About Our Hospital | MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center | MedStar Health
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Committed to the highest-quality care and improving our community’s health

MedStar Franklin Square is proud to celebrate more than 120 years of service to our community and more than 50 years at our campus in eastern Baltimore County. As one of the fastest growing and most highly regarded hospitals in the region, we offer comprehensive, innovative treatment for a wide range of medical conditions.

Building a legacy

Learn more about our hospital's history, the people who have played a key role in shaping it, and how our partnership with the Community College of Baltimore County allows us to continuously cultivate new generations of healthcare workers, locally.

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Learn more about our history and award-winning patient care.

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Leaders in teaching, treatment, and technology

One of the top 25 community teaching hospitals in the U.S., MedStar Franklin Square offers leading-edge levels of care, treatment, and technology in areas such as:

Investing in high-quality patient care

MedStar Franklin Square provides comprehensive, technology-based surgical services, offering the latest, most innovative treatment for patients with various medical conditions. Our distinguished specialty service lines include medicine, oncology, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics, neonatal intensive care, behavioral health, neurology, neurosurgery, and ambulatory services.

As a tertiary center in northeast Baltimore, we recruit neurology, cardiology, oncology, and integrated surgical service experts. Wellness programs continue to be offered to our associates and clinicians so we can better serve our patients. We continue to expand our programs, achieve outside recognitions such as Magnet and Comprehensive Stroke, and invest in our campus. We opened our first-in-the-region Discharge Hospitality Center for non-ambulatory patients, a dedicated Baltimore Regional Anatomic Pathology lab, and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Procedures unit.

Community contributions

With more than 2,600 skilled professionals and over 1000 nurses, our hospital is one of the largest employers in Baltimore County. We have more than 900 practicing physicians, employed and affiliated, who chose MedStar Franklin Square as their hospital of choice in the Baltimore region.

Additionally, our hospital continuously invests in community health and wellness initiatives. In 2023, more than $64.7 million was allocated to community benefit programs. Visit our Community Health page to learn more.

Our mission, vision, and values

Mission

We are the leader in providing safe and innovative patient-centered care, exceptional service and education to improve the health of the diverse communities we serve.

Vision

Our vision is to be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health.

Values

Truly living our mission and vision means providing you with the information you need about the quality of care we provide. It is important to us that you feel confident in choosing our hospital for yourself and your family. That’s why we’d like to share our SPIRIT values that inform everything we do for you:
  • Service: We strive to anticipate and meet the needs of our patients, physicians, and co-workers.
  • Patient First: We strive to deliver the best to every patient every day. The patient is the first priority in everything we do.
  • Integrity: We communicate openly and honestly, build trust, and conduct ourselves according to the highest ethical standards.
  • Respect: We treat each individual, those we serve and those with whom we work, with the highest professionalism and dignity.
  • Innovation: We embrace change and work to improve all we do in a fiscally responsible manner.
  • Teamwork: System effectiveness is built on collective strength and cultural diversity of everyone, working with open communication and mutual respect.

Facts and figures

Numbers don’t tell our whole story, but they help to spotlight our capabilities and service to the community.

Fiscal year 2024

  • 357

    Total licensed beds

  • 997

    Total number of physicians

  • 1,060

    Nurses

  • 2,776

    Total associates

  • 65,207

    Annual emergency department visits

  • 19,907

    Annual admissions

  • 6,425

    Annual observations

  • 20,102

    Annual surgeries

  • 1,936

    Annual baby deliveries

Awards

Accredited by the Joint Commission, MedStar Franklin Square is proud to have earned some of the region and nation’s most prestigious honors and accolades.