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University of Maryland Medical Center

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The University of Maryland Medical Center is a major, innovative teaching hospital in downtown Baltimore that provides a full range of healthcare o more than 250,000 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 conditions and organ transplants. All of its physicians are on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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.

The Medical Center is the academic centerpiece of the University of Maryland Medical System, a regional, non-profit network that also includes two 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 Greenebaum Cancer Center, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. More than half of Maryland’s practicing physicians and other healthcare professionals received training at the Medical Center.

QUICK FACTS (2003)
648 Beds
220 Intensive Care Beds
29,697 Admissions (Including Newborns)
16,284 Surgeries
1,394 Births
156,290 Outpatient Hospital Visits
5,473 Employees (Full & Part Time)
1,028 Attending