201 East University Parkway, Baltimore, MD, 21218 · (410) 554-2227
Beds
189
FY 2025
Star rating
5 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$445.8M
FY 2025
Net income
-$3.8M
Patient care margin -8.1%
Discharges
8,352
Occupancy 69.4%
Clinicians
589
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $445.8M | $482.1M | -8.1% | -$3.8M | 8,352 | $12.0M | 39.6% | 5.1% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate after heart bypass surgery | 1.9% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for COPD patients | 6.8% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 11.6% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9.9% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.2% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 11.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $423.0M | $454.5M | -7.5% | -$3.1M | 8,756 | $9.8M | 41.6% | 5.5% |
| 2023 | $409.3M | $444.7M | -8.7% | -$3.4M | 8,872 | $11.3M | 44.2% | 6.2% |
| 2022 | $392.8M | $434.4M | -10.6% | -$29.9M | 9,379 | $9.0M | 46.2% | 4.2% |
| 2021 | $426.9M | $469.9M | -10.1% | $4.2M | 9,850 | $6.1M | 49.9% | 5.7% |
| 2020 | $419.7M | $430.6M | -2.6% | $14.8M | 9,361 | $9.4M | 53.3% | 5.2% |
| 11.4% |
| US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 9.3% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 21.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.9% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 19.7% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.8% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 15.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.5% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.98 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.68 | US median 0.28 |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.48 · better |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.60 · better |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.21 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 78% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 74% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 48% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 67% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 69% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 69% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 2% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 218 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 16% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 59% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 96% | US median 79% |
| 119 |
| $54,180.87 |
| $43,579.55 |
| $40,566.75 |
| DRG 286 CIRCULATORY DISORDERS EXCEPT AMI, WITH CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION WITH MCC | 113 | $35,970.57 | $29,044.65 | $17,632.75 |
| DRG 470 MAJOR HIP AND KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT OR REATTACHMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY WITHOUT MCC | 101 | $31,513.04 | $25,304.87 | $14,289.25 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 95 | $32,271.38 | $25,915.97 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 460 SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITHOUT MCC | 60 | $55,732.10 | $46,551.82 | $27,891.78 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 56 | $28,258.09 | $22,344.38 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 274 PERCUTANEOUS AND OTHER INTRACARDIAC PROCEDURES WITHOUT MCC | 54 | $33,842.96 | $25,943.39 | $24,748.54 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 50 | $17,876.64 | $13,978.54 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 321 PERCUTANEOUS CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES WITH INTRALUMINAL DEVICE WITH MCC OR 4+ ARTERIES/ | 47 | $27,490.87 | $21,432.68 | $22,190.93 |
| DRG 236 CORONARY BYPASS WITHOUT CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION WITHOUT MCC | 45 | $76,549.36 | $60,145.20 | $29,653.93 |
| DRG 243 PERMANENT CARDIAC PACEMAKER IMPLANT WITH CC | 41 | $30,635.78 | $26,179.07 | $17,314.69 |
| DRG 468 REVISION OF HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT WITHOUT CC/MCC | 38 | $35,940.45 | $27,364.34 | $19,721.95 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 36 | $20,695.39 | $17,152.67 | $10,642.23 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Medstar Union Memorial Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Baltimore, MD with 189 beds, part of MedStar Health and a 5-star overall rating.
Medstar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD has 189 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 370 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 8,352 inpatients that year, with 69.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Medstar Union Memorial Hospital reported net patient revenue of $445.8M and operating expenses of $482.1M, a margin on patient care of -8.1%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$3.8M (-0.8% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Medstar Union Memorial Hospital is part of MedStar Health, a health system with 10 hospitals based in Columbia, MD. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Medstar Union Memorial Hospital has an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital provides emergency services.
589 Medicare clinicians list Medstar Union Memorial Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Physician Assistant, Diagnostic Radiology.
In 2024, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital had 2,910 Medicare inpatient stays in 98 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 245 stays; Medicare paid $27,327.27 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $364K in payments to Medstar Union Memorial Hospital as a teaching hospital ($37K general and $327K for research) from 9 companies.