NEWS
By Deborah A. Dramby | June 3, 2007
If you haven't visited Carroll Hospital Center recently, you might want to know that the emergency department has relocated toward the front of the hospital, saving you the drive around the parking lot. Three years ago the hospital underwent an $80 million renovation, during which the space formerly occupied by the emergency department was transformed into an award-winning outpatient center. The ED doubled in size, and added televisions to every room in the 30,000-square-foot space. A five-story tower was built with the latest medical technology and efficient layouts.
NEWS
By Jackie Powder | June 23, 1999
After caring for patients in cramped quarters for years, North Arundel Hospital has a new $8.5 million emergency department with twice the number of beds and new testing equipment to treat a patient caseload that has been growing steadily for more than a decade.The 36-bed facility at the Glen Burnie hospital has a computerized tomography (CT) scanner for specialized X-rays, a decontamination room and a spacious waiting room decorated in peach and turquoise.Susan Ward, the hospital vice president who oversaw the two-year project, said North Arundel originally planned to expand its old emergency room but opted to build a 28,000-square-foot facility instead.
BUSINESS
By M. William Salganik | March 27, 1999
HealthSouth Corp., the Birmingham, Ala., company that operates more than 1,800 outpatient rehabilitation and surgery centers nationally, will manage the rehabilitation programs at Sinai Hospital and Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center, Sinai and Levindale announced yesterday.Sinai's president, Neil Meltzer, said the deal was "not an outsourcing, but more of a partnership."He said managed care insurers like to contract for rehabilitation with large operators such as HealthSouth, so the new arrangement should bring Sinai more patients.
FEATURES
By Stephanie Shapiro | January 17, 1998
When NBC agreed this week to pay $13 million per episode of "ER," Dr. David Meyers, chief of emergency medicine at north Baltimore's Sinai Hospital, had to chuckle: Sinai's brand-new, state-of-the-art emergency department cost $16 million to build -- a mere $3 million more than its fictional counterpart's weekly fee.With $13 million, "you could buy an ED," Meyers says. "It's an incredible amount of money."For the typical citizen, Warner Bros.' astronomical asking price for the rights to air "ER" may be one more ho-hum statistic in a universe where Hollywood stars and sports figures collectively earn enough to pay off the national debt.
BUSINESS
By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | December 17, 1998
Having outgrown their downtown Annapolis building, officials at Anne Arundel Medical Center broke ground yesterday on a $65 million hospital in Parole to be completed in 2001.The new hospital will feature an expanded emergency room, a critical-care unit double the size of its current one and several design features that will give patients and family members extra comfort, including courtyards for short walks and comfortable chairs."It's a way to help us serve an ever-increasing market," said Mary Lou Baker, AAMC spokeswoman.
NEWS
By KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE | January 15, 1998
PHILADELPHIA - It's just before 7 a.m., and the changing of the guard is beginning at Episcopal Hospital's Emergency Department.Maddie McKenna, the triage nurse, and Jo Smith, the patient assets representative, take their places in adjoining offices within shouting distance of the nursing station, the department's nerve center.They will be the first people most patients see this day, once they make it past the locked door and uniformed guard.McKenna will decide how sick patients are and how quickly they will be seen.
NEWS
August 24, 1998
Parking czar must find spaces for downtown hotelWhy has the city created the position of parking coordinator when it allows a hotel to be built at 300 E. Pratt Street with only 200 parking spaces ("Drivers seek out shrinking car space," Aug. 13)?Will the new parking czar's job be to sell us the idea that the city is working on our behalf, when the results will be worse than the current situation?Where will the 200-plus cars currently using the lot on the property park? Where will guests in the 600 rooms park?
BUSINESS
By M. William Salganik | December 7, 1997
A little Nordstrom. A little Disney. A little Mayo Clinic.In designing its glitzy new emergency room, Sinai Hospital is "trying to marry sophisticated clinical care with an exaggerated sense of caring for the whole family," says Warren A. Green, Sinai's president and chief executive officer.The $16 million emergency department, which will begin treating patients Dec. 16, will offer valet parking, private waiting rooms and a concierge, who can arrange baby-sitting or dog-walking for harried families (and who can be reached by videophone)
BUSINESS
By Mark Guidera | August 14, 1996
Suddenly, hospitals throughout Baltimore are putting up big money to heal an old wound: Their antiquated and in some cases, hopelessly cramped, emergency rooms.And Gloria Barlow, clinical manager for Maryland General Hospital's emergency department, couldn't be happier.The ER in which she has worked for 29 years is a throwback to another time.To get to her cubbyhole of an office in the ER, Barlow must pass through another tiny office where emergency room patients are evaluated. Outside, patients lie on gurneys in a hallway.
NEWS
By Jackie Powder | March 18, 1996
Patients who are treated at Carroll County General Hospital's emergency room can expect more attention from doctors and a greater emphasis on follow-up care, now that the emergency department is under the management of a new physician group, hospital officials say.Emergency Medical Associates, a Rockville-based physician group, assumed leadership of the hospital's emergency department a month ago, replacing Professional Emergency Physicians, the hospital's provider...