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JOHNS HOPKINS

© - Tom Hyland - 10-29-08


Yes, that was a man’s name, and there was an ‘s’ at the end of John. Most people not from Baltimore inadvertently drop the ‘s’ thinking it is wrong.

“Question: Who was Johns Hopkins?
And why the 's'?

Answer: First things first: why the extra "S"?
Because his first name was really a last name.

Johns Hopkins' great-grandmother was Margaret Johns, the daughter of Richard Johns, owner of a 4,000-acre estate in Calvert County, Md. Margaret Johns married Gerard Hopkins in 1700; one of their children was named Johns Hopkins.

The second Johns Hopkins, grandson of the first, was born to Samuel and Hannah Janney Hopkins in 1795 on the family's tobacco plantation in southern Maryland. His formal education ended in 1807, when his parents, devout Quakers, decided on the basis of religious conviction to free their slaves and put Johns and his brother to work in the fields. Johns left home at 17 for Baltimore and a job in business with an uncle; then, at the age of 24, he established his own mercantile house.

He was an important investor in the nation's first major railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, and became a director in 1847 and chairman of its finance committee in 1855.

Hopkins never married; he may have been influenced in planning for his estate by a friend, philanthropist George Peabody, who had founded the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 1857.

In 1867, Hopkins arranged for the incorporation of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and for the appointment of a 12-member board of trustees for each. He died on Christmas Eve 1873, leaving $7 million to be divided equally between the two institutions. It was, at the time, the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history.”

What the above citation does not tell you - is that his Will distinctly kept the two entities Separate. For almost One Hundred Years, various Hopkins’ lawyers tried to Break the Will, but could not! It was obvious that the Testator did NOT want them Merged!

One might ask - what’s the big difference? The University, as both a Teaching one, as well as a Research one, seemed to always operate in the Black - plenty of money: Bequests from Alumni and other Donors, Tuition Fees, and Millions upon Millions of Dollars from NIH and other Federal Government Grants.

The Hospital though, being subject to Bad Debts, inner-city indigents, and Welfare patients, was usually always in the Red. During my first stint working at the University, from 1966-1973, the only area belonging to the Hospital that turned a small ‘profit’ was the Parking Lot!

Now, think about it just a moment, if you were the President of the University, or President of its sister entity, the Hospital, and it was perennially Losing money, what would you do? The problem was simple, they could not just ‘pool’ their money, but the answer evaded them for a long, long time.

While I have no idea what year it occurred, they finally came up with a rather shrewd solution - they formed a “Parent Corporation” and called it “The DOME.” Naturally, I have no inside information, nor any access to any of their Accounting records, but I often wonder HOW did they get away with it?

When I still worked there, several smaller groups had started - a Security Service, and a Janitorial Service - years later, I discovered that these had been merged together, under another umbrella known as Broadway Management, and it was now an entity or sub-corporation (?) under the larger umbrella, The Dome. I wonder, is this fair to the competition? The plot thickens!

Why does any of this matter, you might ask. Because Both of these One Hundred and Thirty-Five-Year-Old Institutions are technically Non-Taxable Charitable Entities - and yet - Johns Hopkins is the Largest Employer in the entire State of Maryland, with the exception only of the State itself!

Just how BIG is Hopkins?

University-wide Directories and Related Resources

The Johns Hopkins Enterprise Directory (JHED)

The JHED lists contact information — including work locations, phone numbers, job titles, email addresses and fax numbers — for about 40,000 students and employees affiliated with The Johns Hopkins Institutions.

Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Carey Business School, School of Education, Whiting School of Engineering, School of Medicine, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), School of Nursing, Peabody Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health.


Besides the Main Hospital and the University, Hopkins sprawl spreads widely over Maryland, as well as other Countries:

Schools Centers Affiliates
The Johns Hopkins University has 10 divisions...

Homewood Campus?
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences?
School of Education?
Whiting School of Engineering
East Baltimore Campus?
School of Medicine?
School of Nursing?
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Downtown Baltimore?
Carey Business School?
The Peabody Institute

Washington, D.C.?
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Laurel, Md.
Applied Physics Laboratory


Other Johns Hopkins Campuses

Bayview Medical Center? - East Baltimore (formerly Baltimore City Hospital).
Bologna Center?- ITALY.
Charles S. Singleton Center at the Villa Spelman?- Near Florence, ITALY.
Columbia Center?- Columbia, MD.
Downtown Center in Baltimore?- Separate from HOMEWOOD.
Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies?- CHINA.
Johns Hopkins Singapore?- CHINA.
Montgomery County Campus?- MD.

Institutes Centers And Affiliates

K-12 Education | Health and Medicine
Natural Sciences, Engineering, Technology
Public Health, Public Policy
Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts

University Facilities, Affiliated Organizations

K-12 Education
Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education
Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE)
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR)
Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Center for the Social Organization of Schools (CSOS)
Center for Summer Learning
Center for Talented Youth, CTY
Center for Technology in Education
National Network of Partnership Schools

Health and Medicine

Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Arthritis Center, Johns Hopkins
Asthma and Allergy Center
Autoimmune Disease Research Center
Autoimmune Skin Diseases Center
Bayview Medical Center
Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
Bioethics Institute
The Breast Center at Johns Hopkins
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Center for Cervical Dysplasia
Center for Clinical Global Health Education
Center for Craniofacial Development and Disorders
Center for Hearing and Balance
Center for Human Nutrition
Center for Immunization Research
Center for Inherited Disease Research
Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
Center for Laryngeal and Voice Disorders
Center for Tuberculosis Research
F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resource Center
Greenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasia
Institute for Cell Engineering (stem cells)
Institute for Computational Medicine
Institute for Vaccine Safety
James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute
Jhpiego (international non-profit health organization affiliated with JHU)
Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center
Johns Hopkins Comprenhensive Transplant Center
Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Center
Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Center
Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis Center

While most of the above facts were copied directly from several J.H. websites, the following was not found there. I had to go to GOOD SAMARITAN’s History to find it:

June 1974

Good Samaritan signs a formal agreement of affiliation with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which allows Hopkins to continue to provide and train physicians in rehabilitation medicine and reconstructive orthopedics. Under the new agreement, community doctors will now be allowed to practice at Good Samaritan.

There may be even more affiliations, but in the interest of time, by now you should ‘get the picture’ - JOHNS HOPKINS IS BIG!

Now, one might think - ‘GEE, that’s impressive, but why is Tom expounding upon this ONE BIG ENTITY?”

Can you even imagine how many Billions upon Billions of Dollars passes through its hands, just about every year? AND TAX-FREE!

Well, my Second stint as an employee at the University was from 1998 to 2006, roughly 8 years. But, when I was about to Retire, their complicated Formula (which was frequently changed upward through the years) to determine one’s Benefit, then came as a rude awakening - your Years of Service Plus your Age had to reach a certain Minimal Number - I think it was 85 then.

Anyway, because my first stint was so long ago, with an “INTERVAL” in between those 6 years did NOT count, so 8 + 65 only totaled 73, not 85 - therefore, my pro-rated, Enormous Pension check each month from this CITADEL of Learning in America is a WHOPPING $182.00 per month!

You might say that Hopkins is SO BIG - that it makes up its own Rules as it goes along - AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!

Kind of ABOVE THE LAW - like CORPORATIONS, perhaps?

Another important thing that even most Marylanders are not familiar with - Is that Maryland is a "Termination at Will' State. this means that in the absence of a CONTRACT, Any Employer can FIRE Any Employee, on Any Day - AT WILL - no reason is even needed, they don't even have to say they didn't like your hairstyle - NO REASON NEEDED! And it is LEGAL!

© - TKH

LINKS:
http://www.goodsam-md.org/body.cfm?id=36
http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/schools_centers_affiliates/institutes_centers_and_affiliates/
http://web.jhu.edu/villa_spelman/
http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/search/directories/
http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/search/search_hopkins_a_to_z/
http://education.jhu.edu/