Provider Profile - Johns Hopkins Hospital
Today, we take for granted rigorous training of physicians and nurses, an emphasis on finding new cures, and a commitment to making those cures available to all people. Yet these innovations originated at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. They were the vision of Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins, who left the resources to unite a threefold mission: Provide the finest patient care. Seek knowledge to improve that care. And educate the next generation to carry out these tasks in a superior fashion.
Mr. Hopkins wanted a hospital with the finest physicians and staff; a hospital that would care for the poor of Baltimore without regard to race, color or creed; a hospital that would be a partner with the university medical school and faculty, with a training school for nurses. He envisioned a place of compassion and caring, high skill, research and education.
Since the hospital opened its doors in 1889, Johns Hopkins has been recognized as a leader in patient care, medical research and teaching. It is a world-renowned academic medical center that is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s best hospitals.
One of surgical specialties provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine is bariatric surgery. The Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery, located on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s campus, has been accredited as a Level 1B facility by the Bariatric Surgery Center Network (BSCN) Accreditation Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This designation means that the Center for Bariatric Surgery has met the essential criteria that ensures it is fully capable of supporting a bariatric surgery care program and that its institutional performance meets the requirements outlined by the ACS BSCN Accreditation Program.
Experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery specialize in weight loss surgery for the morbidly obese patient, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for our patients. The team prides itself on its superior long-term successes. Our surgeons have performed over 2,200 bariatric procedures and have one of the lowest complication rates in the United States. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center has four dedicated state of the art bariatric rooms with a team of dedicated nursing staff to care for its patients.
For more information, please visit our website at: www.hopkinsbayview.org/bariatrics