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Founded in 1823 as the Baltimore Infirmary, the
University of Maryland Medical Center is one of the nation's oldest teaching
hospitals. Located on the west side of downtown Baltimore, the Medical Center
provides highly specialized tertiary and quaternary care for the entire state
and region and comprehensive care for the West Baltimore community.
All of University of Maryland Medical Center's doctors are faculty members
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the nation's fifth oldest
medical school that is a recognized leader in biomedical research and medical
education.
With the construction of new buildings, extensive renovations, and the installation
of cutting-edge technologies, the Medical Center's patient care facilities
have been transformed into state-of-the-art, yet cheerful settings. The newest
facilities include:
The Shock Trauma Center (1989), with its own surgery
suites, intensive care units, CT scanners and other sophisticated equipment
located on site for immediate use.
The Homer Gudelsky Building (1994), whose dramatic,
sun-filled, 12-story atrium houses comprehensive programs and dedicated
patient floors for neurocare, cardiac care, cancer care and organ transplant.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building (2002), a new
patient care building with facilities for cancer patients, adult and pediatric
emergency departments, and future-focused operating rooms equipped with
the most sophisticated technology.
The Medical Center cares for more than 30,000 inpatients and 200,000 outpatients
each year, and has many world-renowned specialized programs.
The R Adams Cowley Shock
Trauma Center is the world's first and foremost center dedicated
to saving lives of people with severe, life-threatening injuries sustained
in auto crashes, violent crimes and other traumatic incidents.
It treats more than 7,000 critically ill and injured patients each year who
arrive by helicopter or ambulance -- and more than 96 percent survive. The
facility provides the highest level of trauma care in Maryland. Shock Trauma
is the designated statewide referral center for head and spinal cord injuries,
multi-system trauma, and severe orthopaedic injuries.
It is named for its founder, R Adams Cowley, M.D., a pioneer
in trauma care. His "golden hour" concept saves lives by immediately
transporting severely ill and injured patients to Shock Trauma for the most
advanced care. Medical providers from throughout Maryland, the nation, and
the world come here each year for training. In 2001, the U.S. Air Force partnered
with the Medical Center and School of Medicine to use Shock Trauma as its
readiness training site for its worldwide medical personnel.
The Marlene and Stewart
Greenebaum Cancer Center is a place where hope is a way of
life. Internationally recognized experts in cancer care and research treat
15,000 patients each year. Bringing promising new therapies from the laboratory
to the bedside is a top priority, and the Cancer Center's scientists are
immersed in research on new drugs and therapies. Discoveries can be rapidly
translated into treatments at the Cancer Center before they are widely
available.
The Cancer Center offers comprehensive, coordinated care from teams of specialists
who consult on each patient's case and develop a treatment plan. In that way,
each patient benefits from the collaboration of medical oncologists, radiation
oncologists, surgical oncologists, pathologists, nurses and other team members.
The University of Maryland
Hospital for Children is a statewide resource providing the
finest care for serious and complex health problems in patients ranging
from newborns to young adults. Its primary care and highly specialized
programs attract patients from the entire mid-Atlantic region. The hospital
admits more than 7,500 children and handles more than 85,000 emergency
and outpatient visits annually.
The Hospital for Children emphasizes a child and family-centered approach.
Whenever possible, doctors treat children as outpatients to help them and their
loved ones cope better with illness while maintaining normal routines. Infants
born prematurely are cared for in the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
-- the largest in the state.
The Joseph and Corinne Schwartz
Division of Transplantation is among the nation's largest
kidney and pancreas transplant centers, and the Medical Center has tremendous
expertise in all aspects of kidney, pancreas and liver disease and the
latest treatments available. The transplant program has been a national
leader in finding innovative ways to enable once-ineligible patients to
be considered for transplantation.
In order to help people who donate a kidney to a loved one, the transplant
team works with Medical Center general surgeons who have pioneered and refined
video-assisted laparoscopic surgery. These surgeons can remove kidneys from
live donors without making a large incision. The procedure requires a much
shorter hospital stay and a faster recovery for the donor.
The transplant program has marked many milestones, such as Maryland's first
successful simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant, and the state's first
pancreas-alone transplant (the only known cure for diabetes). Medical Center
surgeons also performed Maryland's first single lung transplant.
Multidisciplinary Care
Medical Center health care providers believe strongly that the best medicine
is delivered by a coordinated team. Patients are seen by not one, but all the
specialists relevant to their care. The lead physician then presents a unified
plan for diagnosis and treatment to the patient and family.
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