Year in Review 2016

Highlights from stories concerning the strategic priorities of Johns Hopkins Medicine

01/04/2017

Published in Dome - January/February 2017

A graphic shows biofilm.

BIOMEDICAL DISCOVERY: By studying biofilm, the sticky coating of bacteria that clings to intestinal walls, researchers Cynthia Sears and Francis Giardiello may have discovered the earliest marker in the progression of colon cancer.

A photo shows Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions.

PERFORMANCE: Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions, a business division within Johns Hopkins HealthCare, manages a Johns Hopkins-run workplace clinic at Coastal Sunbelt Produce in Laurel. In FY16, the Solutions group distributed $6 million to faculty members and departments across the schools of medicine, public health and nursing from revenue it generated by providing Johns Hopkins consulting services and programs to industry clients.

A photo shows the unveiling of the new name of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital.

INTEGRATION: Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital celebrates its 90th anniversary and new name with a logo unveiling. The event also marks the fifth anniversary of the hospital joining Johns Hopkins Medicine.

A photo represents the education priority.

EDUCATION: The primary care clerkship at Johns Hopkins brings first-year medical students face to face with patients and community doctors. The yearlong program allows trainees to learn how to build relationships with patients.

A photo represents the Patient and Family Centered Care strategic priority.

PATIENT- AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE: The Center for Addiction and Pregnancy at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is one of the first to co-locate and often integrate prenatal care, substance abuse treatment, psychiatric care and a pediatric clinic that treats children until they are 21.

Read Putting the Pieces Together: Center for Addiction and Pregnancy treats the children of mothers who took drugs while pregnant.

A photo represents the Community Outreach strategic priority.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: The Supply Chain Institute, a job training partnership between Johns Hopkins and Baltimore City Community College, is an eight-week course for high school graduates who want to learn about large-scale shipping, receiving and distribution operations.

Read Homegrown Talent: New institute trains supply chain workers for careers, not jobs.

PEOPLE: Redonda G. Miller becomes the first female president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has more than 20 years of institutional service, most recently as senior vice president for medical affairs for the Johns Hopkins Health System. Miller is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Read a Q-and-A with Redonda G. Miller.

Recognition for Quality of Care

Howard County General Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center receive the Virginia Health Quality Center Quality Innovation Award for improving patient care and reducing hospital-acquired infections in 2015. Granted to the top 10 percent of hospitals in Maryland and Virginia, the award is based on patient safety and service scores.

Johns Hopkins Specialty Infusion and all Johns Hopkins outpatient pharmacies receive URAC accreditation, a nationally recognized certification that stands for the highest level of quality in specialty pharmacy to consumers.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center receives full designation as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems.

Howard County General, Suburban and Sibley Memorial hospitals receive awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Sullivan Breast Center is designated a breast imaging center of excellence by the American College of Radiology.

Howard County General Hospital receives the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s Blue Distinction Center+ for Maternity Care designation, a new category under the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. Howard County General is also designated a Blue Distinction Center+ for Knee and Hip Replacement.

Highlights from Around the Health System

Sibley Memorial Hospital opens a 475,000-square-foot patient tower with 200 single-occupant rooms, a state-of-the-art operating room, two floors of women’s and infants’ services, and an orthopaedic unit with a rehabilitation clinic. The tower also holds the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley, with 34 private infusion rooms, an inpatient oncology unit and the region’s only dedicated pediatric radiation oncology program.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital once again ranks #1 in Maryland and is #4 nationally out of nearly 5,000 hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals list for 2016. Of the 16 specialties ranked by U.S. News, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has 15 that are nationally ranked, with 10 specialties among the top five and 14 specialties in the top 10.
Vice President Joe Biden attends the launch of the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. One of the most promising avenues of cancer research, immunotherapy has the potential to cure all cancers by redirecting each patient’s highly individual immune systems to target, detect and destroy cancer cells.
Johns Hopkins Medicine creates the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence, led by neurologist David Newman-Toker, an internationally recognized leader in diagnostic research and diagnostic safety.
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory launch Johns Hopkins inHealth. This precision medicine effort uses data analytics and systems engineering to tailor diagnoses and treatments to individual patients.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital becomes the first hospital in the United States to perform HIV-positive to HIV-positive kidney and liver transplants.
Enrollment in Johns Hopkins HealthCare’s Priority Partners exceeds 275,000, making it the largest Medicaid managed care organization in Maryland.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare create a Doctorate of Nursing Practice program that is the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia. An inaugural cohort of 13 students will graduate in May, ready to take on advanced roles as clinical and health care policy leaders through the program, which accepts nurses with bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Johns Hopkins Medicine researcher Gregg Semenza is among three scientists to win the 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Semenza is known for his groundbreaking discovery of a protein that switches genes on and off in response to low oxygen levels.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Suburban Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital are named designated leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality by the foundation of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group and Potomac Home Health Care achieve HomeCare Elite status for the fourth consecutive year. This honor is reserved for Medicare-certified agencies that rank in the top 25th percentile nationally for quality and performance metrics.
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians moves the internal medicine, pediatrics, and gynecology and obstetrics practices from its Wyman Park location to a more patient-centered and spacious facility at 2700 Remington Ave. in Baltimore.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center win environmental excellence awards from Practice Greenhealth, a national association for health care organizations dedicated to environmental sustainability principles and practices.

More Highlights from Around the Health System

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital:

Johns Hopkins All Children’s is named a U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospital in six specialties.

Margaret McGuire becomes the first graduate of the pediatric surgery fellowship. The hospital welcomes its third incoming resident class and achieves a full complement of residents.
Johns Hopkins All Children’s receives a $2.8 million National Institutes of Health grant for a phase 3 clinical trial on treatment of blood clots in children.
Hospitals & Health Networks names Johns Hopkins All Children’s to its 2016 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems list for excellence in IT integration and health data security.
Johns Hopkins All Children’s and Florida Hospital create an exclusive affiliation to deliver high-quality pediatric care closer to home for patients in Hillsborough and Pasco counties.

Howard County General Hospital

Mohammed Ahmed becomes vice president of medical affairs/chief medical officer. Jon Oravec is named vice president of human resources. Elizabeth Edsall Kromm is named vice president of population health and advancement. David Nitkin is appointed senior director of administration and chief of staff.
Howard County General is designated as a Baby-Friendly birth facility, an initiative that encourages and recognizes hospitals and birth centers that offer breast-feeding mothers the information, confidence and skills to successfully initiate and continue breast-feeding their babies.
The hospital launches a population health strategy to improve the health and wellness of Howard County residents.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Johns Hopkins Bayview’s new mobile Care-A-Van provides health care to underserved children and families in East Baltimore.
Charles Reuland becomes executive vice president and chief operating officer for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview.

Johns Hopkins HealthCare

Johns Hopkins Employer Health Program enrollment exceeds 60,000 with the addition of several new employer groups, including Anne Arundel Medical Center.
The Johns Hopkins US Family Health Plan earns a National Committee for Quality Assurance quality rating of five, the highest possible rating for managed care plans.
Johns Hopkins Advantage MD grows its membership to over 5,000 members statewide. It is the fastest-growing Medicare Advantage Plan in the region.
Advantage MD also creates a new equity partnership with six major health systems in the region. Adventist HealthCare, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Frederick Regional Health System, LifeBridge Health, Peninsula Regional Medical Center and Mercy Medical Center all have minority ownership positions in Advantage MD.
Johns Hopkins HealthCare develops a Healthy at Hopkins web portal and program to benefit all Johns Hopkins Medicine employees.

Johns Hopkins Home Care Group

Mary Myers becomes president and CEO of Home Care. She mostly recently served as its vice president and chief operating officer.

Johns Hopkins Medicine International

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare add five new areas of collaboration for clinical program development in Saudi Arabia: hematology/sickle cell, physical medicine and rehab, oncology, obesity management and robotic surgery. Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare performs its first robotic surgery.
Johns Hopkins Medicine International’s Language Access Services team wins the International Medical Interpreters Association’s Provider of the Year award.
Second annual A Woman’s Journey in Bermuda achieves a 45 percent increase in attendance.
Johns Hopkins Medicine International’s clinic at Green Spring Station adds three new providers and more than triples the number of patient sessions available each week.
Johns Hopkins Singapore, Johns Hopkins Medicine International’s 30-bed oncology joint venture, links up with local technical experts at Temasek Polytechnic to explore videoconferencing as an option to save time in verifying chemotherapy cocktails.

Sibley Memorial Hospital

Matthew Ladra becomes head of Johns Hopkins and Children’s National Pediatric Cancer Care, the area’s first dedicated pediatric radiation oncology program, located at Sibley Memorial Hospital. The first of its kind in Washington, D.C., the program is part of a larger collaborative cancer care initiative between Johns Hopkins Medicine and Children’s National Health System.
Sibley Memorial Hospital is selected for the second time as best D.C. hospital by Washington City Paper readers.

Suburban Hospital

Suburban Hospital achieves significant improvement in employee engagement, rising to the 79th percentile—the highest among all Johns Hopkins Health System hospitals.
Readers of Bethesda magazine vote Suburban as having the best emergency department in the area.
U. S. News & World Report names Suburban among the nation’s high-performing hospitals in orthopaedics. Suburban also ranks as a high performer in heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and knee and hip replacement.
The NIH Stroke Center at Suburban Hospital earns recertification as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission. Suburban’s Joint Replacement Program receives recertification from the Joint Commission as well.

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