Visit the About Us section on the Johns Hopkins Medicine Web site Johns Hopkins Medicine, created to unify the planning and operations of the University's School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Health System, provides the model for academic health centers striving to balance teaching, research, and patient care, while introducing new models of managed care to contain health care costs. Full information about Johns Hopkins Medicine leadership, finances and related information is available in "Facts and Figures, 2001-2002" (PDF).
Johns Hopkins Medicine includes the following:
Rated best hospital in the nation year after year for excellence in every specialty, this flagship of Hopkins Medicine includes such renowned centers as the Brady Urological Institute, the Wilmer Eye Insitute, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. A treatment magnet for patients from around the world, Johns Hopkins Hospital also provicdes more charity care than any other hospital in Baltimore. Located across from the hospital and connected to it by an underground concourse, the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center includes facilities for diagnostic testing and imaging and outpatient surgery.
This full-service, community teaching hospital is home to one of Maryland's most comprehensive neonatal intensive care units, a sleep disorders center, an area-wide trauma center, the state's only regional burn center, and a geriatrics center that enjoys a national reputation in the field of aging. A state-of-the-art outpatient center offers extensive clinical programs and technologies. The medical center shares its 130-acre, park-like campus with the Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center and two of the National Institute of Health's clinical research centers.
Strategically located between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., Howard County General Hospital in Columbia became a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine in 1998, giving this community hospital resources to improve access and expand services for the communities and physicians it serves. The new emergency room and labor and delivery facilities are the most recent improvements to this medical center, which offers a full range of health care services.
To maintain continuous high-quality care to patients beyond the walls of Johns Hopkins Medicine's hospitals, Johns Hopkins Home Care Group (JHHCG) offers a range of services and products for adults and children throughout Central Maryland. In addition to visits by nurses, physical, occupational and speech therapists, home health aides can social workers, JHHCG can furnish a complete line of durable medical and respirator equipment and supplies, home infusion therapy and pharmaceuticals. Access to a home hospice program allows patients with life-limiting illness to spend their last days in their homes. Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) serves primary medical care needs through a network of 18 health centers statewide. This kind of community-based health care is convenient and affordable for diverse groups of patients: those with private commercial insurance, medical assistance, or who are part of a unique contract for military beneficiaries through the Department of Defense called the US Family Health Plan. JHCP provides internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics and OB/Gyn practitioners, as well as a wide range of other primary care services to over 400,000 patients annually. Priority Partners, a managed care organization for medical assistance beneficiaries formed by Johns Hopkins Medicine and a group of community health centers, has locations statewide and demonstrates Hopkins' commitment to its mission of providing health care to the sick and injured, regardless of the patient's financial status.
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, White Marsh and Cedar Lane
In 1994, Johns Hopkins opened a satellite facility at Green Spring Station for both full-time faculty and part-time faculty physicians in private practice. The conveniently located surburban center offers an urgent-care center as well as an array of diagnostic and treatment services. The Green Spring Station facility proved so successful it expanded into a second pavilion and led to similar suburban centers in eastern Baltimore County (White Marsh) and in Howard County (Cedar Lane). Five of a planned multi-site network of urgent medical care centers for central Maryland, developed in conjunction with Patient First Corporation, are open at Green Spring Station, Perry Hall, Bel Air, Laurel and Owings Mills. Patients can use these facilities for routine injuries and illnesses on a non-appointment basis, 8 a.m., to 10 p.m., 365 days a year.
Patients from afar can access Johns Hopkins care through two special programs, Johns Hopkins International and Johns Hopkins USA. Anticipating the added stress of coming to a strange country for care, International Services assists patients and families from foreign countries with physician appointments, lodging and transportation, interpreter services, financial arrangements, day-care centers, even sightseeing. A similar service is provided by Johns Hopkins USA to patients from cities in this country.
Johns Hopkins Singapore (JHS) brings to Southeast Asia the Hopkins model of medicine, combining research, teaching and patient care. The result of an agreement between Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Singapore government, JHS opened its clinical facility and research center in 1999. Activities focus on diseases endemic to Southeast Asia. | 
