hospitals and clinics
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Former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker is joining the board of the troubled University of Maryland Medical System.
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The family of Zubida Byrom was awarded a record $229.6 million, which could help the brain-damaged child, but isn't likely to mean any more changes.
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Non-traditional housing should soon provide some relief to Baltimore's homeless population.
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The city of Baltimore and 10 hospitals are partnering to provide housing and services for 200 homeless people and families.
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For police officers and doctors alike, telling family members a loved one died is part of the job.
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Candace Wilson and Abdel Sawan receive Carroll hospital honors
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Former state Sen. Francis X. Kelly resigned from the University of Maryland Medical System Board of Directors Friday, days after he had been asked to return.
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Lifebridge Health CEO Neil Meltzer was honored Wednesday as the 2019 William Donald Schaefer Industrialist of the Year by the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
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Maryland's Opportunity Zone task force recently met at the Opera House in Havre de Grace and heard from elected and appointed officials.
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A contractor's review of board members' contracts at the University of Maryland Medical System found self-dealing and executives acting without board approval.
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The University of Maryland Medical Center has dropped a request to boost revenues from patients as the medical system faces scrutiny over its spending.
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A former University of Maryland Medical System board member says he's seen for the first time a system letter urging nursing facilities to buy his software.
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Here's who you need to know among the UMMS executives and board members who have left, stepped into new roles or remain in key positions.
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The University of Maryland Medical System resignations and retirements follow an investigation into controversial deals worth millions of dollars.
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The University of Maryland Medical System, under fire for lucrative contracts given to its board members, appears to have had the extra money to pay. A
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UMMS is probably not the only Baltimore area hospital board with corruption problems.
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Several other countries have been far more successful than the U.S. in controlling health care spending while preserving private insurance. Here's how.
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A nurse and team leader in the Carroll Hospital cardiovascular lab, Ashley Keating is known among her colleagues for having a calm demeanor in emergencies.
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This mobile dental clinic was made possible thanks to a multi-year, fundraising campaign that earned support from major foundations, churches and individual
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The CEO of the troubled University of Maryland Capital Region Health plans to leave her post after three years.
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On Maryland's Eastern Shore, a local hospital is downsized — and residents are outraged at UMMS.
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The acting chief executive of UMMS went to Annapolis Thursday and pledged to make “significant changes” to senior staff.
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Johns Hopkins is under scrutiny once again for taking the most financially-strapped patients to court over unpaid medical debt.
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center and St. Joseph Medical Center both received A grades from the Leapfrog Group.
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The decision by Johns Hopkins to sue low income people for unpaid hospital bills shows the need for Medicare for All.
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The board of the University of Maryland Medical system and other hospitals are rubber stamps for executives.
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Leslie Simmons will give the commencement address for Carroll Community College. Marta Cruz-Alicea will give the student response.
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John Hopkins Hospital has filed more than 2,400 lawsuits in Maryland courts since 2009, seeking to collect medical debt from its patients, many low income.
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As with the University of Maryland Medical System board, members of UMMS affiliates' boards hold contracts with hospitals they oversee.
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One of the problems with the University of Maryland Medical System board, which is being criticized for contracts with board members, is that it is too big.
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Justice Department policy since 2015 has been to not just prosecute corporations for misdeeds but also officials, employees and boards members. UMMS' chief compliance officer gave board members a presentation on this just before The Sun revealed members had contracts with UMMS hospital
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Carroll Hospital has hosted many different public seminars and events to discuss various aspects of healthy aging, but the May 20 seminar entitled “Aging with Grace: A Discussion of Health & Home Considerations” might be a first — and in more ways than one.
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After allegations of self-dealing rocked the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan says he wants to “clean house” and will refuse to reappoint most — and possibly all — of the current board members.
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The Partnership for America's Health Care Future is a front representing major insurance companies, big Pharma and private hospitals who are part of a major industry effort to kill the Medicare for All movement.
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Nurses receive hospital's DAISY Award elizabeth long andrea groslinger
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The first-ever organ delivered by drone was transplanted into a patient with kidney failure at the University of Maryland Medical Center, capping more than three years of work to show unmanned aircraft can be safely transport life-saving organs and tissue.
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Robert A. Chrencik resigned Friday as president and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical System amid the controversy surrounding accusations that UMMS had engaged in self-dealing and no-bid contracting.
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Despite the criticism the University of Maryland Medical System is getting over contracts to board members, it is still a huge benefit to the city.
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Polypharmacy is a term referring to a person taking five or more medications at once, a state most common, though not exclusive to older adults, according to Dr. Nicole Cimino-Fiallos, director of the Geriatric Acute Care Suite in the Carroll Hospital emergency department.
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Certified Physician Assistant Kevin Walsh has been named Carroll Hospital's Advanced Practice Provider of the Year.
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The Greater Baltimore Committee, a group of influential business leaders, issued a call Friday for Mayor Catherine Pugh to resign, saying she no longer had "public trust or moral authority."
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The University of Maryland Medical System needs to ensure its board of directors is operating without waste and corruption if it wants to ensure good medical care.
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Though the University of Maryland Medical System's board members are appointed by the governor and the institution receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year, state law allows the health system to largely operate in secrecy, its board meetings and documents kept private.
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Dr. G. Edward Reahl, who had been chief of orthopedic surgery at Mercy Medical Center for nearly three decades, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his Guilford home. He was 87.
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The Maryland Senate has unanimously approved legislation outlawing self-dealing on the University of Maryland Medical System's board of directors, a day after the House of Delegates passed a similar measure. Lawmakers now must work out minor differences between the bills.
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People should continue to donate to the University of Maryland Medical System despite problems with its board because drops in charitable giving could hurt medical care to patients.
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When it comes to curing what ails our health care system, including the cost of medicines, some in the Maryland legislature are misdiagnosing the problem and prescribing the wrong solution.
