disease, chronic illness, and trauma provide substantial clinical experience and prepares our trainees to practice in any clinical environment.

Staffed by Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, University faculty, residents, and fellows, this community medical center has the best of what Hopkins has to offer.

Bayview Medical Center The Emergency Department (ED) at Bayview sees over 50,000 patients per year and consists of 22 beds, an ENT exam room, OBGYN room, four critical care/trauma bays, and a separate eight-bed Fast Track. The ED evaluates both adult and pediatric patients. The medical center is the State of Maryland adult burn referral center. In addition to being a Level II Trauma Center, the campus is the location for the Hopkins division of Critical Care medicine and the world renowned center for geriatrics. The NIH is currently building one it’s largest clinical and research facilities on the campus.

Howard County General Hospital is a non-academic community hospital located in suburban Columbia, Maryland. Opened in 1973, the original 59-bed short-stay hospital has grown into a 208-bed comprehensive acute-care medical center specializing in women's and children's services, surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, gerontology, psychiatry, emergency services and community health education. In July 1998, Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) joined Johns Hopkins Medicine.

At HCGH, Hopkins Emergency Medicine residents rotate in both the adult and pediatric emergency departments, where they get a true taste of community emergency medicine.

The patient care area includes a total of 48 treatment beds. Within this configuration are three separate treatment areas. The 18-bed adult acute treatment area includes four critical care rooms, one GYN room, two psychiatric seclusion rooms and one isolation room. The adult urgent care area is comprised of 18 beds, incorporating eight fast-track beds, one isolation room and one GYN room. The pediatric emergency care area is comprised of 12 beds, containing one critical care and two psychiatric/non-seclusion rooms. On average, the ED treats 175 patients per day.

Six Years in the making, our spectacular new clinical buildings soon will begin to rise out of the ground. As this artist’s rendering suggest, the massive Children’s Tower and Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower will alter not only the East Baltimore landscape but also the entire city skyline. High on the hill they’ll be visible from downtown and from the waterfront. They’ll light up the night, a glowing beacon overlooking the city.

New Hospital

The June 5 celebration also heralds a new phase: construction. This is actually the biggest hospital single-expansion project in the United States. The innovative buildings will rise on a single foundation, one composed not just of concrete and steel, but also, as noted at the groundbreaking ceremony, of Hopkins ideals.

Coupled with the new Pediatric Medical Office Buildings across Orleans Street, the Children’s Tower and Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower will create the energy and excitement that surely will attract the best faculty and staff for decades to come. Flexible enough to accommodate the yet-to-be discovered innovations of the future, they will assure that our infrastructure is at last on a par with our science. So get ready, this is going to be one great place to work and train.

New Emergency Department Building

In front of the red car, is the entrance to the Adult ED. The adult and pediatric emergency entrances are for walk-ins. Ambulances arrive at a special “authorized vehicle” entranced at the back of the buildings. Scheduled to open in three years, the Critical Care and Children’s Towers will test some of the planned, new ways of delivering care. Here for example, care will be patient-centric.

New ER