For more than one hundred years, patients in the region have trusted us with their care from the basic to the most complex. The Verstandig Pavilion ensures we will continue to deliver world-class-care offering the latest medical advancements while remaining on the forefront of medicine.
Creating an environment of personalized care
At MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, we’re committed to creating an environment of personalized care focused on the unique needs of our patients. Our physicians—many of them fellowship-trained—are nationally and internationally renowned for their expertise, as well as for their innovative approaches from diagnosis to treatments.
Ranked as one of the region’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, our highly-specialized and multidisciplinary teams provide a full range of medical and surgical services for patients with routine and complex diseases. In addition, MedStar Georgetown was the first hospital in Washington, D.C., to receive Magnet® recognition for demonstrating excellence in nursing care. Since then, we have been re-designated four times given our outstanding commitment and dedication to our patients from our world-class nursing staff.
As we continue caring for people and advancing health, we remain on the forefront of healthcare delivery with the opening of our new Verstandig Pavilion. Nearly 477,000 square feet, the Pavilion houses 31 state-of-the-art operating rooms, 32 private rooms in a modern and expanded Emergency department, 3 levels of underground parking, and 156 private patient rooms designed to support patients and their loved ones. When time is of the essence, a helipad atop the Pavilion enables direct and immediate access to the appropriate point of care.
Founded in the Jesuit principle of cura personalis, caring for the whole person, MedStar Georgetown is dedicated to focusing on the full needs of our patients and their families that go beyond their immediate healthcare needs and providing the comfort they need to help them heal. This philosophy empowers our associates to work together to provide holistic care, as well as a trusting and compassionate environment.
Centers of excellence and healthcare services
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Transplant (MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute)
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Cancer services (MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute)
Awards and recognition
- U.S. News and World Report
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Magnet® Recognition for Excellence in Nursing
- National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons
- Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence
- Nationally Recognized in Maternity Care
- MedStar Georgetown Awarded FACT Accreditation
- Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence
- The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check Mark for Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers
- Apex Recognition for Commitment to Excellence in Respiratory Care by American Association for Respiratory Care
- First Patient Blood Management Certification
- Prism Award
- Beacon Award
- National Accreditation for Breast Center
- National Pancreas Foundation Center of Excellence
- Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
- American College of Radiology Accredited Facility
Visiting our hospital
Located right next to Georgetown University, our hospital is easily accessible by public transportation or by car. We offer two parking garages for patients and visitors, as well as limited valet parking and wheelchair assistance. View our parking directory.
Patient and visitor information
Providing a safe, comfortable environment for our patients, their loved ones, and our staff is essential to our commitment to delivering world-class care. Read about our up-to-date visitor policy, dining options, nearby hotel accommodations, and more.
Patient experience
Our commitment to our mission of providing physical and spiritual comfort to our patients and their families makes MedStar Georgetown a very special place to receive care. Learn more about what to expect when you visit us for care.
Insurance
MedStar Health participates with most major health insurance plans. Please contact your insurance company to make sure your plan is covered.
Our Services
Meet our leaders
The leaders of MedStar Georgetown are fully committed to supporting our mission of expert and compassionate patient care.
Meet our providers
Our physicians, many of them fellowship-trained, are nationally and internationally renowned for their expertise.
Provider of Choice and Clinical Care
Providing an exceptional patient experience and outcomes includes focusing on health equity.
In spring of 2023, we formally established our Health Equity operational structure, which consists of a Health Equity Leaders Coordinating Council (HELCC) that leads the work within the entities, and Health Equity Workgroups that provide actionable intelligence to inform the identification of healthcare disparity reduction priorities in partnership with the HELCC. The MedStar Health Quality & Safety Steering Committee serves as the governing body to approve the system priorities and sponsors the health equity initiatives. Together, these groups will develop and implement data-driven and community informed health equity strategies to reduce disparities across the system.
Health Equity Leaders Coordinating Council members were appointed at each entity to oversee execution to generate health equity advances within their entities and contribute to the implementation of systemwide health care disparity priorities reduction.
Health Equity Workgroups consist of multidisciplinary subject matter experts and key stakeholders from across the system, including all 10 hospitals, Home Care and Ambulatory Care. The workgroup synthesizes recommendations for health equity initiatives that are data-driven and community-engaged and support entity action plans. They focus on investigating options to improve performance, address gaps in existing demographic and language data, increase cultural humility in patient demographic data collection, and eliminate any systemic bias that affects equitable care.
Social Needs Tool and Patient Data Optimization – As race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other factors can render a patient subject to disparate care, we are working to improve the completeness and accuracy of data needed to support health equity initiatives. We want to ensure our patient data reflects the way our patients identify themselves and want to be represented. Beyond mere data capture, this entails educating our frontline teams about interpersonal approaches and methods that ensure appropriate interactions with patients.
In January 2024, Acute Case Management, Nursing, and Community Health collaborated to generate a new protocol to expand screening for social drivers of health social needs screening. All adult patients admitted to medicine, surgery or critical care are screened for unmet social needs such as housing, food, safety or transportation. As of June 2024, this initiative had generated 41,387 screenings, with nearly 2,300 social needs identified. Of patients with identified needs, 98% received a bilingual postcard to the MedStar Health Social Needs Tool and an opportunity to connect with Community Health for linkage to support services. An additional 600 screenings were completed at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital since the program was implemented there in March.
Cultural Humility in Demographic Data Collection: A new training program nurtures an inclusive experience at registration as associates acquire patient demographic data, Added features in our registration system support more complete and accurate data collection. Our frontline teams learn about interpersonal approaches and methods that ensure appropriate interactions with patients during the intake process. Cultural Humility training is required of all associates in patient-facing roles that collect personal information. More than 600 associates completed training within the first month of rollout.
Patient stories
Explore our medical education opportunities
As an academic medical center, our hospital is committed to training the next generation of physicians and clinical leaders through our graduate medical education program.
Emergency Medicine Residency Program
See a full list of our residency programs.
See a full list of our fellowship programs.