Creating Conversations to Support the Baltimore Community

Dear Colleagues, 

As we reflect on the events in Baltimore over the last week, we are encouraged by the support of our Johns Hopkins Medicine family, as well as by the perseverance and compassion of so many people in our communities in Baltimore City. We know that many of you have traveled to work during curfew hours and may have encountered difficulties, yet you continue to provide the very best care to our patients and their families. For this, we are immensely proud and grateful.

We also want you to know that our thoughts and hearts are with you and our city as we strive toward remedying not only the pain and frustration of the present but the longstanding systemic inequities that so many in our community face. On Friday, we brought together faculty, staff and student leaders from across the School of Medicine, and had a substantive discussion. We talked about the need to capture your thoughts and concerns to help determine a thoughtful and deliberate way forward.

To better understand what everyone at Johns Hopkins Medicine is going through, each department will hold meetings with faculty members, staff members and trainees to listen and learn. This will aid us as we formulate thoughts about what each department might do, what Johns Hopkins Medicine as a whole might do and what the city might do to respond to this crisis.

We know that together we can emerge from this even stronger, and we aim to harness your ideas, energy and enthusiasm to partner with community and business leaders to make a difference.​

As an institution, we have been an integral part of Baltimore City since our inception, and we know better than anyone the character of our people—people like you and so many of your colleagues, neighbors and family members. It is in times like these that the true essence of a place is revealed. We want to thank you for your continued support of each other and our great city.

Sincerely,
 
Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ronald R. Peterson
President
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine