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The Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland (USA). It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins.
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Mission
The mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine is to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research and clinical care. Diverse and inclusive, Johns Hopkins Medicine educates medical students, scientists, health care professionals and the public; conducts biomedical research; and provides patient-centered medicine to prevent, diagnose and treat human illness.
Summary of Activities
Today, Johns Hopkins Medicine includes the original hospital and School of Medicine—ranked #1 and #2 respectively by U.S.News & World Report—along with a health care delivery system organized to meet patients’ needs throughout the continuum of their care.
In addition to two other acute care hospitals—Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Howard County General Hospital—Johns Hopkins Medicine includes long-term care at the Care Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus, home care delivered by the Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, and outpatient care at locations throughout Maryland, including Green Spring Station, White Marsh, and the 16 facilities of Johns Hopkins Community Physicians.
Johns Hopkins continues to set the standard for medical care, education, and discovery around the world. They practice a unique brand of medicine founded in three interwoven pursuits:
They heal
Johns Hopkins is a beacon of hope for people with the most complex and puzzling conditions. The care they provide is exceptional. In the clinic, in the classroom, and in the laboratory, their focus is always on the patients.
They discover
Hopkins physicians and staff are active researchers. They are awarded more research grants from the National Institutes of Health than those at any other institution. When discoveries are made, their physicians and their scientists move rapidly to apply their knowledge to the care of people who are suffering.
They teach
Health care professionals from around the world seek them out for consultation and training on everything from new techniques in transplantation to patient safety.
Their history and heritage are the foundation of a culture that continues to this day, enabling discoveries and advances that are nothing short of remarkable.
History
Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore merchant and banker, left an estate of $7 million when he died on Christmas Eve 1873, at the age of seventy-eight. In his will, he asked that his fortune be used to found two institutions that would bear his name: "The Johns Hopkins University" and "The Johns Hopkins Hospital." At the time that it was made, Hopkins' gift was the largest philanthropic bequest in the history of the United States. Toward the end of his life, Hopkins selected twelve prominent Baltimoreans to be the trustees for the project and a year before his death, sent a letter telling them that he was giving "thirteen acres of land, situated in the city of Baltimore, and bounded by Wolfe, Monument, Broadway and Jefferson streets upon which I desire you to erect a hospital." He wished for a hospital "which shall, in construction and arrangement, compare favorably with any other institution of like character in this country or in Europe" and directed his trustees to "secure for the service of the Hospital, physicians and surgeons of the highest character and greatest skill."
Most importantly, Hopkins told the trustees to "bear constantly in mind that it is my wish and purpose that the [hospital] shall ultimately form a part of the Medical School of that university for which I have made ample provision in my will." By calling for this integral relationship between patient care, as embodied in the hospital, and teaching and research, as embodied in the university, Hopkins laid the groundwork for a revolution in American medicine. Johns Hopkins' vision, of two institutions in which the practice of medicine would be wedded to medical research and medical education was nothing short of revolutionary.
Initial plans for the hospital were drafted by surgeon John Shaw Billings, and the architecture designed by John Rudolph Niernsee and completed by Edward Clarke Cabot of the Boston firm of Cabot and Chandler in a Queen Anne style.When completed in 1889 at a cost of $2,050,000, the hospital included what was then state-of-the art concepts in heating and ventilation to check the spread of disease.
Many medical specialties were born at Johns Hopkins Hospital, including neurosurgery, urology, endocrinology, cardiac surgery,pediatrics and child psychiatry.Two of the most far-reaching advances in medicine during the last 25 years were also made at Hopkins. First, the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of restriction enzymes gave birth to the genetic engineering industry. Second, the discovery of the brain's natural opiates has triggered an explosion of interest in neurotransmitter pathways and functions. Other accomplishments include the identification of the three types of polio virus and the first "blue baby" operation, which opened the way to modern heart surgery.
Organizational Structure
- Ronald J. Daniels
- President, The Johns Hopkins University
- Edward D. Miller, M.D.
- The Frances Watt Baker, M.D. and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D.
- Dean of the Medical Faculty
- and Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Ronald R. Peterson
- President, Johns Hopkins Health System
- and The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Executive Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Publications
Aequanimitas
A four-page update that goes out twice a year to former residents on Hopkins' Osler Medical Service. The newsletter aims to keep them current on Osler activities and former colleagues.
ALS Alert
This three-times-a-year newsletter updates patients, donors and scientists on events at the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins. It features the latest scientific studies as well as activities of Center supporters, mixing human interest stories with insights from experts on managing the disease.
Cardiovascular Report
This quarterly brings the latest news and innovations from the Johns Hopkins Heart Institute to physicians in the mid-Atlantic area. Covering both cardiology and cardiac surgery, its articles focus on clinical care and the research that drives it.
The Cutting Edge
Four times a year, this newsletter aims to humanize the Department of Surgery for faculty, staff, donors and referring physicians while showcasing the extraordinary work taking place under its aegis.
Dome
First printed in 1945, this tabloid is published 10 times a year for employees at all the Johns Hopkins Medicine entities. It highlights news and features about staff, events and issues on every campus.
HeadLines
Designed for friends of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, this newsletter features profiles of donors and the programs they support.
HeadWay
This newsletter from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery features clinical advances of interest to referring physicians.
Hopkins Brain Wise
Produced three times a year for referring physicians, former house staff, alumni, referring physicians and friends of the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, this four-page newsletter highlights the latest research—from the lab and the clinic—and new treatments for psychiatric illness. The publication also offers perspectives on psychiatry from department faculty.
Hopkins Health (Johns Hopkins Medicine International)
This four-page quarterly helps international patients stay in touch with the latest clinical advances, research updates and news from Hopkins' Baltimore medical campus and beyond.
Hopkins Medicine Magazine
Published each fall, winter and spring, this flagship publication of Johns Hopkins Medicine is read by 35,000 faculty, senior staff, alumni, students, donors and friends throughout the world. The magazine is filled with stories about treatment advances and medical research, as well as campus issues and highlights from the medical center's rich history.
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