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The Johns Hopkins Hospital opened in 1889, followed four years later by the School of Medicine, revolutionizing medical practice, teaching, and research in the United States. Recognized as America’s top hospital, this academic medical center is home to the Brady Urological Institute, the Kimmel Cancer Center, the Wilmer Eye Institute and the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Emergency Medicine, one of the youngest academic departments at Hopkins, was recognized as an independent academic department within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1994.
The majority of the residency off-service rotations and approximately half of the Emergency Medicine rotations are conducted at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, taking advantage of the depth of resources and teaching available at this world-recognized institution. The Johns Hopkins Hospital is designated a Level I Trauma Center and is the regional pediatric trauma center and eye trauma center for the State of Maryland.
The Hopkins Adult Emergency Department (ED) includes 21 treatment beds, three critical care rooms, a separate psychiatric treatment area with two seclusion rooms, and a four-chair “disposition unit.” An expanded Urgent Care Center contiguous to the main ED has five beds and two chairs. The Emergency-Acute Care Unit (E-ACU) is part of the ED, but is located on a separate unit on the sixth floor of the hospital. It contains 14 treatment beds to be used for both acute patient management and longitudinal observation of patients. The Adult ED treats approximately 160 patients a day.
The Pediatric ED includes six acute and five intermediate care treatment beds, two critical care beds, and 11 “Harriet Lane” urgent care beds. Daily census in the Pediatric ED is approximately 65 patients. The adult and pediatric emergency departments serve the neighboring East Baltimore population primarily, but also serve a variety of patients drawn to Hopkins by its specialty services.
