GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER
Acute Care Hospital in Baltimore, MD 21204
GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER PROFILE
Greater Baltimore Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Baltimore, MD 21204 that serves the Baltimore county area. This facility is a private non-profit hospital with emergency services.
GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER
6701 North Charles StreetBaltimore, MD 21204
Phone: (443) 849-2000
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Patient Survey Summary Rating Summary Star Rating
The summary star rating combines data from different aspects of the patient’s experience of care to make hospital comparison easier.
Average
ABOUT THIS PROVIDER
Hospital Type: Acute Care Hospitals What's an acute care hospital?An acute care hospital provides inpatient medical care, services related for surgery and medical services for short-term illnesses, acute medical conditions or injuries.
Hospital Owner: Voluntary Non-profit - Private
Multispecialty Surgical Registry: Yes Multispecialty surgical registry
The provider participates in the multispecialty surgical registry. Participants of this registry report one or any combination of three surgical measures elderly surgical outcomes, colectomy outcomes and lower-extremity bypass outcomes.
Electronic Lab Results: Yes Able to receive lab results electronically
The provider has the ability of receiving laboratory results through a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) system as discrete searchable data.
Outpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (outpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for outpatient surgical procedures.
General Surgery Registry: Yes General Surgery Registry
The provider participates in the general surgery registry. Registries provide hospitals with information necessary to help them improve the care they provide.
Nursing Care Registry: Yes Nursing care registry
The provider participates in the nursing care registry. This registry collects and analyzes information on nursing care topics, conditions, or procedures.
Inpatient Safe Surgery Checklist: Yes Safe surgery checklist use (inpatient)
This hospital follows a safe surgery checklist based on accepted standards of practice. Safe surgery checklists include three critical perioperative periods: 1) The period before the administration of anesthesia; 2) The period before surgical skin incision; and 3) The period of closure of incision and before the patient leaving the operating room for inpatient surgical procedures.
Emergency Services: Yes Emergency Department
This hospital provides emergency services which might include acute medical care or trauma care.
PATIENT EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
The hospital patient survey at Greater Baltimore Medical Center is administered to a random sample of adult inpatients after discharge. The following are the results of some the survey’s five-star quality ratings.
Doctor Communication: AverageQuiet Rooms: Average
Cleanliness: Average
Pain Management: Good
Discharge Information: Fair
Patients Recommend this Hospital: Good
EMERGENCY ROOM WAIT TIMES
These performance measures at Greater Baltimore Medical Center show how rapidly emergency departments give recommended treatments known to get the best results for patients with certain common conditions. This information could help patients compare which hospitals provide the right care at the right time.
ER Wait Time: 49 minutes before being seen by a doctor.Discharge Time: 3 hours 22 minutes before being sent home.
Time Before Admission: 5 hours 19 minutes before being admitted to hospital.
Transfer Time: 1 hour 52 minutes admitted before being taken to room.
Broken Bones: 45 minutes before receiving pain meds.
HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
We have identified the following individual quality measures where Greater Baltimore Medical Center has better average ratings than other hospitals in Maryland or where the hospital is performing better compared to national averages or benchmarks.
- Better performance for catheter urinary tract infections Better performance for catheter urinary tract infections
The provider has a better than the national benchmark performance for catheter urinary tract infections - Better performance with the effective use of simultaneous use of brain CT and sinus CT Better performance with the effective use of simultaneous use of brain CT and sinus CT
The provider's use of simultaneous use of brain CT and sinus CT is better and more effective compared to the average hospital rate in the state of MD. - Better mortality rates with average payment for pneumonia care Better mortality rates with average payment for pneumonia care
The provider has better mortality rates and is more efficient with average payments for pneumonia care patients. - Better performance for pneumonia 30-day mortality rate Better performance for pneumonia 30-day mortality rate
Compared to the national average rate the provider has a better performance for pneumonia 30-day mortality rate. - Better performance for hospital-wide unplanned 30-day readmission rate Better performance for hospital-wide unplanned 30-day readmission rate
Compared to the national average rate the provider has a better performance for hospital-wide unplanned 30-day readmission rate. - Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission Emergency Department: better performance with time before admission
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 319 minutes for time before admission is better than the statewide average of 360 minutes in Maryland. - Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time Emergency Department: better performance with transfer time
The provider's Emergency Department performance of 112 minutes for transfer time is better than the statewide average of 136 minutes in Maryland. - Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization Preventive Care: better performance with patients flu immunization
The provider's Preventive Care performance score of 98% for the quality measure patients flu immunization is better than the 97% average score of Maryland. - Emergency Department:
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The provider's Emergency Department performance score of 2% for the quality measure left without being seen is better than the 3% average score of Maryland. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with aspirin at arrival
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance score of 98% for the quality measure aspirin at arrival is better than the 97% average score of Maryland. - Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with time to ecg Heart Attack or Chest Pain: better performance with time to ecg
The provider's Heart Attack or Chest Pain performance of 7 minutes for time to ecg is better than the statewide average of 9 minutes in Maryland. - Pregnancy and Delivery Care: delivery scheduled too early Pregnancy and Delivery Care: delivery scheduled too early
The provider's Pregnancy and Delivery Care performance score of 1% for the quality measure delivery scheduled too early is better than the 6% average score of Maryland. - Pneumonia: better performance with pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s) Pneumonia: better performance with pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s)
The provider's Pneumonia performance score of 99% for the quality measure pneumonia patients given antibiotic(s) is better than the 97% average score of Maryland. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with beta-blocker prior to admission Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with beta-blocker prior to admission
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 99% for the quality measure beta-blocker prior to admission is better than the 98% average score of Maryland. - Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic selection Surgical Care Improvement Project: better performance with antibiotic selection
The provider's Surgical Care Improvement Project performance score of 99% for the quality measure antibiotic selection is better than the 98% average score of Maryland. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
overlap therapy Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with anticoagulation
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The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 99% for the quality measure anticoagulation overlap therapy is better than the 97% average score of Maryland. - Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with incidence of preventable blood clots Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment: better performance with incidence of preventable blood clots
The provider's Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment performance score of 4% for the quality measure incidence of preventable blood clots is better than the 3% average score of Maryland.
NEARBY HOSPITALS
The following providers were found within a 30 mile range from this location.
| Hospital Name | Address | Emergency Services | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER | 7601 Osler Drive Towson, MD 21204 | Yes | 0.84 mi | Compare |
| MEDSTAR GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL | 5601 Loch Raven Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21239 | Yes | 3.11 mi | Compare |
| LEVINDALE HEBREW GERIATRIC CENTER AND HOSPITAL | 2434 West Belvedere Avenue Baltimore, MD 21215 | No | 3.38 mi | Compare |
| MEDSTAR UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | 201 East University Parkway Baltimore, MD 21218 | Yes | 4.39 mi | Compare |
| SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE | 2401 West Belvedere Avenue Baltimore, MD 21215 | Yes | 6.19 mi | Compare |
| UNIVERSITY OF MD MEDICAL CENTER MIDTOWN CAMPUS | 827 Linden Avenue Baltimore, MD 21201 | Yes | 6.4 mi | Compare |
| JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, THE | 600 North Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21287 | Yes | 6.8 mi | Compare |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER INC | 301 Saint Paul Place Baltimore, MD 21202 | Yes | 6.89 mi | Compare |
| UNIV OF MD REHABILITATION & ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE | 2200 Kernan Drive Baltimore, MD 21207 | No | 6.98 mi | Compare |
| VA MARYLAND HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - BALTIMORE | 10 North Greene Street Baltimore, MD 21201 | No | 7.08 mi | Compare |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER | 22 South Greene Street Baltimore, MD 21201 | Yes | 7.18 mi | Compare |
| BON SECOURS HOSPITAL | 2000 W Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21223 | Yes | 7.29 mi | Compare |
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