About GBMC
GBMC HealthCare is a private, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a regional hospital in Towson, Maryland, two miles north of Baltimore City. GBMC HealthCare also owns Gilchrist Hospice Care, the largest, not-for-profit hospice organization in the State of Maryland. The organization also includes the GBMC Foundation, which supports the GBMC mission by managing fundraising efforts.
Incorporated in 1960, GBMC HealthCare consolidated the operations of two specialty hospitals located in Baltimore City, The Hospital for Women of Maryland in Baltimore City (“Women’s Hospital”), and Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital (“Presbyterian Hospital”). The services were relocated to serve the growing population in suburban Baltimore County and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center opened its door in 1965 as a regional medical center providing general acute and specific specialized services to the northern portion of Baltimore City, most of Baltimore County, and portions of Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties.
The Hospital for the Women of Maryland in Baltimore City has a novel specialization, opening in 1882 in Bolton Hill as only the second women’s hospital in the country. The Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital had nearly 100 years of excellence in ophthalmology and otolaryngology, originating as a clinic in a Civil War surgeon’s East Baltimore carriage house in 1887.
