MedStar Union Memorial Hospital

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
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Geography
Location201 East University Parkway, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Coordinates39°19′45″N 76°36′51″W / 39.3291°N 76.6143°W / 39.3291; -76.6143
Organization
Care systemPrivate not-for-profit
TypeTeaching
Services
Beds192[1]
History
Opened1854
Links
Websitemedstarunionmemorial.org
ListsHospitals in Maryland

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital is a non-profit, acute care teaching hospital located in the North Central section of Baltimore, Maryland. The hospital is a member of MedStar Health, a community-based network of Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area hospitals and other health care services.

In 2014, the magazine U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital 10th in Maryland, and 9th in the Baltimore metropolitan area.[2] For cardiology, cardiac surgery, and orthopedic surgery, it is ranked[by whom?] among the top 50 hospitals in the U.S..[citation needed]

Jazz leader Chick Webb worked in the hospital as a youngster, and Mickey Mantle received treatment at the hospital. In 1939, the gangster Al Capone spent time at the hospital to cure his paresis caused by syphilis, after his release from Alcatraz, after which he donated two cherry trees to the hospital.[3] One tree was later cut down to allow the construction of a new wing of the hospital.

References

  1. ^ "Licensed Acute Care Hospital Beds Fiscal Year 2018" (PDF). mhcc.maryland.gov. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "MedStar Union Memorial Hospital". U.S. News & World Report. 2014.
  3. ^ "Al Capone - Storm slices tree Capone gave to Union Memorial". Baltimore Sun. February 9, 2010. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2014.