UMMC opens $70M Midtown outpatient tower

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The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) at Midtown Tuesday opened a new 10-story Outpatient Tower designed to meet the needs of patients with multiple health conditions under one roof.

For the millions of people with multiple, often related health issues such as diabetes, lung, heart or kidney disease, eye problems and other challenges, streamlined care makes a profound difference in their physical and emotional health. Connecting all the experts involved in their care — including some of the region’s leading academic clinicians and social support professionals — the new Outpatient Tower will give back time previously spent seeing providers in different, often distant locations.

Such team-based, academic medicine is considered the top echelon of care, hallmarked by medical experts from different specialties who closely collaborate on a patient’s care. In turn, this results in more accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans, grounded in a holistic view of the patient’s health and evidence-based interventions.

The building itself, which will be LEED-certified, is designed to promote the health of patients, employees and the surrounding neighborhood. Built by Clark Construction Group and designed by CRGA Design, the Outpatient Tower features elements such as a roof that will have implanted vegetation; bike racks and showers for employees who bike to work; and sediment ponds that prevent storm water runoff from polluting important waterways like the Baltimore Harbor.

The new tower offers specialties and services such as cardiology, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, opthalmology, nephrology and kidney care, pulmonary disease, sleep disorders and it will also house a Community Health Education Center.