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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University October 20, 2003 | Vol. 33 No. 8
 
Name Change: Geriatrics Facility Is Now the Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center

Last week the Geriatrics Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center became the Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center.

The new name reflects a broad range of services that has expanded beyond the program's nursing home roots, according to officials making the announcement Oct. 14. More accurately described as "continuing care" services, the center's offerings include ventilator rehabilitation, inpatient rehabilitation, specialized wound care, long-term care, geriatrics medicine and sub-acute and transitional care.

"Many of these services are a bridge between hospital and home, with a strong focus on improving patients' health and well-being and returning them to their own environments," said Anita Langford, Hopkins Bayview's vice president of continuing care. "For other patients, the Care Center continues to provide traditional long-term care in a warm, homelike environment."

The center is located in the John R. Burton Pavilion. The name change does not affect the university's Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, which also is located in the John R. Burton Pavilion.

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