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March 18, 1998
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Johns Hopkins Medicine, known worldwide for medical research and specialized medical care, unites the physician faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the renowned facilities of The Johns Hopkins Health System to cover a full spectrum of activities in teaching, research and patient care.
The $1.5 billion enterprise includes two acute care hospitals -- The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center -- as well as all other aspects of an integrated health-care delivery system: longterm care at the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center, home care delivered by the Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, and outpatient care at the 17-site ambulatory care practice known as the Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation, the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center and Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station and other locations throughout Maryland. Special programs for corporations range from Executive Health and Occupational Health services to Employee Health Programs (EHP).
Hopkins Medicine's two hospitals include 1,356 licensed acute care beds and 369 skilled nursing and other special beds. During FY96, more than 55,000 patients were discharged from its acute care beds, and it provided $73 million in uncompensated care. With 14,500 people employed by its components, Hopkins Medicine is the largest private employer in Maryland.
In survey after survey, when American doctors are asked where they would send their family for care, they name Johns Hopkins in every specialty. Johns Hopkins Hospital is rated "best hospital in the nation" year after year. Consumers in the greater Baltimore region ranked Hopkins Hospital number one in a 1996 survey conducted by the National Research Corporation. Patients from afar access Hopkins care through two special programs, International Patient Services and Hopkins USA. In the past 12 months, more than 6,000 international patients have come to Hopkins.
Surveys consistently rank the Hopkins School of Medicine one of the top two medical schools in the nation, and it receives more federal research funding than any other. Recent research advances by Hopkins faculty offer hope in the battle against cancer and heart disease, AIDS and sickle cell anemia, and disorders of the brain and behavior, vision and hearing. In the past five years, the School of Medicine has been successful in forming 12 new companies and entering into hundreds of licensing agreements in order to speed discoveries from the lab bench to the bedside. The Hopkins Bayview Research Campus is home to government as well as private research corporations, attracted by the Hopkins tradition of excellence.
Johns Hopkins Medicine was formed when trustees of the Health System and University agreed to delegate some of their authority to an alliance in order to compete more effectively in the era of managed care. The president of the Health System, Ronald R. Peterson, now reports to the CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Edward D. Miller, M.D., who is also dean of the medical faculty.