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The Board of Trustees of Anne Arundel General Health Care Systems, the parent corporation of Anne Arundel Medical Center, recently approved plans for Phase II expansion of its Medical Park on Jennifer Road.Partial construction of the $35 million to $45 million project, which will create a women's and children's center, a diagnostic and treatment facility, and a medical office building, could begin as early as 1991 with completion in 1995, pending approval of funds and permits.The modern inpatient women's and children's center will provide comprehensive obstetric, gynecological and pediatric care offering labor and delivery rooms, single patient rooms, and sophisticated technology and treatment center will feature radiological, cardiac diagnostic and basic laboratory services.

County health officials want adults to know: Measles aren't just forkids.Beginning today, the county is offering free vaccinations to stop an increase in measles cases that can cause serious health problems for adults.This year, officials have confirmed six cases in Carroll County -- all in people in their late teens or early 20s, said Pat Burnett, director of personal health for the Carroll County Health Department.No cases were reported last year, officials said."Each (infected person) had been vaccinated as a child.

When 10-year-old Tauris Johnson arrived at Johns Hopkins Children's Center at 5:52 on the afternoon of Nov. 4, it was obvious to the medical staff that he had virtually no chance of survival.The youth -- who took a bullet to his head as he played football outside his East Baltimore home, the innocent victim of a drive-by shoot-out between rival drug dealers -- had no reflexes or eye motion; a CAT scan confirmed the enormity of the damage to his brain."There was massive damage inside his brain.

It was the anguish in the mothers' eyes that prompted Jean Simons to open the Linwood Children's Center in Ellicott City for autistic youngsters in 1955."

Irish Tourist Board, Aer Lingus plan entertainment Representatives from Aer Lingus - Ireland's national airline - and the Irish Tourist Board will present travelers at Baltimore-Washington International Airport with information and Irish entertainment from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the main terminal. Aer Lingus' thrice-weekly service from BWI to Shannon/Dublin is to begin Sept. 6. The new service, providing nonstop service to the Emerald Isle, will increase to one flight a day by next summer.

Despite assurances to the contrary, the office that monitors conditions in state Department of Juvenile Services facilities is a shadow of its former self, in size and authority. When it reconvenes next month, the General Assembly must restore the presence and the power of the office of the independent juvenile justice monitor by overriding Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s veto of a bill to house it in the attorney general's office. In its scramble to re-create its Office of Children, Youth and Families, whose charter expired this year, the administration said it would keep intact - and autonomous - the monitors' department, the only independent group that is allowed regular access to juvenile facilities.

Jacqueline King never thought that happy stories like hers really happened. Being homeless with three children had made her rather cynical."Being in a situation like this makes it hard to believe in fairy tales," Ms. King said. "It actually makes things look kind of hopeless."Although she says it still seems like a dream, Ms. King and her family will be sent on a special shopping spree Wednesday at the March Mammoth Sale, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Vendors have arranged the shopping spree for the family and are donating desperately needed clothing items.

An article in The Sun on Monday about a proposed children's center reported incorrectly that the Maryland Committee for Children is a tenant of the Brokerage, the complex on Market Place that would house the center.In fact, the committee owns a building at 608 Water St. that is surrounded by and connected to the Brokerage.* The Sun regrets the error.Despite a history of failed projects, Baltimore's Market Place would be an ideal location for a proposed children's museum and center, consultants are telling city officials.

Baltimore's fledgling effort to build a $30 million children's museum downtown has received its first major infusion of private funds -- a $3 million donation from NationsBank.The money will be used to help convert the former Brokerage retail and office center at 34 Market Place to an educational attraction expected to draw 400,000 visitors a year.The museum -- tentatively called the Baltimore Children's Museum -- is a key element in the city's strategy for revitalizing the east side of downtown.