2017 Highlights from Around the Health System
The Johns Hopkins Hospital once again ranks #1 in Maryland and is #3 nationally out of nearly 5,000 hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals list for 2017. This—coupled with the recent pediatric ranking in which U.S. News named Johns Hopkins Children’s Center #5 nationally—makes Johns Hopkins the nation’s top-ranked hospital combined for both adult and pediatric care. Of the 16 specialties ranked by U.S. News, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has 13 specialties among the top 10 with 10 in the top five.
Suburban Hospital breaks ground for a 300,000 square-foot clinical building featuring technological advances in surgery, conveniently located specialty physician offices and all private patient rooms. The hospital’s new seven-level parking garage opens in August.
Sibley Memorial Hospital opens the Advanced Clinical Care Unit to provide care for complex medical and surgical patients who require specialized nursing assessments and care.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital opens the John G. Bartlett Specialty Practice for patients with infectious diseases. The facility includes more than two dozen exam rooms and co-locates much-needed services for patients with a range of infectious diseases, including infections following transplantation or from medical devices, HIV and viral hepatitis.
Johns Hopkins US Family Health Plan expands into Northern Virginia. Through a network agreement with the Inova Health System and Signature Partners, Johns Hopkins US Family Health Plan (USFHP) offers coverage to more than 100,000 potential new members in the Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia region. Johns Hopkins HealthCare provides health care services for USFHP.
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital’s LifeLine, the critical care transport team, marks its 40th anniversary. The team transports approximately 1,300 neonatal and pediatric patients each year aboard the LifeLine helicopter, fixed-wing transport or one of four specially equipped ambulances.
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group achieves HomeCare Elite status for the fifth straight year and for the first time with Top 500 status (designated to 500 out of over 15,000 Medicare-certified agencies).
The Center for Bariatric Surgery at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center marks the 20th anniversary of the first bariatric surgery performed there and its 5,000th bariatric case. Also, the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality expands to Johns Hopkins Bayview.
For the first time, Johns Hopkins International presents A Woman’s Journey—an award-winning health education conference—to women at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare and Saudi Aramco. More than 450 participants attend sessions held in Dharan on managing stress, aging well and maintaining good digestive health.
Additional Milestones and Accomplishments from Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) employees in the Greater Tampa Bay area mobilized to offer much-needed resources to colleagues at the Fort Myers Outpatient Care location after Hurricane Irma caused flooding and power outages. Donated nonperishable food, water, toiletries and items for children filled two trucks.
JHACH began recruitment for newly accredited fellowship programs in neonatal-perinatal medicine and in pediatric palliative care medicine. The hospital also welcomed its first international fellow (in pediatric neurosurgery).
Jen Arnold, a nationally known pediatric expert in educational medical simulation, joined JCACH as medical director of the hospital’s expanding Simulation Center. She also will serve as a part-time assistant professor with The Johns Hopkins University.
An online post about a baby being treated at JHACH for acute myeloid leukemia quickly brought in 4,300 new bone marrow registrants through an online drive for Be the Match, the largest and most diverse donor registry in the world. In-person drives raised that to a total of 9,000 new registrants, far exceeding Be the Match’s annual goal of 3,300 for the entire state of Florida.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
The Community Psychiatry Program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center moved from the Mason F. Lord Building to a new facility at 5500 Lombard St. The Community Psychiatry Program encompasses 25 programs (10 moved to the new space), has more than 200 employees (including those at mobile treatment and off-site clinics) and has 3,200 patient visits per year.
The health system gained its first nursing clinical community: a team of 34 nurses led by Maria Koszalka, vice president of patient care services at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and Joanne Miller, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
John Hopkins Children’s Center
Margaret Moon was named the first ever chief medical officer at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center (JHCC).
JHHC opened its first pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.
The center created an official program of hospitalists and appointed Eric Biondi as its director.
JHCC opened the only outpatient pediatric hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis center in the state.
The center’s oncology division was approved as one of 30 centers across the U.S. to offer CAR-T cell therapy.
The transplant team performed its youngest pediatric liver transplant (4 months). The donor was the infant’s father who gave a small portion of his own liver. Both baby and parent are doing well.
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) added a patient experience officer at each practice site. This new position provides leadership and oversight of all patient-experience efforts and includes participating, on the practice level, on patient and family advisory councils.
JHCP implemented a telecommunications infrastructure with e-visits, video visits and phone management.
The three-year Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare Primary Care project was completed with the successful dissemination of primary care best practices. JHCP’s goal was to create a pathway to establishing a patient-centered medical home. Accomplishments include developing the first nurse practitioner program in Saudi Arabia, as well as a diabetes program in which the primary care team identified and devised a comprehensive nonmedical and medical approach for the highest-risk diabetes patients. The JHCP team also created a Quality Sub Council that chose balanced key performance indicators to demonstrate an improvement in quality over a 24-month period.
Johns Hopkins HealthCare
Johns Hopkins HealthCare implemented HEALTHsuite, a new claims system for the Johns Hopkins Uniformed Services Family Health Plan.
Johns Hopkins Advantage MD added more than 3,600 plan members, making it the leader in Medicare Advantage growth in its 11-county market.
Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions generated $10 million in total revenue and brought in $900,000 in net income during FY17, including $6 million for support of the Johns Hopkins University schools of medicine and nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Contributing to this was the ACG® System, which became the first health care data analytics system to incorporate SNOMED CT, an international clinical coding classification system.
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group entered a collaborative affiliation with the Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., to provide the system’s patients with its Pediatrics at Home home-based care.
The home care group opened an infusion suite at Howard County General Hospital in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians.
Mary Myers, president and CEO of Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, was appointed to the board for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.
Howard County General Hospital
The Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences opened a new psychiatry office in the Medical Pavilion next to Howard County General Hospital (HCGH). A range of general adult psychiatric conditions will be treated in the new clinic, including but not limited to women’s mood and eating disorders and depression.
HCGH has been redesignated as a Level III Perinatal Referral Center by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems for five more years.
M. Shafeeq Ahmed, HCGH’s chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs, was named one of the “100 hospital and health system CMOs to know” in 2017 by Becker’s Hospital Review.
HCGH’s environmental services department was honored by the Integrated Pest Management in Health Care Facilities Project for its “green pest management” approach that eliminates the use of toxic chemicals in managing pests. Integrated Pest Management protects vulnerable populations, such as hospital patients, who are at highest risk from the toxic effects of chemical pesticide use. The project is a partnership between the Maryland Pesticide Network and Beyond Pesticides, in collaboration with Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment.
The maternal child unit received recognition from the Maryland Department of Human Resources for continued success completing the Affidavit of Parentage process. In Maryland, if a mother is married at the time of her child’s conception or birth, the law presumes that her husband is the baby’s father. If the mother is unmarried when the child is born, paternity can be established through a court proceeding or if both parents sign an Affidavit of Parentage.
Johns Hopkins Medicine International
Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) launched Global Promise — Insights on International Collaborative Health, a blog written by JHI’s senior leaders, experts at JHI’s affiliates around the world and thought leaders in international collaborative health.
Patient-focused microsites were introduced in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese that contain health care content featuring some of JHM’s most prominent service lines.
Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH) relaunched its cardiac surgery program. Harry Parissis, JHAH’s lead cardiac surgeon, completed orientation in Baltimore and was joined at Dhahran Medical Center by Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeons to perform lifesaving procedures and begin establishing JHAH as a top-of-mind cardiac surgery center in the region.
JHI’s Language Access Services coordinated an update of medical interpretation policies and services for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. Updated policies — set to extend to all Johns Hopkins Health System entities — require staff members who encounter patients or family members with limited English proficiency (LEP) to use one of the approved medical interpretation methods (an in-person interpreter or remote audio or video interpretation) during all medical conversations.
JHI signed and/or renewed the following contracts: Al Rahba Hospital (United Arab Emirates) — one-year renewal; Anadolu Medical Center (Turkey) — 10-year renewal to enhance patient safety and quality; Clemenceau Medical Center (Lebanon) — 10-year renewal that will focus, in part, on physician and nursing education; Hospital Punta Pacifica (Panama) — 10-year renewal to enhance and add clinical programs; Medcan (Canada) — One-year contract extension that will look at research opportunities; Monterrey Tec (Mexico) – one-year contract extension to explore physician and academic medicine leadership programs; Tawam Hospital ( United Arab Emirates ) — three-year agreement focused on oncology.
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Sibley launched a new community grant initiative to support organizations working to improve the health status of residents in historically underserved communities in wards 7 and 8 of Washington, D.C.
The hospital received Martha’s Table Volunteer Recognition Award for its work as a first-year volunteer group with Joyful Food Markets, a program established to increase access to and encourage consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables east of the Anacostia River in Washington.
The hospital launched Your Health @ Sibley, a comprehensive employee health and wellness program, and opened the Your Health @ Sibley employee exercise room, the first dedicated fitness space for employees.
Renovation began on Building C, the original Sibley hospital building, to create space for expansion.
The Sibley Senior Association (SSA) celebrated its 30th anniversary. With more than 7,000 members, SSA works to improve the health of older adults throughout Washington by reducing isolation and providing care in social, physical, psychological and spiritual realms.
Becker’s Healthcare named Sibley one of the 60 “greenest hospitals” in America.
