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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)

Medical Milestones:

Facilities Milestones:

We Heal. We Teach. We Discover. WE CARE.


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

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