University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center Named Among Nation's Top 381 Hospitals by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (UM SJMC) was one of only 381 hospitals in the nation—and one of only two in the entire state of Maryland—to earn five out of five stars from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its 2024 Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings report.
CMS created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers make informed decisions about where to go for healthcare. CMS assessed more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide, rating their performance in seven key areas: mortality, readmission, safety of care, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care and efficient use of medical imaging.
This is the seventh time in a row that UM SJMC has received CMS’s highest rating, and the hospital is currently the only hospital in Maryland to have both a 5-Star CMS rating and a Grade ‘A’ for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization. “Our singular focus is the care and safety of our patients,” says Thomas B. Smyth, MD, president and chief executive officer at UM SJMC. “This superb rating from CMS speaks to our commitment to continuous improvement and our dedication to standardizing best-practice care processes that mean optimal outcomes and exceptional experiences for our patients. We’re proud of this accomplishment and honored to serve our community.”
A complete listing of the nation’s 5-Star CMS Hospitals is available online.
About University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
Founded in 1864 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, UM St. Joseph Medical Center is a 221-bed Catholic, not-for-profit regional medical center in Towson, Maryland, that offers a wide range of superb clinical programs and centers of excellence, including the Cancer, Heart and Orthopaedic Institutes, Women and Children’s services and Emergency Medicine. The medical center’s committed focus on zero patient harm, clinical excellence and perfect patient experiences spurred the creation of the hospital’s unique approach to care, The UM St. Joseph Value Delivery System, and has consistently earned UM St. Joseph regional and national recognition for patient care and safety, including its ranking as the #1 community hospital in Maryland by U.S. News & World Report. UM St. Joseph is a proud member of the 11-hospital University of Maryland Medical System, dedicated to providing loving service and compassionate, leading-edge care to all.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high-quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore, who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit umms.org.