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- The city of Baltimore and 10 hospitals are partnering to provide housing and services for 200 homeless people and families.
- Dr. Kenneth J. Murray, a retired neurosurgeon, died May 3 from respiratory failure at NIH. He was 73.
- Evelyn McCallum, who prepared and served hundreds of thousands of meals to Baltimore City students in more than three decades as a cafeteria worker, has died.
- Atlantic Realty Company has sold the Alameda Marketplace in Baltimore for $18.2 million to a private regional investment group that was not named.
- Baltimore County police have identified the man found dead in a Towson apartment complex as Dennis Joseph Buckley, 47, of the 6900 block of Donachie Road.
- Baltimore County police are investigating an incident in which a person was found on the ground bleeding at a Towson apartment complex Friday, officials said.
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Other Maryland hospitals engage in deals with insiders but sidestep politicians — most of the time
As state lawmakers contemplate reforming how the University of Maryland Medical System handles contracts with insiders, a Baltimore Sun review of other hospitals' disclosures show the practice is not rare. Only Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation dabbled in politics. - A 20-year-old man was arrested at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital early Tuesday on a warrant from Prince George's County.
- Orthopedic surgeon Dr. David S. Hungerford was a pioneer in hip and knee replacements, and worked on humanitarian medical causes.
- The Great Fire of 1904 continues to live on the city's memory.
- One person was treated following a working fire in Overlea Friday afternoon, according to Baltimore County fire officials.
- Patricia Knott Smyth had a major role in creation of the Helix Health System and the subsequent creation of MedStar.
- Nina Harper was a retired AT&T manager and longtime East Baltimore community activist.
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Lea Marie Faraone, a registered nurse who played a vital role in the cystic fibrosis community, dies
Lea Marie Faraone raised money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and advocated and educated thousands through the social media platform Salty Cysters. - Baltimore leaders ranked the city’s 11 hospitals this week for best practices in responding to the opioid crisis.
- An online fundraiser for a Baltimore firefighter who broke his back in a fall while hanging Christmas lights at his home last week, just three days before he was set to go on his honeymoon, had raised more than $12,000 as of Wednesday.
- Maryland hospitals were safer for patients this fall than they were six months ago, according to the latest assessment from the Leapfrog Group.
- Colleagues and loved ones agree the city — and its signature sound — have never been the same since the death of DJ K-Swift, nee Khia Edgerton.
- The author Anne Tyler sets all her books in Baltimore — but always invents the specific locations. Her newest novel, "Clock Dance," which was published Tuesday, evokes Hamilton. We piece together clues from the book and identify 5 real-life places reminiscent of the ones she describes.
- Baltimore officials are expanding a telemedicine program in the Park Heights neighborhood aimed at people older than age 60 that helps monitor their health from home.
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James A. Oakey, former president of Good Samaritan Hospital and Mercy High School board member, dies
James A. Oakey, former president of Good Samaritan Hospital who merged it into the Helix Health System, died June 13 from complications of brain surgery at Gilchrist Hospice in Columbia. The Marriottsvillle resident was 83. - The event will raise money for Deputy James Dunton Jr., whose daughter Jasmine Kennedy was fatally shot by her fiance May 1 at her Parkville home, police say. She was seven months pregnant with her fourth child.
- Police said Eric Maurice Glass, 30, fatally shot his wife, Jasmine Alisha Kennedy, who was also 30, around 9 p.m. Tuesday night. Police said Glass then shot himself in the head but was not severely injured.
- Some 110,000 rest among the hills and vales off a tributary of the Gwynns Falls, among them political leaders, captains of Baltimore industry and an interesting quartet of sports greats.
- Advocate for the disabled veterans worked for Senator Ben Cardin
- From agriculture and manufacturing to military contracting and natural gas production, Maryland's economy is diverse.
- One person was killed and another injured in separate shootings Thursday.
- Dr. Philip H. Moore, a retired internist and rheumatologist and former consultant to the state Disability Determination Services, died Nov. 5 of respiratory failure at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 80.
- Maryland hospitals didn't rank well in a national assessment of safety at health care facilities, though the hospitals say the comparisons are not apples to apples and others charge that such studies can confuse the public.
- A new website, wearthecost.org, will help Maryland patients compare costs of knee replacements, hysterectomies and other procedures and bring more transparency to hospital pricing practices.
- MedStar Health names Dr. Stuart M. Levine as president of Harbor Hospital
- MedStar Health Cancer Network offers less instrusive lumpectomy
- MedStar Health is opening a one-stop-shop orthopaedics center in Timonium
- Home-based primary care, or house calls, have shown to reduce health care spending and provide better outcomes for patients.
- A man who was shot two and a half years ago in Northeast Baltimore has died, police said Wednesday.
- William C. Newman Jr., a longtime auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, who oversaw the Catholic schools and chose the priesthood over a chance to play professional baseball, died Saturday of heart failure at Mercy Ridge retirement community in Timonium. He was 88 years old.
- William Clifford Newman, a Baltimore native who served for nearly 20 years as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Saturday in hospice
- William Clifford Newman, a Baltimore native who served for nearly 20 years as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Saturday in hospice care at the Mercy Ridge Retirement Community in Timonium, the archdiocese said. He was 88.
- Dr. R. Bradley Sack, 81, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died April 24 at his Lutherville home.
- One man was killed and two others wounded in separate shootings in Baltimore early Sunday, police said.
- One man was killed and two men and one woman were wounded in three separate shootings late Saturday in Baltimore, police said.
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- A 58-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and robbed near Good Samaritan Hospital in Northeast Baltimore early Tuesday morning, police said.
- Proposed modifications to MTA bus routes falls short of public transit agency's stated goals
- J. Patrick "Pat" McCurdy III, a quadriplegic who refused to let a wheelchair define who he was and keep him from living an active and productive life, died Aug. 11 from a heart attack at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Chestertown. He was 52.
- Susan S. "Susie" Smithers, a boutique manager and former Glyndon resident, died June 16 from multiple organ failure at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 65.
- It almost feels like 1996 again.
- Three men were injured, one seriously, in separate shootings in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, police said.
- Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Monday she wants to expand her summer jobs program to a record 9,400 young people — but the city needs more businesses and community groups to step forward to provide work and funding.