5755 Cedar Lane, Columbia, MD, 21044 · (410) 740-7890
Beds
245
FY 2025
Star rating
3 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$339.6M
FY 2025
Net income
$23.7M
Patient care margin -3.0%
Discharges
14,493
Occupancy 82.9%
Clinicians
515
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 | $339.6M | $349.8M | -3.0% | $23.7M | 14,493 | $14.8M | 36.2% | 8.9% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 9.6% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 10.8% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 8.9% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 13.3% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 9.5% | US median 11.6% |
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 | $316.6M | $331.0M | -4.5% | $20.7M | 17,726 | - | 37.3% | 5.6% |
| 2023 | $303.5M | $331.1M | -9.1% | $6.9M | 14,183 | - | 39.1% | 7.4% |
| 2022 | $299.8M | $323.9M | -8.0% | -$37.6M | 13,925 | - | 38.3% | 7.2% |
| 2021 | $277.7M | $280.8M | -1.1% | $54.8M | 13,792 | - | 36.5% | 9.3% |
| 2020 | $253.8M | $262.6M | -3.5% | $18.8M | 14,173 | $12.9M | 38.6% | 7.5% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.7% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.3% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.7% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 6.6% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.4% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.9% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.96 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.35 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.47 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.75 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.26 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.35 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 78% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 76% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 52% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 67% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 67% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 69% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 4% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 266 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 68% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 99% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 54% | US median 74% |
| 209 |
| $15,000.69 |
| $12,329.12 |
| $9,973.97 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 146 | $8,520.18 | $6,466.03 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 118 | $9,965.07 | $7,657.81 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 885 PSYCHOSES | 106 | $28,701.09 | $23,810.28 | $11,869.17 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 103 | $17,916.34 | $15,108.25 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 96 | $9,983.69 | $7,757.33 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 90 | $13,118.93 | $10,515.82 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 80 | $8,087.56 | $6,016.44 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 80 | $16,328.04 | $14,026.08 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 78 | $10,681.64 | $7,820.42 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 77 | $10,266.49 | $8,192.12 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 312 SYNCOPE AND COLLAPSE | 75 | $8,135.99 | $5,991.11 | $6,636.32 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 74 | $7,506.76 | $5,620.76 | $5,829.71 |
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.
Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Columbia, MD with 245 beds, part of Johns Hopkins Health System and a 3-star overall rating.
Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center in Columbia, MD has 245 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 233 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 14,493 inpatients that year, with 82.9% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $339.6M and operating expenses of $349.8M, a margin on patient care of -3.0%. After other income and expenses its net income was $23.7M (6.3% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center is part of Johns Hopkins Health System, a health system with 6 hospitals based in Baltimore, MD. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center has an overall rating of 3 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 2 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center provides emergency services.
515 Medicare clinicians list Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna), Nurse Practitioner, Hospitalist.
In 2024, Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center had 4,662 Medicare inpatient stays in 105 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 547 stays; Medicare paid $15,595.30 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.