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Johns Hopkins Hospital

Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Medicine
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A map of Baltimore with a dot showing location of Johns Hopkins Hospital
A map of Baltimore with a dot showing location of Johns Hopkins Hospital
Location of hospital on map of Baltimore
A map of Baltimore with a dot showing location of Johns Hopkins Hospital
A map of Baltimore with a dot showing location of Johns Hopkins Hospital
Location of hospital on map of Baltimore
A map of Baltimore with a dot showing location of Johns Hopkins Hospital
A map of Baltimore with a dot showing location of Johns Hopkins Hospital
Location of hospital on map of Baltimore
Geography
Location 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Coordinates 39°17′51″N 76°35′33″W / 39.29738°N 76.59239°W / 39.29738; -76.59239Coordinates: 39°17′51″N 76°35′33″W / 39.29738°N 76.59239°W / 39.29738; -76.59239
Organization
Funding Non-profit hospital
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Services
Emergency department Level I adult & pediatric trauma
Helipad FAA LID: 0MD3 and 17MD
Beds 1,059
History
Founded 1889
Links
Website hopkinshospital.org
hopkinsmedicine.org
Lists Hospitals in Maryland
Other links Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Johns Hopkins Hospital Complex
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Photograph as of September 2012
Location 601 North Broadway,Baltimore, Maryland
Area 8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built 1889
Architect Cabot & Chandler; Et al.
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP Reference # 75002094
Added to NRHP February 24, 1975

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore City, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins Hospital and the school of medicine are the founding institutions of modern American medicine and the birthplace of numerous medical traditions including rounds, residents and housestaff. Many medical specialties were formed at the hospital including neurosurgery, by Harvey Cushing; cardiac surgery by Alfred Blalock; and pediatrics and child psychiatry, by Leo Kanner.

Johns Hopkins Hospital is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest hospitals. It was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best overall hospital in America for 21 consecutive years (1991–2011). In 2016-2017, the hospital ranked in 15 adult and 10 children's specialties, coming in 1st in Maryland and 4th nationally behind the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore merchant and banker, left an estate of $7 million (US$134.07 million in 2016) when he died on Christmas Eve 1873 at the age of 78. In his will, he asked that his fortune be used to found two institutions that would bear his name: "Johns Hopkins University" and "The Johns Hopkins Hospital." At the time that it was made, Hopkins's gift was the largest philanthropic bequest in the history of the United States.

Toward the end of his life, Hopkins selected 12 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."


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