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Maryland's hospitals in the past year provided nearly $1.6 billion in services outside of that traditionally provided in the emergency room, operating room or hospital, according to the Maryland Hospital Association. The hospital association said its members spent 10 percent of their operating expenses on non-traditional services, or community benefits, such chronic disease management programs and free health education programs for the community.

Now 39 and a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Joseph Sakran is on the forefront of a movement among medical professionals growing more vocal about a surge in gun violence in Baltimore, a city where more than 240 people have been shot to death this year, and across the country. His gun control advocacy group is joining forces with another physician organization, and he hopes to launch more in-depth research into shootings and victim outcomes.

To address cancer treatment complications without an emergency visit, Johns Hopkins has joined a short list of hospitals running urgent care centers

Mary Ann Welzant, 78, a nurse who later taught nursing at Towson University, died of cancer Nov. 3 at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.

Officials say the move to hand off work to physician assistants with medical training but no medical degree was born of a need to improve efficiency and reduce health care costs

Jonathon Burger receives hospital's DAISY Award

Just 1 percent of the 16,000 doctors who treat patients in Maryland have signed up to for the state's medical marijuana program, and two of the largest hospital systems in the state have banned their physicians from participating.

It wasn't just Dr. Thomas Smyth's impressive résumé that made Francis X. Kelly, chairman of the board of the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, covet Thomas Smyth to become the president and CEO of the Towson hospital. It was Smyth's intimate knowledge — from patient to practitioner — of the 232-bed acute-care hospital located on 39 acres in the heart of Towson.

A Maryland Transit Administration bus and a car collided in Randallstown Tuesday morning, Baltimore County police said.

Joan McHenry Hoblitzell, a naturalist, accomplished equestrian and volunteer, died Friday from heart failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 82.

The scheduled playtime wouldn't have been part of the equation several years ago for Colton or the rest of the critically ill children at Hopkins' PICU. These days, it's considered an integral part of the children's' recovery.

Fall is in full swing accompanied by the constant infomercials about Medicare options. It's open enrollment for Medicare Advantage plan enrollment and changing between Original Medicare to Advantage plan or back to Original Medicare. It is also time to review your Part D coverage to evaluate which plan is best for you given the ever-changing medication coverage offered by various plans.

Prince George's Hospital Center said Wednesday it is temporarily closing its neonatal intensive care unit and transferring five babies to other hospitals because of a bacterial outbreak

While I love to take care of my octogenarian patients, I am constantly worried about their medications and, like other physicians, spend a considerable amount of time making sure my patients arrange pills in a designated box and have an easy schedule to follow. However, when patients are given a generic version of the same medication they're used to taking, they sometimes choose to avoid it because it looks unfamiliar. This unfortunately leads to hospital admissions, which, in addition to

In just a few years, telemedicine went from a promising, but little-used form of health care thought to be useful mostly in rural areas to one that is growing rapidly as the technology improved, insurance coverage expanded and pressure grew to keep people out of hospitals. Last year, more than 15 million Americans received some kind of virtual medical care, according to the American Telemedicine Association.

Up To Date Laundry, a Baltimore-based company that cleans bed sheets, doctors' scrubs and other linens for many of the area's major health care systems, plans to open a multimillion-dollar, 79,600-square-foot facility in the Hollander Business Park next summer.

Consulting firm EY is partnering with Johns Hopkins Medicine to help make hospitals and other health care organizations safer.

Several Blue Angels met with will visit Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital to visit with young patients as part of Maryland Fleet Week and Air Show this week.

Emergency rooms are struggling to save gunshot victims arriving in worse shape than ever before, with more bullet wounds, and increasingly shot in the head.

Leisa McDaniels named hospital superstar

Carroll Hospital is welcoming a new physician on staff this October. Dr. Darlene Gabeau has joined the teams as the radiation oncology at the William E. Kahlert Regional Cancer Center, a position she said she was drawn to because in both culture and practice, it exemplifies all she loves best in the practice of medicine.

When Westminster resident Laurie O'Banion was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic pancreatic cancer in the emergency room of Carroll Hospital, she was given three to six months to live if she sought treatment, even less time if she chose not to undergo treatment. After initial efforts at treatment yielded no results, doctors switched her to a different drug regimen. Today, O'Banion said her tumors have shown some reduction in size and she is as hopeful as ever that she'll make a full recovery.

Dr. Melvin Yeshnik named physician of month

The state will adopt new policies it hopes will better protect patients at its mental hospitals against sexual assaults as part of a proposed settlement with a former patient who was abused on two separate occasions.

Hospital welcomes new health group providers

The main lobby of Carroll Hospital was filled with new places to sit on Tuesday evening, but the crowd that had packed the place for a soiree chose to stand, the occasional glass of fruit punch of white sangria in hand: This was the artist's reception for the Carroll Hospital Auxiliaries Chair-ity Auction, and the artists who had built and decorated a wide variety of furniture — from foot stools to rocking chairs to Adirondack mutations — were mingling with those bidding on them in a

As Maryland pursues the laudable goals of the new Medicare waiver and controlling the total cost of health care, we must be careful that the effort is designed so as not to disrupt progress in biomedical discovery and innovation.

Maryland's health care cost control efforts are likely to confront the usual foes

The Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act, which helps hospitals work with family caregivers to coordinate care for a patient, became effective in Maryland Saturday. It helps hospitals work with family caregivers to coordinate care for a patient. Here's why it's so important.

Maryland faces a year-end deadline to submit a plan to expand a massive experiment in how it manages health care costs by including doctors, nursing homes and other health care providers.

Quinzell Covington went on a shooting “caper” for the first time in the late 1990s with his cousins and friends. The tough guys who raised him in ways of the

Fall has arrived — and with it the flu season and those persistent reminders from school, work and elsewhere to get vaccinated. But getting children inoculated this year will be a bit more painful. The FluMist nasal spray version of the vaccine popular with needle-adverse kids, is no longer available.

Dr. Sung Eui Kim, an Anne Arundel County obstetrician and gynecologist, died Monday of complications following surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 71.

A jury awarded a Gwynn Oak family $10 million Tuesday saying the University of Maryland Medical System gave their loved one a drug that destroyed his colon and led to his death. The family of Dennis Allen said he died in 2013 after doctors gave him Kayexalate, which is used on people who have too much potassium in their body

Maryland's all-payer model is not only keeping overall costs down, it's improving health outcomes

Harford County has been free – so far – this summer from major health crises based on environmental factors, but the case of two men who died in July in separate incidents, tragedies can be the result of simple, everyday encounters with creatures or the elements.

Maryland's health secretary told lawmakers Tuesday that he's reduced the wait list for people ordered into mental health treatment by the courts.

Dr. Philip D. Zieve, the former chair of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, died of complications of Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Disease Saturday at his Village of Cross Keys home. He was 84.

Advocates, lawmakers convene for first task force meeting on reforms

The future health care choice is a government-run single-payer system or a hugely expensive for-profit oligopoly, says Robert Reich.

Brad Pfeffer named June physician of month Carroll Hospital

By the end of summer, people in and around Mount Airy will have access to a new, one stop shop for their health care needs.

Maryland hospitals launch effort to inform consumers on changing landscape

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center were able to perform a kidney transplant on a patient with no need for dialysis.

As Sharfstein prepares to step down July 1 as president and CEO, a post he's held for 25 years, the hospital is now known as Sheppard Pratt Health System, reflecting an evolution in how mental health is funded and administered nationally and locally.

Dr. Choon Kim, gastroenterology, and Roy Jackson, distribution technician, were recently selected as Carroll Hospital's May Physician of the Month and Associate

Skilled health services provided at home, or home health care, can be an important tool for people who have recently had surgery or have health issues that make