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The board positions Sen. Francis Kelly and his sons held throughout the University of Maryland Medical System helped their insurance business.

The acting CEO of the University of Maryland Medical System said Tuesday former state Sen. Francis X. Kelly and two of his sons are taking voluntary leaves of absence from the boards of six affiliated organizations amid a continuing controversy at the hospital network.

Without objection, the delegates voted to advance Speaker Michael Busch’s sweeping legislation that would reform the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors amid accusations of self-dealing that have rocked the hospital network.

A little over a dozen people gathered in a room at the Carroll County Agriculture Center on a Saturday in late February, finding their seats in plastic folding chairs after grabbing information packets and fliers from two folding tables. The meeting topic? Marijuana. Medical cannabis.

Kaiser Permanente is planning to open a 24-hour medical hub in Timonium.

While she received hundreds of thousands of dollars though a no-bid book deal with the University of Maryland Medical System, then state senator Catherine Pugh sponsored dozens of bills affecting hospitals in Maryland — including several that would have benefited UMMS.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is apologizing for upsetting "the people of Baltimore" with her book deal with the University of Maryland Medical System. While on the hospital network's board, she sold the system 100,000 copies of her "Healthy Holly" books for $500,000.

The University of Maryland Medical System made a $20,000 contribution to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s inaugural committee while she was serving as one of the hospital network’s board members, according to records shared by the committee.

Howard County is partnering with Howard County General Hospital on a program to bring more primary care physicians to the community.

Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch has introduced an amendment that would force all members of the embattled University of Maryland Medical System board of directors to step down by the end of the year. They'd have to reapply to return to their positions.

In light of the questions about contracts with board members at University of Maryland Medical Center, we need to look at why hospital CEOs make so much money.

The $5 billion health system praises doctor who federal authorities say carried out unnecessary stent procedures

The University of Maryland Medical System let us down with its inside wheeling and dealing with board members.

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.

MedStar Health has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations the hospital system paid kickbacks to a cardiology group in Pikesville in exchange for referrals, according to a statement from Robert Hur, the U.S. attorney for Maryland and other federal investigators. 

House Speaker Michael Busch said Wednesday that he will introduce sweeping legislation to reform the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors as accusations of “self-dealing” have rocked the hospital network.

Two more members of the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors have resigned amid intense scrutiny over contracting practices.

State Sen. Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, on Monday called on Mayor Catherine Pugh to return hundreds of thousands of dollars she’s received from the University of Maryland Medical System while she sat on the hospital network’s board of directors.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has amended her financial disclosure filings amid scrutiny over the sale of copies of her children's books to the University of Maryland Medical System, where she is a long-time member of the board of directors.

General Assembly leaders are expressing outrage and calling for reforms and an audit of the University of Maryland Medical System after The Baltimore Sun reported nine members of the system’s board — including Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh — have business deals with the hospital network.

A review by The Baltimore Sun has found nine members of the University of Maryland Medical System’s Board of Directors — including Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh — have side deals with the hospital network that are each worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A pilot program that sent drug users to a stabilization center rather than the emergency room has proved effective in getting people into treatment and is being expanded.

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. David S. Hungerford was a pioneer in hip and knee replacements, and worked on humanitarian medical causes.

Dr. Sandra Butchart headed the pathology departments at, successively, Maryland General Hospital and Franklin Square Hospital.

Idoreyin Montague, a second-year medical resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died in a Christmas Eve car crash in 2014. Her father, the Rev. Evanstein Montague, of North Carolina, is suing the city of Baltimore for negligence for failing to maintain the roadway.

As the population of Howard County has grown, so have the health care resources available to residents.

The hospital system that operates Sinai Hospital in North Baltimore plans to buy Bon Secours Hospital in West Baltimore.

Registered nurse Deborah Hurley, supplemental nursing, was presented with Carroll Hospital's January DAISY Award. A nurse at the hospital since 2006, Hurley

An orthopedic trauma surgeon, Dr. Andrew N. Pollak, has been appointed as chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission, the state panel that regulates hospitals and health care facilities. 

Hospital honors physicians for care Carroll

Registered nurse Caitlin McGrady, medical/surgical unit, was presented with Carroll Hospital's December DAISY Award. A nurse at the hospital since July 2018,

A 26-year-old Baltimore man arrested in the shooting of a University of Maryland School of Medicine employee outside a hospital ambulance bay on Monday had previously been in a relationship with the victim and quickly confessed to the shooting after being arrested, according to court records.

Paramedics, nurses and doctors from across Baltimore are partnering to bring treatment to patients in West Baltimore in a pilot program city officials hope will reduce strains on the city’s fire department and emergency rooms.

There was a shooting at the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore on Monday morning, a spokeswoman for the hospital said.

There are many relevant arguments against the Trump administration’s military transgender ban, and we thought it important that our group weigh in on some of them. For the past 48 years, the Sex and Gender Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital has provided affirming care to transgender individuals.

Connie Allen receives Patient Safety Hero Award Carroll Hospital

The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a hearing to investigate complaints that Johns Hopkins Hospital stymied nurses’ efforts to unionize and to determine whether the institution violated federal labor laws.

Patricia Knott Smyth had a major role in creation of the Helix Health System and the subsequent creation of MedStar.

Becky King presented with Carroll hospital DAISY Award November

The Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Trustees has appointed F. Joseph Warin of the law firm Gibson Dunn to review the Heart Institute at All Children’s Hospital in Florida after a Tampa Bay Times investigation found high injury and death rates among pediatric patients at the center.

A transplant doctor frustrated by the time it take to transport organs is helping devise a new system using drones to zip between hospital roof-tops carrying life-saving cargo.

The Baltimore Child Abuse Center has joined LifeBridge Health.

Three more officials have resigned from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the wake of a year-long investigation by the Tampa Bay Times, according to a statement from Johns Hopkins Medicine on Wednesday. 

Registered nuse Lydia Atwell receives hospital DAISY Award

Sandra Ruby named physician of month at hospital westminster

It’s good to see Carroll Hospital continue to invest in improving its facilities to be more up-to-date and meet the needs of the county's residents.

Baltimore leaders ranked the city’s 11 hospitals this week for best practices in responding to the opioid crisis.

Donna L. Cadenhead-Tynes, a former Bon Secours Hospital telemetry nurse and avid Ravens fan, died Dec. 8 from complications of metastatic endometrial cancer at Howard County General Hospital.

Union Hospital of Cecil County will not join LifeBridge Health, which operates Sinai Hospital and several other medical facilities in the region, they jointly announced Wednesday. 

About 80 people from the community attended a public information session Thursday evening about the plan to close Harford Memorial and build a new medical center around an unoccupied office building off of Route 22 in Aberdeen.