MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital

MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital sits on Belvedere Avenue in northeast Baltimore, Maryland, and operates as part of MedStar Health, the nonprofit system covering the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Founded in the 1960s through the Catholic health tradition, the hospital has developed a service profile weighted toward musculoskeletal and post-acute care rather than functioning as a general full-service community hospital across every specialty.

Clinical strengths include orthopedics and joint replacement, spine care, nephrology and dialysis, rheumatology, wound care, and rehabilitation, alongside medical and surgical inpatient units, intensive care, and emergency services. Inpatient rehabilitation and subacute care give the hospital a substantial post-acute component, so patient stays often run longer than at a typical acute care facility. Nurses practice across orthopedic and surgical units, medical-surgical, critical care, perioperative, emergency, dialysis, and rehabilitation settings, with a patient mix that skews older and carries significant chronic disease and mobility needs. The hospital serves as a clinical placement site for area nursing programs. As with other MedStar facilities, system employment allows nurses to transfer among hospitals across Maryland and the District of Columbia without changing employers.