About the University of Maryland Medical Center

2007 UMMC Fact Sheet

Overview:

The University of Maryland Medical Center is a major, innovative teaching hospital in downtown Baltimore that provides a full range of health care to more than 300,000 patients each year from Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. It serves as a regional referral center for the most serious and complicated health problems in adults and children, including cancer, trauma, heart disease, neurological disorders and organ transplants.

As one of the nation's first teaching hospitals, the Medical Center has its roots in the Baltimore Infirmary, a hospital built in 1823 at Lombard and Greene streets by doctors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Highlights:

Quick Facts
Human Resources:
6,600	Employees
1,076	Attending Physicians
Clinical Activities:
669	Total Licensed Beds
265	Intensive Care Beds
34,448	Admissions
1,483	Births
287,815	Diagnostic Imaging Tests
2,862,283	Lab Tests
17,743	Surgeries
6,514	MD ExpressCare Transport Admissions
Visits:
64,982	Emergency Department (Adult and Pediatric)
8,384	Shock Trauma Center
165,458	Outpatient - Medical Center
296,537	Physician Office Visits (Faculty practice groups at the University of Maryland School of Medicine)

The Medical Center is the academic centerpiece of the University of Maryland Medical System, a regional, non-profit network that also includes four community hospitals and three specialty hospitals, as well as outpatient sites for primary and specialty care throughout Maryland.
The Medical Center is composed of University Hospital, the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the University of Maryland Hospital for Children.
All of its physicians are on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Over half of Maryland's physicians and other health care professionals received training at the Medical Center.

Medical Milestones:

First hospital in the Mid-Atlantic region to perform minimally invasive, beating heart, multiple-vessel coronary artery bypass surgery with the assistance of a surgical robot, the da Vinci S Surgical System. Patients now can have multiple-vessel heart bypass surgery with only three tiny incisions -- each smaller than a dime -- and a much faster recovery.
Opened a comprehensive Surgical Simulation and Technology Center, one of the nation's first hospital-based centers of its kind, to advance training and research on minimally invasive procedures.
One of only 50 acute care hospitals listed as the nation's top performers in patient safety and quality of care by the Leapfrog Group.
First in the United States to perform 1,000 minimally invasive kidney removals from living kidney donors. This technique, which the Medical Center began using in 1996, has been widely adopted nationally and has increased living kidney donation. The Medical Center has been a leader in minimally invasive surgery since 1989.
Developed one of the nation's largest and most active kidney and pancreas transplant programs.
National leader in implanting the lifesaving Jarvik 2000 heart pump.
First medical center in the country to implant the newest type of heart pump, the VentrAssist, as part of a nationwide pilot study. It is designed to assist the heart's main pumping chamber in patients with end-stage heart failure.
Pioneer in combining minimally invasive coronary artery bypass surgery and stented angioplasty, allowing patients with several blocked vessels to benefit from both techniques during a single operation in a specially outfitted operating room.
First in region to install Trilogy, the fastest, most precise and versatile radiation therapy system available.
First hospital in Maryland to perform a "domino" liver transplant, an unusual lifesaving procedure that benefits two people in need of a liver.
First hospital in Maryland to be designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission. The designation signifies adherence to rigorous standards in caring for stroke patients.
National leader in using CT imaging to rapidly diagnose causes of acute chest pain. The 20-second, non-invasive test is performed in the Emergency Department.
First in Maryland to offer people with liver cancer a targeted radiation treatment called SIR-Spheres, in which microscopic radioactive beads are infused directly into the liver to shrink tumors.
First in United States to use Statscan, a new, low-dose X-ray scanner that provides full body images in 13 seconds for Shock Trauma Center patients.
One of the first to use a new lifesaving stent to open clogged arteries in the brain. The device, inserted in a non-surgical procedure, opens blockages that cause stroke.
Separated 6-month-old conjoined twins from Africa who recovered to lead normal lives.
Developed the state's first Brain Attack Team to rapidly evaluate and treat stroke patients with new clot-dissolving drugs.

Facilities Milestones:

The 380,000-square-foot Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building has one of the nation's most advanced surgical facilities (the OR of the Future) and diagnostic radiology facilities. The building also houses new adult and pediatric Emergency Departments, spacious high-tech units for Medical Intensive Care, Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care and Telemetry and a new floor devoted to patients having general and cancer surgery.

Opened the Roslyn and Leonard Stoler Pavilion, to provide cancer patients with multidisciplinary outpatient care.

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This page was last updated on: March 25, 2008.

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