Welcome to HospitalRounds
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Welcome to HospitalRounds.
Today I became the interim President and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC). My appointment was totally unexpected. After five years as Chief of Staff, I was planning to begin work as the VP of Clinical Effectiveness and Patient Safety. But things change.
When I was Chief of Staff I have communicated with GBMC’s 1200 physicians by a biweekly newsletter. Now as CEO I thought I’d emulate Paul Levy, the CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, whose blog Running a Hospital was touted as an example of communication and transparency by the IHI Patient Executive Training course I attended last December.
My purpose in this blog is to communicate with the GBMC community – the staff, nurses, physicians and patients. For those outside this great state of Maryland, GBMC is an independent, community teaching hospital in Towson, Maryland just north of Baltimore City. It has 308 licensed beds, 60,000 annual ED visits, 32 operating rooms in which we perform 32,000 surgical procedures per year and deliver about 4,800 babies. It was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Hospital for the Women of Maryland, Baltimore City and the Presbyterian Eye Ear Nose and Throat Charity Hospital. We have residency training programs in Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology. The last three are part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Also part of GBMC Healthcare is Gilchrist Hospice Care which serves surrounding counties with nearly 500 enrolled patients with a 34 bed on-campus facility and Greater Baltimore Medical Associates, a nearly 200 member multispecialty physician group.
This blog has a few rules to be followed. As with all hospital CEO’s I will not comment on any individual or legally confidential patient or employee matters though I’d be happy to refer individuals to the proper hospital personnel who can assist them. I am happy to answer any thoughtful questions about medicine or hospitals and look forward to sharing with the community the successes of GBMC.