The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Number of Employees: 15,000
Location: Baltimore, MD

What does it take to be the Best of the Best for nine consecutive years?

Throughout this decade, the Johns Hopkins Hospital has ranked first among America's Best Hospitals in the annual independent survey by U.S. News & World Report. Earning this recognition is an honor. It's also a responsibility, and Johns Hopkins has an impressive history of meeting its responsibilities to patients, the community, and the medical professionals behind some of the most important medical advances of the past 100 years. If you've proven your ability to perform among the top achievers in heal th care, you're already a Johns Hopkins-caliber professional. Now you can have a Johns Hopkins-caliber career.

At our 1000+ bed tertiary teaching hospital, we're distinguished by the strength of our commitment to your continued professional development. Working at locations throughout the Baltimore metropolitan area, our 15,000 physicians, nurses, rehabilitation and allied health professionals, students, staff and volunteers, supported by today's most advanced medical technology, pursue a progressive, research-oriented approach to medicine that enhances both the patient care and the medical expertise you'll find here. And the scope of specialty services we provide is as impressive as the level of achievement we attain. There are many reasons to seek medical care at Johns Hopkins. Naturally, working here offers equally compelling rewards and benefits. The compensation available to you as a member of our team includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short- and long-term disability and professional liability insurance, a retirement plan, tax-deferred annuities, vacation, holiday and sick leave, and a pre-tax spending account. You'll also benefit from the resources available in our library and enjoy the advantages of our on-site MTA Metro subway station, sponsored cultural events, and other quality-of-life "extras" available exclusively to our staff.

Some of the most important medical advances of the past 100+ years:

• first hospital in the nation designed for teaching
• first hospital to use rubber gloves, curbing lethal infections after surgery - 1889
• first successful tissue culture - 1907
• insulin purified - 1926
• biorhythms discovered - 1927
• blue-baby operation opens heart surgery era - 1944
• dramamine discovered to curb motion sickness - 1948
• 3 types of polio virus discovered - 1949
• CPR used for the first time - 1958
• development of first implantable, rechargeable cardiac pacemaker - 1973
• first use of genetically engineered t-PA to stop heart attack - 1984
• first university-affiliated pediatric clinic
• first psychiatric clinic in a general teaching hospital
• development of modern methods of water purification
• discovery of vitamin D
• first fully-organized school of public health
• first direct blood transfusion
• first culture of cancer cells in artificial media
• discovery of mercurochrome, adrenaline, heparin
• discovery of opiate receptor
• discovery of restriction enzymes, key to mapping the gene strand and to preventing and treating malformations, hereditary diseases and cancer

Scope of Specialty Services:

The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a Mid-Atlantic referral center for neurological disorders and has a Level I Emergency Trauma Center and a Level III NICU. We are rated first in the country for our ophthalmology and urology programs, have cardiology and AIDS programs ranked among the nation's finest, and are noted for our specialties in: