Healthy Communities
In fiscal year 2024, the Johns Hopkins Health System hospitals spent $597 million throughout Maryland and Washington, D.C., on activities to strengthen its communities, build strong partnerships and improve the health and wellness of the residents they serve.
Activities that benefit the community include:
- Direct health services, outreach and education programs including screenings, free clinics, support groups, mobile units and more.
- Contributions to local community organizations to support neighborhood outreach work.
- Community building activities such as economic development, workforce development and housing improvement programs.
- The cost of free and reduced cost medical care provided to uninsured or underinsured low-income patients.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Johns Hopkins Hospital has over 300 programs that support efforts to meet the needs of the community.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center staff provide public outreach programs, health seminars and screenings, many of which are free.
Growing With Hopkins
Every few months, Sandra drives to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Comprehensive Care Practice to see her doctor. When she visits, she also picks up two bags of groceries from Hopkins Community Connection’s food pantry. Hopkins Community Connection (HCC) is a Johns Hopkins organization that offers resources to Johns Hopkins Medicine patients. “I appreciate the program,” says Sandra. “The staff is polite and helpful, and they let me choose what I want to get.”
Neighborhood Nursing Program
The Johns Hopkins program works to bypass structural barriers to health services by bringing care directly to where people live, work, play and pray.
Vision for Baltimore
The Johns Hopkins program delivers vision services for all students from pre-K through eighth grade – and in some high schools – in Baltimore City public schools. Powerful research from Johns Hopkins’ Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease Study demonstrated that there is often a connection between reading difficulty among young students and vision problems.
