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Construction contract awarded for new HCC nursing, allied health building
Kinsley Construction Company of York, Pa., was recently selected as the builder of Harford Community College's new Nursing and Allied Health Building. Kinsley was selected for the $13.9 million contract after members of the HCC Board of Trustees reviewed...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Students, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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CareFirst commits $125,000 in HCC scholarships
The region’s largest health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has committed $125,000 to Howard Community College for 50 scholarships over the next five years. The announcement came Friday, May 3, as CareFirst administrators and local...
Tags: Howard Community College, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Awards and Prizes
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HCC Awarded Grant by CareFirst
Harford Community College has received a $25,000 grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to support development of an electronic health records system that will bolster training of the institution's nearly 2,200 Nursing and Allied Health students....Tags: Community College of Baltimore County, Warren E Barry, Health and Safety at School, Howard Community College, Colleges and Universities
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Md. hospitals say rate vote means jobs cuts
Maryland hospitals said they will need to cut jobs and patient services after a state panel voted Wednesday to keep hospital rates flat, despite a 2 percent cut in Medicare payments required by federal sequestration. "There are significant job cuts...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare, Obstetrics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Rate-setting commission recommends no increase in hospital charges
The state's hospitals would absorb all of the 2 percent Medicare cuts required by federal sequestration under a proposal released Thursday by the state panel that sets hospital rates. The recommendation by the staff of the Health Services Cost Review...
Tags: Finance, Hospitals and Clinics, Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medicare
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CareFirst proposes 25 percent rate increase under health care reform
Blaming the cost to implement health care reform, the state's largest health insurer has proposed eye-popping rate increases to state regulators for individuals and small businesses. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield wants to raise rates an average of 25...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, Health Care Reform (2009), Government, Judges, Health Insurance Cost
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CareFirst sticker shock
The Obamacare critics were no doubt gleeful this week when CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield proposed average rate increases of 25 percent for its individual HMO customers next year, when it will be required to follow the requirements of the Patient...
Tags: Insurance, Apples, Howard County, Medical Procedures and Tests, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Hospitals concerned about state rate-setting proposal
A state plan to tie medical spending to the growth of the economy is making hospital executives uneasy. Executives support the spirit of the plan proposed by the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which seeks to reduce health spending by...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medicaid, Medicare, General Practitioners
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Dr. Philip J. Ferris, Franklin Square surgery chairman
Dr. Philip J. Ferris, former longtime chairman of the department of surgery at Franklin Square Medical Center, died Nov. 8 of cardiac arrest at his Lutherville home. He was 79.
"He was just a great man. He was down-to-earth and fun, but at the same...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hunting, University of Maryland Medical Center, Dundalk, Surgery
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Insurance co-op to start with $65 million federal loan
A Maryland group led by Howard County health officer Peter Beilenson has received a $65 million loan under federal health reform to start the state's first insurance co-op, a consumer-owned nonprofit that will compete against private insurers to sell...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Consumers, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medicaid, Medicare
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Health care reform: Caring about costs, too
By establishing a health benefit exchange and expanding Medicaid coverage, Maryland is on a path to extend access to affordable health care to hundreds of thousands of individuals, families and small businesses. For our progress to be sustainable,...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Employment, Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, Companies and Corporations
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Whooping cough making a comeback in Md., U.S.
Public health officials are warning adults and adolescents to get booster shots in the wake of an unusually large number of cases of whooping cough this year around the nation and in Maryland.
More than 20,000 cases of the respiratory disease were...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Disease Prevention, Drugs and Medicines, Preventative Medicine, Diphtheria
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