Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital ) is a large general hospital in the United States, built in 1889 and located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been ranked as one of the nation's best hospitals by USNews for more than 20 consecutive years (ranked third for 2014-2015). Johns Hopkins Hospital has had a profound impact on the development of medicine, having achieved the world's first complete sex reassignment surgery, the first neonatal tetralogy of Fallot surgery, the first cardiac bypass, the first isolation of the poliovirus, and the first use of rubber gloves in surgery. Kidney dialysis and cardiopulmonary resuscitation were first started at Johns Hopkins Hospital.