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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. -
- Baltimore's Jewish Orthodox community had been fighting for four years to mitigate anti-vaxxers' influence on the community. Now there's added urgency.
- MaryAnn Spinella worked for MCI Corp. in Hunt Valley and in the personnel department of Sinai Hospital’s LifeBridge Health Center.
- LifeBridge Health is lifting its ban on youth visitors under age 14 after the hospital halted minors from visiting after a series of measles cases were reported in the Pikesville area.
- Medical cannabis is used to treat a variety of ailments, such as glaucoma, muscle spasms and lack of appetite, but it is for pain management that many users are finding it to be particularly effective.
- 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.
- 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.
- The hospital system that operates Sinai Hospital in North Baltimore plans to buy Bon Secours Hospital in West Baltimore.
- Ten weeks after a study recommended that the city, state and Pimlico Race Course owner negotiate over the track's uncertain future, the dialogue has become strained and elected officials now say they are battling to prevent the Preakness Stakes from ditching Baltimore.
- The Baltimore Child Abuse Center has joined LifeBridge Health.
- 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.
- Carroll Health Group welcomes new providers banham eckel
- The money left over from the late Kevin Kamenetz's gubernatorial campaign will be used to fund college scholarships, as well as boost programs at Northwest Hospital, the Hippodrome Foundation and the Maryland Zoo.
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- A data breach at LifeBridge Health discovered in March exposed the personal information of 500,000 patients of the health system.
- Mayor seeks to leverage public and private investments made in Park Heights to lure new development in the long-neglected neighborhood.
- The Preakness — Maryland’s largest and splashiest sporting event — will return in 2019 to the faded Baltimore horse track for one more year.
- Dan D’Orazio is CEO of Sage Growth Partners, which helps health care companies find their niches and expand.
- LifeBridge Health patients will be able to sell their medical records in one place on their iPhones thanks to an upgrade in Apple health app.
- Carroll Hospital Senior Vice President of Operations Dwayne Richardson’s role will be overseeing all of the hospital’s service lines — that is, each of the departments such as cardiology, oncology and emergency.
- Robots and other forms of artificial intelligence are making their way into the workforce. They could be your next employee — or your boss.
- Omicron Chi Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. and the We Cancerve Movement Inc. partnered to make 84 Valentine’s Day cards for area children fighting cancer and other illnesses.
- The Havre de Grace City Council passed, unanimously, Ordinance 996 regarding hospital-related changes to the city zoning code Monday, following a public hearing with impassioned remarks on both sides about Upper Chesapeake Health's Vision 2020 plan.
- Union Hospital in Cecil County has signed a letter of intent to become part of LifeBridge Health.
- The We Cancerve Movement Inc., a Maryland-run nonprofit organization, invites youth ages 8 to 18 in Harford and Baltimore counties and Baltimore City to apply for one of five seats open on its all-youth board of advisors.
- From agriculture and manufacturing to military contracting and natural gas production, Maryland's economy is diverse.
- Certified nurse midwife Morgan Walker has joined Carroll Health Group
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- Fisher was recently honored with the Carroll Hospital Foundation Founders Circle Community SPIRIT Award in recognition of his continuing work on behalf of the hospital.
- 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.
- While Maryland and the rest of the U.S. struggle with an epidemic of opioid-related addiction, hospitals are working to reduce opioid use as the first line of defense in pain management.
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- President and CEO of Carroll Hospital Leslie Simmons is getting a promotion: As of July 1, Simmons will become an executive vice president for LifeBridge Health
- If not for the accent, it would be easy to mistake Dr. Jonathan Ringo as a hometown boy because the recently named president and chief operating officer of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore ties are extensive
- Dr. Jonathan Ringo was named president and chief operating officer of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, LifeBridge Health announced Tuesday
- LifeBridge Health, Anne Arundel Health System and a group of private investors are moving forward with plans to acquire Evergreen Health.
- Statewide legislation is being considered in the Maryland General Assembly that would provide some relief for displaced employees of hospitals that close, as is expected to happen with University of Maryland Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace.
- Hospital administrators want to see more cases worked out in the same manner and are trying to push legislation that they say would make it easier for doctors to admit when a procedure or surgery goes wrong without having to testify about it in court later. They argue it would put more compensation in the hands of patients, rather than lawyers, and enable them to come up with a treatment plan for the patient more quickly.
- As doctors face pressure to prescribe fewer opioids and other narcotics that can lead to addiction in some patients they are pushing for alternative ways to treat pain.
- Neurologist Aruna Bollineni, M.D., and certified nurse midwife Faith Underwood have joined Carroll Health Group
- The president of Sinai Hospital, Amy Perry, is stepping down after four years to take an executive position with a New Jersey health company.
- One of the expected benefits from the merger LifeBridge Health and Carroll Hospital, according to hospital officials, was local access to services that had previously been unavailable in Carroll County.
- 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.
- Doctors have used charcoal in emergency rooms for years to treat drug overdoses and poisonings. Some pediatricians even tell parents to keep a bottle in their medicine cabinet in case their kid accidentally ingests toilet bowel cleaner or bug spray. And now the ingredient is becoming more mainstream and touted by some for regular use, including to whiten teeth and zap acne away.
- LifeBridge Health buys SurgiCenter of Baltimore in Owings Mills and the Ellicott City Ambulatory Surgery Center in Howard County
- Mammothons will be held Monday, November 14 at the Center for Breast Health at Carroll Hospital, the Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital, and the Herman and Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Quarry Lake.
- Women are encouraged to get a regular breast cancer screening, a mammogram, to detect the cancer early when it can still be cured. Doing so can put more options on the table for treatments, including less extensive surgery, and a better chance of beating the cancer. Sometimes, though, life can get in the way of scheduling those regular screenings.
- The Maryland Jockey Club is planning to sell part of its Pimlico Race Course property in Baltimore to Sinai Hospital, a deal that comes amid questions about whether horse racing will continue at the site.
- Baltimore County, LifeBridge Health to offer incentives to move near work
