THE CAMPAIGN FOR UMMC MIDTOWN CAMPUS

Primary Care

The Foundation of Population Health

$5M

Although several Federally Qualified Health Centers in the city serve a significant number of families and children, significant gaps remain with insufficient capacity and access to comprehensive primary care. Health education, lifestyle management, preventive care and early detection of disease is proven to extend life expectancy, improve the quality of life, benefit communities and save health care costs. This is why primary care is the bedrock for improving the health of a population.

Midtown Health Center

The UMMC Midtown Campus has operated a primary care center with two to three providers for more than 10 years and has recently expanded the Midtown Health Center. The new center relocated to the 10th floor of the Outpatient Tower, allowing it to grow to eight primary care providers and 23 exam rooms to serve more than 12,000 individuals with comprehensive primary care and coordination with specialists and social support services.

This center also serves as an important educational site for UMMC Midtown Campus’s internal medicine resident trainees and the UM School of Nursing primary care Nurse Practitioner students.

Access to Screenings and Health Education

For more than 20 years, the UMMC Midtown Campus Community Health Education Center (CHEC) has offered tens of thousands of free health screenings and laboratory tests for HIV, diabetes, prostate-specific antigen, and other disease markers at no-cost. The CHEC provides educational programs designed to empower individuals to take control of their health and partners with community groups, churches, health fairs, and schools to bring health and lifestyle education directly to Baltimore residents. In West Baltimore, many neighborhoods are historically underserved and longstanding health disparities are well documented—making CHEC programs and services more important today than ever before.

The center comprises exam rooms for blood draws and to test blood pressure, cholesterol, pregnancy, glucose, and HIV. Further, new multipurpose classrooms and conference rooms include a health library and learning center to teach patients preventive care and classes to help instill healthy nutritional habits. The center operates at hours convenient for the people served. Individuals receive assistance in obtaining resources for treatment and arranging care within the Outpatient Tower that same day, if needed.

Meeting Our Patients’ Needs

As we learn more about our patients and the social determinants of health, UMMC Midtown Campus continues to invest in programs and specialties that address those needs, which include:

• Primary Care

• Center for Addiction Medicine (CAM)

• Inpatient, Outpatient and “Day Hospital” Psychiatric Care

• University of Maryland Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology (UMCDE)

UMMC Midtown Campus helps more than 15,000 people a year manage health issues and offers clinical expertise in virology, access to clinical research trials, and nursing and social work services focused on the needs of individuals with HIV/AIDS and other chronic viral diseases. Philanthropic support will enable us to expand our reach and impact to the community.