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Causes: Education, General Hospitals, Graduate & Professional Schools, Health, Hospitals
Mission: Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. Revenues are used to help defray the costs of services provided.
Programs: University of maryland medical system ("umms"), a private, non-profit health system, consists of 13 hospitals - the university of maryland medical center (ummc), the academic 'hub' - and the 12 community and specialty hospitals throughout the state of maryland. Ummc is a national and regional referral center for trauma, cancer care, neurocare, cardiac care and heart surgery, women's and children's health and organ transplants. It has one of the most technologically advanced operating room facilities and is internationally recognized for its leadership in developing and performing minimally invasive surgical procedures. Umms provides charity care to patients unable to pay. Charity care for the year ended 6/30/2017 is approximately $15,053,251 at cost.