About the University of Maryland Medical Center

2009 UMMC Fact Sheet

Overview:

The University of Maryland Medical Center is a major, innovative teaching hospital in downtown Baltimore that provides the full range of health care to people throughout Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. It is a national and regional referral center for trauma, cancer care, cardiac care, neurocare, women's and children's health and organ transplants.

The Medical Center has the most technically advanced imaging and operating room facilities, and it is a recognized leader in developing and performing minimally invasive surgical procedures. The Medical Center is one of the nation's first teaching hospitals, established in 1823.

Highlights:

Quick Facts
Human Resources:
6,800	Employees
1,065	Attending Physicians
Clinical Activities:
705	Total Licensed Beds
278	Intensive Care Beds
35,982	Admissions
1,577	Births
309,011	Diagnostic Imaging Tests
2,778,219	Lab Tests
19,241	Surgeries
7,534	MD ExpressCare Transport Admissions
Visits:
64,960	Emergency Department (adult and pediatric)
8,265	Shock Trauma Center
154,834	Outpatient - Medical Center
287,029	Physician Offices (faculty practice groups of the University of Maryland School of Medicine)
Hospital Operator: 410-328-8667
Referral Lines
Consumers: 800-492-5538
Physicians: 800-373-4111

Major components include the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center and the University of Maryland Hospital for Children.
The Medical Center is part of the University of Maryland Medical System, a private, not-for-profit network of nine academic, community and specialty hospitals, as well as outpatient sites for primary and specialty care throughout Maryland.
All Medical Center physicians are on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Together, the Medical Center and the School of Medicine train more than half of Maryland's physicians.

Leadership In:

Performing minimally invasive, multiple-vessel heart bypass surgery using a surgical robot. This technique requires a few dime-size holes—no incisions—and enables patients to recover much faster compared to traditional bypass surgery.
Combining minimally invasive heart bypass surgery and stented angioplasty so that people with several blocked vessels can benefit from both treatments during a single operation.
Developing and providing patients with a variety of lifesaving heart pumps for severe heart failure.
Helping people receive kidney and pancreas transplants with one of the nation's largest and most active transplant programs.
First in United States to perform more than 1,000 minimally invasive kidney removals from living kidney donors. That technique, which the Medical Center began using in 1996, has been widely adopted nationally and has increased kidney donation.
Using CT imaging to rapidly diagnose the cause of acute chest pain when patients come to the Emergency Department.
Repairing a life-threatening injured aorta in trauma patients with a minimally invasive technique that spares them from having major surgery.
Developed Maryland's first Brain Attack Team to rapidly evaluate and treat stroke patients with clot-dissolving drugs.
First in region to offer Trilogy, the fastest, most precise and versatile radiation therapy system available, enabling radiation oncologists to effectively target cancerous tumors.
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.
Built one of the nation's first hospital-based training facilities to advance research and training in minimally invasive surgery, the Maryland Advanced Surgical Training, Research, and Innovation (MASTRI) Center.

Our National Profile:

The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center has become a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, because of outstanding research and patient care.
The Leapfrog Group has rated the Medical Center for three years in a row as one of the nation's top-performing hospitals in patient safety and quality of care.
Thomson Reuters Healthcare selected the Medical Center as one of the nation's 100 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals two years in a row.
The American College of Surgeons has given its highest accreditation for bariatric surgery to the UMMC Center for Weight Management.
Get Fit Maryland won a national Innovation in Prevention Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Joint Commission has awarded its prestigious Gold Seal of Approval to the UMMC Brain Attack Center and to the Pediatric Asthma Program. The Gold Seal is given to programs that excel in treating certain diseases.
The American Heart Association has recognized UMMC for its efforts to promote the health of its employees with a Fit-Friendly Company Gold Achievement Award.

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This page was last updated on: January 16, 2009.

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