CMS certification 213301

Kennedy Krieger Institute

707 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205

Childrens Emergency services

This page brings together federal quality data for this hospital: its CMS star rating, patient survey results, emergency department times, and death, complication, infection and readmission rates, each compared with the national rate. Everything here comes from CMS and NPPES, the federal sources themselves - not from us.

CMS overall rating Not rated Data are shown only for hospitals that participate in the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) programs.

Would definitely recommend No survey results published

Patient survey rating Not rated HCAHPS patient survey

Compared with the nation Too few cases for CMS to compare

What patients said

Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.

Data are shown only for hospitals that participate in the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) programs.

Not reported for this hospital

CMS had too few cases here to publish results for deaths, complications, infections caught in the hospital, readmissions and return visits. That is common at small, rural and specialty hospitals, and says nothing either way about quality.

Clinicians registered at this address

859 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry, plus 34 residents and trainees. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.

Specialty	Clinicians
Speech-Language Pathologist	153
Clinical	118
Occupational Therapist	106
Physical Therapist	104
Social Worker	68
Psychologist	61
Pediatrics	40
Clinical Child & Adolescent	23
Physical Therapy Assistant	17
Clinical Neuropsychologist	16
Behavior Analyst	13
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities	10

First 12 alphabetically

Aaron Julian Hauptman, MD Psychiatry Aaron M Sawyer, PHD Clinical Abena N Brown-Elhillali, PHD Clinical Abigail Ernharth Speech-Language Pathologist Abigail Lawson Behavior Analyst Abigail Wilcox, OTDOTRL Occupational Therapist Abigayle Martel, MAEDM Clinical Child & Adolescent Adela Ernestina Kellogg, RPT Physical Therapist Adrian James White, LGSW Social Worker Adrianna Amari, PHD Cognitive & Behavioral Adrianna Leith Speech-Language Pathologist Aerial Sheltry, PSYD Clinical Child & Adolescent

Money from drug and device companies

Drug and device makers have to report what they pay teaching hospitals to CMS's Open Payments program. At many teaching hospitals most of it is research funding, or royalties for inventions the hospital licensed to a company. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.

2022 total $1,200 general $0 · research $1,200

All years, 2020–2022 $173,659 18 reported payments

2020 $162,582
2021 $9,877
2022 $1,200

General payments Research payments

Amounts are as the paying companies reported them to CMS; Open Payments data retrieved 13 Sep 2026.

How to read this page

Everything here is published by CMS on Care Compare. We arrange it and explain it; the star ratings and the better / worse verdicts are CMS's, not ours.
“No different” is the most common result on most measures at most hospitals. CMS only calls a result better or worse when the difference from the national rate is statistically clear.
Death, complication and readmission rates are adjusted by CMS for how sick patients were, so hospitals that treat sicker patients can be compared fairly.
Infection results are ratios: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one, below 1.0 is fewer.
These are hospital-wide results. They do not rate an individual doctor, nurse or department, and they are not medical advice.

CMS Care Compare data retrieved 4 Oct 2026, refreshed weekly. Where this data comes from and how we handle it · Report an error

Common questions about Kennedy Krieger Institute

Does Kennedy Krieger Institute have an emergency room?

Yes. CMS lists emergency services at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Does Kennedy Krieger Institute receive money from drug and device companies?

Drug and device makers reported $1,200 in payments to Kennedy Krieger Institute for 2022, most of it research funding, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.