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The Adolf
Meyer Center for Psychiatry and the Neurosciences is a nine story building
constructed in 1982. It houses the clinical, diagnostic, and research activities
for the Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. The facility
solidifies interactions among these services which at Hopkins have considerable
overlapping and often converging interests. Administrative offices, beds,
operating rooms, diagnostic and research laboratories are in proximity.
Resident on-call rooms are centrally located. Additionally, there is a branch
of the Welch Medical Library on the eighth floor of the Meyer Center devoted
exclusively to the Neurosciences.
The Adolf Meyer Adult Neurology Service
The Adult Neurology service, combined with Neurosurgery, consists of 80 beds. It serves as the inpatient service for patients followed in the Hopkins Neurology Consultation Clinic, a major tertiary referral clinic, as well as offering neurologic care to the neighboring community. Adjacent to the ward is a 6 bed, 24 hour Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU), independently staffed by an attending epileptologist and an epilepsy fellow. The EMU provides diagnostic and therapeutic services as well as seizure locus mapping in preparation for surgery. The Brain Recovery Unit is a 4 bed service dedicated to the care of patients with TIA and stroke. The unit is staffed by cerebrovascular neurologists and a nurse practitioner.
The Adult Neurology Consultation Service
The department staffs a busy consultation service, providing neurological care to all medical and surgical services in addition to the Emergency Room, Oncology Center, Labor and Delivery Suites, the Frank E. Polk AIDS Service, and the Wilmer Ophthalomogic Institute. As a member of one of two consultative teams assigned to the hospital, residents are exposed to the full spectrum of neurologic manifestations of medical and surgical diseases.
The Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
The Johns Hopkins Hospital was among the first of a growing number of institutions with facilities dedicated to acute and chronic intensive care of patients with neurologic diseases including subarachnoid hemorrhage, intercerebral hemorrhage, Guillain-Barre Syndrome and myasthenic crisis. The unit is staffed by attendings from the departments of Neurology and Anesthesia who have specialty training in Neurological/Neurosurgical Critical Care.
The Johns Hopkins Bayview Adult Neurology Inpatient
and Consultation Service
The
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (JHBMC) is a 400 bed primary care facility
located two miles east of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The Department
of Neurology is under the direction of Dr. Richard O'Brien. He and his staff
hold full time faculty appointments in the Department of Neurology at Hopkins.
They have an inpatient service of 8 critical care beds, 6 intermediate care
beds and 15 inpatient service beds, for a total of 29 beds dedicated to
neurological and neurosurgical patient care. There is a high percentage
of epilepsy and stroke represented among patients admitted to the inpatient
service. To support this need, there is a strong cerebrovascular group within
the hospital. Neurologic intensive care is supervised by the inpatient ward
team. The facilitiy also has an active consultation and outpatient service.
The consultation service serves the inpatient medical and surgical services
as well as the Hopkins Geriatric Center and Chronic AIDS facility. Also
based at JHBMC are the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, the Gerontology
Research Center of the National Institutes of Aging, the Johns Hopkins Asthma
and Allergy Center, and several new biotechnology ventures independent of
the University. The Adult Neurology Consultation Service at Sinai Hospital
Sinai Hospital (500 beds) is a primary care facility located in the northwest section of Baltimore. The Neurology Service is staffed by full-time faculty and functions primarily in a consultative capacity. Areas of special interest among the faculty at Sinai include neurosarcidosis, stroke, epilepsy, migraine and Parkinson's Disease.
The Johns Hopkins Pediatric Neurology and Consultation Service
The Department of Neurology provides both pediatric inpatient and consultation services in the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. The spectrum of pediatric neurologic care provided is broad, including seizures, trauma, metabolic disorders, developmental disorders, Guillain-Barre, movement disorders, neuromuscular disease, myasthenia gravis and infectious diseases of the nervous system. This consultation team serves general pediatric patients, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and the Emergency Room.
The Johns
Hopkins Outpatient Center To meet the increasing emphasis on outpatient care, residents are involved in monthly rotations in faculty supervised clinics in each subspecialty of Neurology, including neurovirology, neuromuscular, cerebro-
vascular disease, multiple sclerosis, vestibular and eye movement disorders, movement disorders, epilepsy, transverse myelitis, cognitive neurology, and general neurology. In addition to the above faculty sponsored clinics, each resident is also involved in their own continuity clinic which meets weekly. These clinics are supervised by members of the part-time faculty on a rotating basis. The newly constructed Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center is located across the street from the Johns Hopkins Hospital and houses most of the outpatient clinics for the institution. It is an L-shaped, 8 story building with two distinct, separate but connecting wings; one for patient care and one for faculty offices, research and support services. The Department of Neurology has clinic space on the fifth floor of the building with 26 patient exam rooms and neurophysiology laboratories consisting of EEG and EMG. Ancillary services such as CT, MRI, and phlebotomy are located on site.
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