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MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is one of the
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area's oldest academic
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s. It is a not-for-profit,
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teaching and research facility located in the Georgetown neighborhood of the Northwest Quadrant of
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MedStar Georgetown is co-located with the
Georgetown University Medical Center Georgetown University Medical Center is a Washington, D.C.–based biomedical research and educational organization affiliated with Georgetown University that is responsible for over 80% of the university's sponsored research funding and is led ...
and is affiliated with the Georgetown University School of Medicine. The hospital is home to the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and centers of excellence in
gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, sometime ...
,
neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...
,
neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system ...
,
organ transplantation Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be trans ...
,
psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...
, and
vascular surgery Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which vascular diseases involving the arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. The specialty evolve ...
. Originally named Georgetown University Hospital, it became part of the
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network in 2000. The hospital has 609 licensed beds and employs over 4,000 personnel. In 2023, the hospital opened a new $750 million pavilion, containing a new emergency department, rooftop helipad, 31 advanced operating rooms, and over 150 private patient rooms.


History


19th century

Georgetown University Hospital was founded in 1898 as part of
Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
. The facility opened with 33 beds and was staffed by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia.


20th century

The hospital moved to its current location at 3800 Reservoir Road NW in
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in 1930. In 1946, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth took over operation of the hospital. In 1947, the main hospital was built and was the first building erected in what is now the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital complex. In 1988, the hospital was involved in the important
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case '' Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital'', in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that agencies may not promulgate retroactive rules unless expressly authorized by
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.


21st century

The hospital has grown to include a community physician practice, the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and scores of clinical departments and divisions. Through its 100-year relationship with
Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
, the hospital collaborates in training students from both the School of Medicine, including nearly 500 residents and fellows annually, and the School of Nursing and Health Studies. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital works closely with the university's research enterprise to help bring innovative therapies from the scientific laboratory to the patient bedside. The hospital, now more than 80 percent renovated, houses multiple patient units, hospital administration offices, and hospital support services. In July 2000, Georgetown University entered into a partnership with Medstar Health, a not-for-profit organization of two other
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hospitals and five
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-based hospitals, including another Catholic hospital. In October 2000, M. Joy Drass, MD, an alumna of Georgetown University School of Medicine, was appointed MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's president. With primary care providers at nine sites in Washington, D.C.,
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, and
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, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital's clinical services represent one of the largest, most geographically diverse and fully integrated healthcare delivery networks in the area. In June 2017, the city zoning commission approved the construction of a new medical and surgical pavilion. Construction on the new pavilion began in early 2018. In November 2021, Grant Verstandig, an entrepreneur and investor, donated $50 million to the hospital for the construction of the new pavilion. The Verstandig Pavilion opened on December 10, 2023. Construction cost approximately $750 million. The building comprises approximately , contains 31 operating rooms with intraoperative MRIs, a new
emergency department An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the Acute (medicine), ...
containing 32 examination rooms, 156 private patient rooms, and a new rooftop
helipad A helipad is the landing area of a heliport, in use by helicopters, powered lift, and vertical lift aircraft to land on surface. While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fa ...
. A three-story parking garage is beneath the building, and of newly created green space surround the building.


Operations

The research and education programs affiliated with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, including its residencies, fellowships, and
clinical trials Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioral interventions, including new treatments (such as novel v ...
, continue to be administered by
Georgetown University Medical Center Georgetown University Medical Center is a Washington, D.C.–based biomedical research and educational organization affiliated with Georgetown University that is responsible for over 80% of the university's sponsored research funding and is led ...
. Specialty areas in which the hospital has been ranked in recent years include
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, digestive disorders,
ear, nose and throat Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...
,
geriatrics Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a medical specialty focused on addressing the unique health needs of older adults. The term ''geriatrics'' originates from the Greek γέρων ''geron'' meaning "old man", and ιατρός ''iatros'' mean ...
,
gynaecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, which focuses on pre ...
,
heart disease Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina pectoris, angina, myocardial infarction, heart attack), heart failure, ...
, hormonal disorders,
gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, sometime ...
,
kidney disease Kidney disease, or renal disease, technically referred to as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is an Inflammation, inflammatory kidney disease and has several types according to the location of the inflammation. Infla ...
,
neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...
,
neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system ...
,
orthopedics Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (American and British English spelling differences, alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgic ...
,
psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...
, respiratory disorders,
rheumatology Rheumatology () is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatology covers more than 100 different complex diseases, c ...
, and
urology Urology (from Ancient Greek, Greek wikt:οὖρον, οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and ''wiktionary:-logia, -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of t ...
. The Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only facility in the
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to be designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a Comprehensive Care Center. MedStar Georgetown's Transplant Institute is ranked among the best in the
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by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients for
liver transplantation Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with the healthy liver from another person (allograft). Liver transplantation is a treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure, al ...
outcomes and is one of few centers in the country to provide living-donor liver transplants. Georgetown Neurosciences is first on the U.S. East Coast and the sixth in the nation to offer the Cyberknife, a relatively new device in stereotactic radiosurgery to treat tumors and lesions of the brain, neck, and spine. MedStar Georgetown is home to the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only facility in the
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designated by the
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(NCI) as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. In July 2000, Georgetown University Hospital became part of
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, a non–profit network of seven regional hospitals, which together see more than 7000 new cancer patients annually. In 2007, over 200 patients participated in therapeutic trials at the Lombardi Cancer Center.


Rankings and recognition

In 2001, '' U.S. News & World Report'' "Best Hospitals" issue ranked the hospital in 13 specialties, more categories than any other
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hospital. In 2004, the hospital was awarded Magnet Status by the
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(ANCC). MedStar Georgetown was the first, and remains the only, hospital in
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to be awarded this distinction.


Hospital rating data

The Healthgrades website contains the clinical quality data for Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, as of 2018. For this rating section clinical quality rating data, patient safety ratings and patient experience ratings are presented. For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital the data for this category is: *Worse than expected – 6 *As expected – 17 *Better than expected – 1 For patient safety ratings the same three possible ratings are used. For this hospital they are" *Worse than expected – 4 *As expected – 8 *Better than expected – 1 Percentage of patients rating this hospital as a 9 or 10 – 70% Percentage of patients who on average rank hospitals as a 9 or 10 – 69%


Notable births, hospitalizations, and deaths


Births

* Douglas Harriman Kennedy, March 24, 1967 *
John F. Kennedy Jr. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American socialite, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was a son of 35th United States president John F. K ...
, November 25, 1960 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr., January 17, 1954 *
Rory Kennedy Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an American documentary filmmaker. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, her Anti-nuclear movement, opposition to nuclear power, the treatm ...
, December 12, 1968 * Mark Kennedy Shriver, February 17, 1964 * Rondy Wooten, January 8, 1966


Hospitalizations

*
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...
, 2024 * Eddie Foster, 1913 * Frank Gill, 1982 *
Rudy Giuliani Rudolph William Louis Giuliani ( , ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and Disbarment, disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney ...
, 2020 * Ralph McGehee, 1972


Deaths

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Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo (13 December 1903 – 3 September 1979) was a prominent Venezuelan diplomat, politician and lawyer primarily responsible for the inception and creation of the OPEC, along with Saudi Arabian minister Abdullah Tariki. Ea ...
, September 3, 1979 * Henry F. Ashurst, May 31, 1962 *
Mustafa Barzani Mustafa Barzani (14 March 1903 – 1 March 1979), also known as Mullah Mustafa, was a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics. In 1946, he was chosen as the leader of the Kurdistan ...
, March 1, 1979 * Ben H. Brown Jr., May 25, 1989 * Thomas McPherson Brown, April 17, 1989 * Katharine Byron, December 28, 1976 * John Moors Cabot, February 24, 1981 * Walter Compton, December 9, 1959 * Douglas DeGood, December 1, 2019 *
Charles Burke Elbrick Charles Burke Elbrick (March 25, 1908 – April 12, 1983) was an American diplomat and career foreign service officer. During his career, he served three ambassadorships: in Portugal, Yugoslavia and Brazil, in addition to numerous minor postings ...
, April 12, 1983 * John H. Fanning, July 21, 1990 *
James C. Fletcher James Chipman Fletcher (June 5, 1919 – December 22, 1991) served as the 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA, first from April 27, 1971, to May 1, 1977, under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and again from May 12, 1986, to ...
, December 22, 1991 * Don Flickinger, February 23, 1997 * J. Eugene Gallery, July 28, 1960 * William C. Gloth, December 3, 1944 * Guy L. Goodwin, December 10, 2007 * Robert Newton Harper, September 23, 1940 * Robert O. Harris, October 1, 2007 * Robert W. Hasbrouck, August 19, 1985 * Joseph J. Himmel, November 3, 1924 * John Jay Hopkins, May 3, 1957 * Peter Leo Ireton, April 27, 1958 * Henry Arnold Karo, May 23, 1986 *
Jan Karski Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, Polish resistance movement in World War II, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to ...
, July 13, 2000 * Richard T. Kennedy, January 12, 1998 * Ray Krouse, April 9, 1966 * Evelyn Lincoln, May 11, 1995 *
Vince Lombardi Vincent Thomas Lombardi ( ; June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American professional football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). Lombardi is considered by many to be among the greatest coaches and leaders in Ame ...
, September 3, 1970 *
Stasys Lozoraitis Jr. Stasys Lozoraitis Jr. (August 2, 1924 – June 13, 1994) was a Lithuanian diplomat and politician who served as the Head of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service from 1987 to 1991, Chief Diplomat to the United States 1991 to 1993 and Ambassador to Ita ...
, June 13, 1994 * Frank Lyon, November 29, 1955 * Lester Machta, August 31, 2001 * Stephen May, March 31, 2016 *
Brien McMahon Brien McMahon (born James O'Brien McMahon) (October 6, 1903July 28, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate (as a Democrat from Connecticut) from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the estab ...
, July 28, 1952 * Lillian B. Miller, November 27, 1997 * J. Murray Mitchell, October 5, 1990 * Raymond Muir, June 23, 1954 * John O'Donnell, December 17, 1961 * Arthur A. O'Leary, February 8, 1962 * Glenn E. Plumb, August 1, 1922 * David H. Popper, July 24, 2008 *
Carroll Quigley Carroll Quigley (; November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977) was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown Univer ...
, January 3, 1977 * William Reinhart, February 14, 1971 *
James J. Reynolds James Joseph Reynolds Jr. (January8, 1907October9, 1986) was the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor, Under Secretary of Labor during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in the United States. Earlier he served as Assistant Secretary for Labor ...
, October 9, 1986 * Hugh Seton-Watson, December 19, 1984 * Stephen N. Shulman, January 22, 2011 * Ormond Simkins, December 4, 1921 * Walter T. Skallerup Jr., July 29, 1987 *
Tony Snow Robert Anthony Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was an American journalist, political commentator, anchor, columnist, musician, and the 25th White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, from May 2006 until his resignation ...
, July 12, 2008 * Harold P. Stern, April 3, 1977 *
Jack Swigert John Leonard Swigert Jr. (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of A ...
, December 27, 1982 * John Sylvester, July 26, 1990 * Bertram D. Tallamy, September 14, 1989 * Robert H. Thayer, January 26, 1984 * Caroline van Hook Bean, December 24, 1980 * Ellen Hardin Walworth, June 23, 1915 * Paul W. Ward, November 24, 1976 *
Earl Warren Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presid ...
, July 9, 1974 *
James E. Webb James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second Administrator of NASA, Administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to Octob ...
, March 27, 1992 *
Edward Bennett Williams Edward Bennett Williams (May 31, 1920 – August 13, 1988) was an American lawyer, businessman, and sports team owner. He received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross before studying law at Georgetown University. He worke ...
, August 13, 1988 * Frank J. Wilson, June 22, 1970 * Raymond Workman, August 21, 1966 * Lawrence A. Wright, March 19, 2000 *
Charles Yost Charles Woodruff Yost (November 6, 1907 – May 21, 1981) was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971. Early life and education Yost was born in Watertown, New York. ...
, May 21, 1981


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