Georgetown University Hospital

3800 Reservoir Road, NW,
Washington, DC, 20007
(202) 444 – 2000
www.georgetownuniversityhospital.org/

For more than 100 years, Georgetown University Hospital has promoted health through education, research and patient care. A non-profit, acute care, teaching and research facility, Georgetown University Hospital is the largest and most geographical diverse provider of health care services in the DC area. Since 2000, Georgetown University Hospital has been a MedStar health facility, an affiliation that improves clinical efficiency and increases the diversity of clinical experiences available to its students.

Georgetown University Hospital offers up-to-date and sophisticated inpatient facilities and advanced medical technology. It is particularly well-known for its Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, which has been named a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute. Its transplant unit is ranked among the best in the mid Atlantic and is one of the few facilities that provides living donor liver transplants. Georgetown University Hospital is also the first East Coast hospital to offer the CyberKnife, the most advanced option in stereotactic radiosurgery, used to treat lesions and tumors of the brain, neck and spine.

Georgetown University Hospital has been ranked among the top hospitals in recent years in the following specialty areas: cancer, digestive disorders, ear-nose and throat, geriatrics, gynecology, heart disease, hormonal disorders, kidney disease, neurology, neuro-surgery, psychiatry, respiratory disorders, rheumatology, urology, gastroenterology and orthopedics.

Medical services at the hospital include the Center for Wound Healing, Clinical Pharmacology, the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dermatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, Health Information Management, Hematology/Oncology, General Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Interventional Neuroradiology, Laboratory Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Psychiatry, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Radiation Medicine, Radiology and Interventional Radiology, Cardiac Services, Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergies.

Surgical services include: Anesthesia, Foot and Ankle Center, Center for Hand and Elbow Specialists, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pediatric Diseases, Plastic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Transplant Institute & International Center for Liver Diseases, Urology, and Vascular Surgery.

When Georgetown University Hospital opened in 1898, it had 33 beds. Now, it boasts 609 beds, more than 1,100 physicians on staff, and employs more than 4,000 personnel. It moved to Reservoir Road in 1930, and remains there to this day. In 2000, it became a MedStar Health Facility. MedStar Health is a not-for-profit network of 9 hospitals and 20 health related businesses located in Maryland and the DC area. It employs more than 5,300 physicians and 23,000 associates. Each year, MedStar facilities serve more than 500,000 patients, including 166,000 inpatient admissions and 1.6 million outpatient visits.

Georgetown University Hospital is one of several hospitals in the Washington, DC area. For your convenience, the Abelson Law Offices Website has a directory of other Washington DC, health care facilities.

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