Analysis of the John Hopkins Hospital
Executive Summary.
John Hopkins Hospital was founded by John Hopkins a philanthropist and a Quaker by faith in 1867 and endowed in 1873. He dedicated his life and finances approximately $7,000,000 in cash to building a teaching hospital and a university named after him with designations of uniting functions of patient care with education and research. The John Hopkins hospital was officially opened on May 7, 1889. Before Mr. Hopkins died in 1973, he had committed himself to the principle of “united we stand and divided we fall” and selected board of trustees for the hospital and the university whom he entrusted with tasks and responsibilities to carry out his vision. On March 10, 1873, he put in black and white that the hospital must provide for “the indigent sick of the city of Baltimore without regard to sex, age, or color who may need surgical or medical treatment”. In his letter he also specified that the school of nursing and medicine must be established in conjunction with the hospital. Looking at it today, the John Hopkins hospital has evolved into one of the largest teaching hospital in the country. It includes more than 12 smaller hospitals and medical centers affiliated to the main hospital in Baltimore 226 clinical services 977 licensed beds and 37 building in the State of Maryland. The John Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine are the founding institutions of modern American Medicine and the birthplace of so many traditions of medicine including ward rounds, residency programs, and house staff. Many medical specialties including neuroscience by Harvey, cardiac surgery by Blalock, urology, endocrinology pediatrics, and child psychiatry by Kanner were founded at this hospital....
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...spital they are able to provide outstanding patient care at a low or cheaper cost. The students on rotations are also able to cover for shortage of staff thus keeping the patient care uncompromised due to low staffing.
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is a teaching hospital and a Federally Qualified Health Center. There is evidence of C.C.H. being a teaching hospital right from the beginning of the book. The book starts with Dr. Ansell just finishing his time in medical school at Syracuse and him and his friends look to get placed in a hospital for residency. They decided to choose C.C.H. from the beginning for they felt it was the right choice and that this hospital needed change. Throughout Dr. Ansell’s residency many tough challenges faced him for he realized that he had to learn many things by himself. When facing all the hard challenges none was as inspiring to Dr. Ansell as the one he faced when he was seeing one of his first ever patients who refused care from him because he was a “little white boy” who didn’t look the part of the doctor. Dr. Ansell stated that “If I did one thing during my time here, it would be to learn to be the best possible doctor for my patients”. The teaching hospital that C.C.H. was is something that inspired many doctors and it really opened eyes for many doctors to really love their profession and teach them to become the best possible doctor, for it was not an easy hospital to learn
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Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching and biomedical research health care facility located in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1889, JHH is named after the renowned philanthropist and visionary enthusiast Johns Hopkins, who provided the initial funds for construction. JHH was the first hospital to incorporated teaching, learning, patient care, and research into the health care model. Today, JHH is billion-dollar health care system and is known (nationally and internationally) for distinction in health care excellence, teaching, and research.
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