university of maryland medical center
- Former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker is joining the board of the troubled University of Maryland Medical System.
- The city of Baltimore and 10 hospitals are partnering to provide housing and services for 200 homeless people and families.
- Three of the four University of Maryland Medical System board members invited to return to the board after taking leaves of absence have agreed to return.
- Richard Burt, a retired hospital accountant and lacrosse coach, died of a digestive condition June 12 at his Stoneleigh home in Towson, Maryland. He was 87.
- Some in Maryland, including Gov. Larry Hogan, wonder what role Mark Wasserman played in the self-dealing scandal at UMMS, given his usual role there.
- 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.
- Gov. Larry Hogan and influential Democratic lawmakers are reacting with outrage to the latest revelations of self-dealing and no-bid contracting at UMMS.
- A contractor's review of board members' contracts at the University of Maryland Medical System found self-dealing and executives acting without board approval.
- The University of Maryland Medical Center has dropped a request to boost revenues from patients as the medical system faces scrutiny over its spending.
- 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.
- A review of allegations of self-dealing at the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors has revealed more no-bid and insider contracting.
- When Baltimore County Police officers stopped Richard Barnes for traffic-related violations in 1995, he told them he too was a police officer.
- A hospital security guard has been charged with impersonating a police officer and raping a Baltimore woman
- Dr. Robert E. Trattner, a retired psychiatrist, died May 23 of pneumonia at his Roland Park Place home. He was 98.
- 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.
- The Stolers have used their fortune from their auto business to donate tens of millions of dollars to help local hospitals and other charities.
- 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
- Prior to 2015, Baltimore Police officers would never medically intervene. Now, it's common for them to pack a wound or perform CPR.
-
- A team of state auditors has begun a forensic audit of the University of Maryland Medical System, as mandated by state lawmakers in the wake of a scandal.
- As with the University of Maryland Medical System board, members of UMMS affiliates' boards hold contracts with hospitals they oversee.
- Rodney Orange Jr., managing director of the Arena Players who was credited with helping to save the theater company, died of heart disease April 22.
- A UMMS board member says not all should be removed, at least not immediately.
- The Greater Baltimore Committee recognized Dr. Thomas Scalea and Donald Mohler with its top awards Monday night at the business group’s annual meeting.
- Mayor Catherine Pugh's resignation isn't the end of the contracting scandal revealed by The Sun. The University of Maryland Medical System, among others, still face a reckoning.
- Judy Western, a social worker who helped people who were adopted locate their birth families, died of a heart attack Sunday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Inner Harbor resident was 78.
- Local Lions Clubs, 16 in Carroll County, are taking part in Lions Club International’s plans to improve our world in five key areas: diabetes, vision, hunger, the environment and childhood cancer.
- 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.
- 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.
- The job training nonprofit tied to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh that federal investigators raided Thursday has been run by an executive director who was convicted of stealing more than $850,000 years ago.
- Dr. Shawki Malek, a native of Syria, came to the United States in 1969 and practiced medicine in Towson for four decades.
- Officials say two young women were injured and six people were displaced after a fire started at a Baltimore County apartment complex Thursday morning.
- Michael E. Busch, a gregarious former coach and high school teacher who became the longest-serving House of Delegates speaker in Maryland history, has died after a short bout with pneumonia. He was 72.
- 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.
- While acting Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said he will serve as a “placeholder” and does not plan to run for mayor in 2020, the transition of power has not always been so peaceful.
- 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.
- Health provider Kaiser Permanente paid Mayor Catherine Pugh more than $100,000 for about 20,000 copies of her “Healthy Holly” children’s books during a period in which the company was seeking a lucrative contract to provide health benefits to city employees.
- Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch is in the hospital with pneumonia and is expected to be absent during the crucial final days of the General Assembly session. Busch missed most of last week in the House of Delegates, presiding over the chamber only on the first day of that week
- The independent consulting firm hired to untangle the ethical knots caused by insider contracts between the University of Maryland Medical System and several of its board members is scheduled to begin its work on Tuesday.
- Nicholas William Dolly, of New Windsor, is being held without bail on charges of second-degree murder and assault, after injuries he allegedly inflicted during an assault led to the death of Teresa Drury.
- Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh will take a leave of absence, engulfed by a scandal over hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for self-published “Healthy Holly” children’s books.
- New research by Johns Hopkins Medicine could help improve the care of pregnant women in prison.
- Retired First National bank worker Mary Baker, who was active at St. Ignatius Parish in Hickory, died March 27.
- 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.
- Mayor Catherine Pugh's apology for her Healthy Holly deal is appreciated but doesn't answer all the questions to which the public deserves answers.
- Mayor Catherine Pugh and President Donald J. Trump have one thing in common - they can't be trusted.
- A man shot Monday night in Southwest Baltimore has died, and another man who was shot more than 15 years ago died Saturday as a result of his injuries, according to the Baltimore Police Department.
- A retired public corruption investigator has filed a complaint with his former state agency against Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, alleging she perjured herself by not reporting her Healthy Holly company in annual ethics disclosure forms when she was a state senator.
- 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.
- In the early stages of her re-election bid, Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has come under fire for revelations that while she sat on the board of the University of Maryland Medical System, the organization paid her $500,000 for children’s books she authored.