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Mechanics promise to find good home for station wagon, unless we buy it back first
We had planned to keep our beloved 1997 station wagon. Then something happened. On the way home from picking up a small, new SUV, its air conditioning stopped. Its temperature soared and the needle on its temperature gauge flew past "H." The towing...Tags: Lacrosse, SUVs and Crossovers
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High school graduates encouraged to pursue occupational therapy [letter]
Editor: As summer approaches, many high school students are getting ready to graduate and head off to colleges across the nation. As a soon to graduate college student, who attended our own Fallston High School, I would like to suggest a major that is...Tags: High Schools, Students, Mental Health, Stroke, Teaching and Learning
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Mom uses her dogs to bring joy to the lives of others [Commentary]
To say that my mom is into dogs, boxers specifically, would be an understatement. And while she's been successful in breeding her dogs and promoting the breed, it's her non-boxer work that makes me most proud of her. For the last 12 years, my mom has...Tags: Timonium, Germany, Mother's Day, Stroke, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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State's health workers deserve protection from violence
Workplace violence is a serious occupational hazard in hospitals and other health care facilities, a fact that has escaped an unsuspecting public. Nationally, nursing assistants employed by nursing homes have the highest incidence of workplace assault...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Social Sciences, Medical Specialization, Culture, Memorial Day
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New focus on laws that make adult children responsible for a parent's care bills
John Pittas' mother spent six months in a Pennsylvania facility recovering after an auto accident, then moved to Greece to be with her other children. Left behind: $93,000 in unpaid care bills. The facility sued to collect — from John Pittas....
Tags: Schnecksville, Allentown, Conservation, Bankruptcy, Medical Specialization
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Oak Crest promotes Bel Air's John Lurz to continuing care administrator
John Lurz of Bel Air has been promoted continuing care administrator Oak Crest retirement community. Previously, Lurz served as the assisted living manager at the Erickson Living community in northeast Baltimore County. Lurz brings 15 years of health...Tags: Government Health Care, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), Baltimore County
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Fire damages Kalmia nursing home; sheriff dies at hospital
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, March 28, 1963: The Harford Convalescing Home in Kalmia suffered a blaze that caused approximately $10,000 in damage 50 years ago this week. Twenty-six patients had to be evacuated to homes on the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Safeway Inc., Fires, Harford County
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Bill to boost health care worker safety withdrawn
Legislation to strengthen violence prevention standards at health care facilities across the state has been withdrawn in the Senate — ending its chances for passage in Annapolis this session. Sen. Katherine Klausmeier, a Baltimore County...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Labor Legislation, Long Term Care, Medical Procedures and Tests, Annapolis
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The greatest and most immediate threat to humanity is the rapid emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria
On March 13th you published a letter written by reader Lois Raimondi Munchel titled "Stop the spread of deadly bacteria in nursing homes." The letter was timely. It should send alarm bells ringing not only through the hallways of our nursing homes but...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Chemical Industry, Long Term Care, National Institutes of Health, Medical Specialization
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Ernest B. Crofoot, labor organizer
Ernest B. Crofoot, a former labor organizer who later headed Council 67 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, died Friday of complications from cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 88.
"Ernie was one hell of a trade...Tags: Garrett County, World War II (1939-1945), Unions, United Auto Workers, AFSCME
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Nightmare bacteria
Federal health officials warned this week that the nation's hospitals and nursing homes are increasingly at risk from deadly new strains of drug-resistant bacteria that can't be treated with even the strongest antibiotics. So far, the infections have been...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, High Blood Pressure, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Stopping the spread of deadly bacteria in nursing homes
In 2011, I spent six months in hospitals and nursing homes recovering from a bacterial infection called C-Difficile that I caught after surgery ("Nightmare bacteria," March 8). It is easily passed from patient to patient. While in the nursing homes I...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Organizations, Long Term Care, National Institutes of Health, Medical Specialization
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