Providing the best healthcare experience
We have a culture that promotes quality, service, and safety to our patients, providing them with the best healthcare experience possible.
Since 1854, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has provided high-quality care to our community. Located in northeast Baltimore City, MedStar Union Memorial is a regional specialty and teaching hospital.
We are known for The Curtis National Hand Center, MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, MedStar Orthopaedic Institute, and the development of the first hospital-based sports medicine program in the country.
Our mission, vision, and values
Mission
We offer a comprehensive hospital with regional specialty services of distinction and quality community services, all enhanced by clinical education and research.
Vision
Our vision is to be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health in the communities we serve.
Values
- Service: We strive to anticipate and meet the needs of our patients, physicians, and co-workers.
- Patient First: We strive to deliver the best to every patient every day. The patient is the first priority in everything we do.
- Integrity: We communicate openly and honestly, build trust, and conduct ourselves according to the highest ethical standards.
- Respect: We treat each individual, those we serve and those with whom we work, with the highest professionalism and dignity.
- Innovation: We embrace change and work to improve all we do in a fiscally responsible manner.
- Teamwork: We build on the collective strength and cultural diversity of everyone, working with open communication and mutual respect.
A letter from our president
As one of the region's top specialty hospitals, MedStar Union Memorial has been caring for members of the community for more than 160 years.
Through the years, we have grown to become the nation's premier hand and upper extremities location with the Curtis National Hand Center, and our heart program, a leading cardiac regional treatment center, has aligned with the nationally acclaimed Cleveland Clinic to share best practices to provide the best possible care for heart patients.
Our orthopedics and oldest hospital-based sports medicine program continue to be regionally and nationally renowned. In addition, we offer a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services including diabetes and endocrine care, general surgery, and vascular surgery.
Our excellence in cardiovascular and orthopaedic care has earned national recognition from Thomson Reuters (Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success) and U.S. News & Report (America's Best Hospitals). MedStar Union Memorial is a member of MedStar Health a non-profit, regional healthcare system with a community-based network of 10 hospitals, and other healthcare services in the Maryland-Washington, D.C., region.
MedStar Union Memorial is accredited by The Joint Commission and designated as a Primary Stroke Center and the Hand Trauma Center for the state of Maryland. We also are the only hospital in Maryland with an accredited Palliative Care Program.
[Signature]
Bradley S. Chambers
President
Our history
Our hospital is rooted in a long history of medical and nursing excellence, and our commitment to serving the community has been evident from the beginning.
The seven women who established the Union Protestant Infirmary (UPI), as it was first called in 1854, wanted a place where "the sick, the poor, and the infirm" could receive quality care. In 1867, UPI became the first non-university hospital to develop a residency training program and by 1890 the School of Nursing (now closed) was established.
UPI was renamed Union Memorial Hospital in 1920 and 3 years later, the hospital expanded into a new home at Calvert and 33rd Streets in Baltimore. Expansions to the campus continued through 1975 and beyond, and in 2004, MedStar Union Memorial celebrated its 150th anniversary. In 2012, the hospital was renamed MedStar Union Memorial Hospital.
We have evolved from a 20-bed to a 223-bed hospital with more than 2,500 employees and a medical staff of more than 620 physicians. As long as there are new challenges in medicine, MedStar Union Memorial will find new ways to meet those challenges with compassion and quality care.
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MedStar Union Memorial History
2012
Union Memorial changes its name to MedStar Union Memorial2008
Arnold Palmer SportsHealth Center, rooftop helipad open2006
Decker Orthopaedic Institute, Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Heart Institute open2004
Union Memorial Hospital 150th Anniversary2000
Diabetes and Endocrine Center, Vascular Institute open1994
U.S. Congress designates Curtis National Hand Center as the National Center for the Treatment of the Hand and Upper Extremity; Open Heart Surgery program opens1991
Union Memorial School of Nursing closes1979
Sports Medicine Center opens1975
Union Memorial expands into North Building on University Parkway; Raymond Curtis National Hand Center opens1924 - 1929
Johnston Hospital & Nurses Home and Bauernschmidt Building expansions1923
Union Memorial moves into new home at Calvert and 33rd Streets1920
Union Protestant Infirmary (UPI) renamed Union Memorial Hospital1890
UPI School of Nursing opens1867
First non-university hospital in Maryland to develop residency training program1854
UPI founded as first community hospital in Baltimore
Facts and figures
For fiscal year 2019
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229
Licensed Beds
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572
Physicians (Employed/Affiliated)
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695
Nurses
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2,111
Total Associates
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51,743
Annual Emergency Department Visits
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10,726
Annual Admissions
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3,271
Annual Observations
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7,159
Annual Ambulatory Surgeries
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More than
$37.7 million
was provided in community benefits