The Johns Hopkins University, an international center for both undergraduate and graduate study and research, is a privately endowed, coeducational institution based in Baltimore, Maryland, with facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington area and abroad. The university has nine academic divisions: the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, the Carey Business School and the School of Education, based on the Homewood campus in north Baltimore; the School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing in east Baltimore; the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, located in Washington, D.C., with branches in Bologna, Italy, and in Nanjing, China; and The Peabody Institute, a music conservatory (which also has a large preparatory department) based in downtown Baltimore, with campuses in Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard counties.
Johns Hopkins has developed major continuing education centers in downtown Baltimore, in Howard and Montgomery counties, and in Washington, D.C. The university also operates a research facility; the Applied Physics Laboratory, in Howard county.
Separately incorporated but closely affiliated is The Johns Hopkins Health System, formed in 1986 to coordinate a vertically integrated delivery system covering the full spectrum of patient care. Wholly owned subsidiaries include Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation (trading as Johns Hopkins Community Physicians), and three hospitals: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and Howard County General Hospital, which have 1,952 licensed acute care beds, neonatal intensive care bassinets and comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation beds. During FY 2006, 81,523 patients were discharged, and there were 1.5 million outpatient and emergency visits.
The health system and the university's School of Medicine have been brought closer together with the creation of Johns Hopkins Medicine, an alliance that coordinates and serves complementary interests to ensure continued preeminence in education, discovery, and patient care. Johns Hopkins Medicine is governed by a board consisting of university and health system trustees. The health system's president reports to the chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, who is also dean of the medical school. More than a governance structure, however, this alliance ensures that these distinct but interdependent corporations respond to the health-care marketplace in an integrated way.
Together the health system and medical school formed the Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Employer Health Programs (EHP), Priority Partners (for Maryland's medical assistance patients), and Johns Hopkins HealthCare (to manage contractual relationships with managed care organizations, employers, and health care providers). The two Hopkins medical institutions also developed the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center in East Baltimore and Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, Johns Hopkins Medicine's first major suburban location and the largest freestanding ambulatory care center in Baltimore County. Building on this success, Johns Hopkins Medicine opened similar outpatient facilities in eastern Baltimore County (White Marsh) and in Howard County (Cedar Lane). The launch of Johns Hopkins Singapore and other international initiatives have greatly expanded Johns Hopkins Medicine's geographic range. Most recently, Johns Hopkins Medicine has launched a $2 billion campus redevelopment and is working with the City of Baltimore on plans for a biotechnology park.
Johns Hopkins Medicine's FY 2005 consolidated net revenue was $3.3 billion, and its components employed a total of 27,700 people, including some 4,700 full-time physicians, differentiating it from all other delivery systems in the Maryland/District of Columbia area.
