Hospital Staff

Aileen Riley was selected as Carroll Hospital Center's Associate of the Month for March. A staff member at the hospital for six years, Riley was nominated for her high attention to detail to her work in the food services department. "Aileen is a spectacular team player and true asset to our department. " said Marcea Cotter, director of support services in a release. "She always goes above and beyond what is expected to ensure our team succeeds. " Each month, Carroll Hospital Center recognizes a member of its staff through its Associate WOW Service Awards.

Aileen Riley was selected as Carroll Hospital Center's Associate of the Month for March. A staff member at the hospital for six years, Riley was nominated for her high attention to detail to her work in the food services department. "Aileen is a spectacular team player and true asset to our department. " said Marcea Cotter, director of support services in a release. "She always goes above and beyond what is expected to ensure our team succeeds. " Each month, Carroll Hospital Center recognizes a member of its staff through its Associate WOW Service Awards.

Reader Kayris wrote: "I found out today that my 2-year-old will most likely need eye surgery and an MRI before that. Any suggestions for making it easier for a child so young, and any suggestions to get ME through having to see my child under general anesthesia?" I sent her question to Dr. Michael Crocetti, director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He wrote back some thoughts: "Having surgery or a medical procedure that requires sedation can be scary and very anxiety-provoking for the child and parents," he wrote.

Liberty Tax is offering free tax preparation services for first-time customers only who serve and assist local communities in the Laurel area. The following Appreciation Weeks are scheduled at the two Liberty Tax Service offices in Laurel. March 11 to 17: Hospital Appreciation Week, for nurses, doctors, therapists and all hospital staff. March 18 to 24: Healthy Living Appreciation Week, for all gym staff members, personal trainers, dietitians and recreational centers staff.

WASHINGTON -- Nancy Reagan wore a pink suit and a look of distress as she recalled the attempted assassination of her husband on March 30, 1981.With a bullet in his chest fired by John W. Hinckley Jr., Presiden Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital. The critical nature of his wound initially was kept secret by the doctors and Mrs. Reagan. Both of the Reagans were present at George Washington University yesterday during an emotional ceremony commemorating the event, and the former first lady spoke of the subterfuge.

Local black leaders have been holding meetings with officials of Howard County General Hospital to address what they call mounting racial problems at the Columbia hospital.The meetings, which began about two months ago, have come amid claims of racial tension among hospital staff members at all levels.In more than a dozen recent interviews with The Sun, former and current doctors, nurses and administrators -- black and white -- charge that minority employees consistently are barred from positions of authority, including managerial posts and committee appointments.

After several inspections, Carroll administrators have pronounced the Jones Building at Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville suitable to house an urgently needed long-term drug rehabilitation program for county youth. The five-story, all-brick Jones Building, constructed in 1948, needs new heating and air-conditioning systems, but is structurally sound, Ralph Green, county director of permits and inspections, said during a tour Friday. "It has all new windows throughout, and the exterior brick is in fairly good condition.

In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos at the state's largest psychiatric hospital, the consultant found, is fueled by a few patients who "prey upon patients and staff with relative impunity" after being ordered by courts to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation - sometimes with dubious symptoms.

Paul Warren Pardus spent restless nights with his ailing mother at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and when he believed doctors had failed her, the 50-year-old shot her physician before killing his mother and himself. Pardus was a fixture in the room since last week, after his 84-year-old mother, Jean Davis, was brought there for surgery related to cancer treatment. While speaking to Dr. David B. Cohen around 11 a.m., Pardus pulled a semiautomatic handgun from his waistband, shot Cohen in the abdomen and ran into her hospital room.

When Alice L. Bower went to the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center's emergency room last April, the 32-year-old mother of four complained of abdominal pain that the staff of the Bel Air hospital diagnosed as a benign ovarian cyst, court documents show. Five days later, Bowers died. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in Harford County Circuit Court, a lawyer for Bower's four children contends that she died after receiving an excessive dosage of a powerful pain medication. The medical malpractice suit seeks at least $2 million from Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc., the doctor who oversaw Bower's care and the medical provider that employs the physician.

In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos at the state's largest psychiatric hospital, the consultant found, is fueled by a few patients who "prey upon patients and staff with relative impunity" after being ordered by courts to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation - sometimes with dubious symptoms.

A Baltimore County police officer's weapon discharged as he struggled with a prisoner receiving treatment at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson on Wednesday, police said. The officer was guarding a prisoner arrested in connection with a burglary who was receiving medical treatment in the hospital's emergency room, according to police. Police said an altercation broke out after hospital workers discovered the prisoner was hiding a needle in his clothing and the man grabbed a hospital staff member.

A 65-year-old Baltimore man was infected with hepatitis C by a traveling medical technician at the Baltimore VA Medical Center in 2008, he and his attorney said — making him the first Marylander to come forward in a sweeping investigation into the technician's interactions with thousands of patients in several states. "I'm hopeful I'll be able to continue my busy life, but I'm also worried about the ones I care for," said Linwood Nelson, a Vietnam War veteran from Edmondson Village who cares for a sister with Alzheimer's disease, among others.

State health officials have revised recommendations for hospitals after receiving nearly 130 comments on an initital draft on the issue. In an effort to improve breastfeeding rates The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is working to make hospitals stronger players in promoting the practice. Studies have found breast milk is the best food for infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends babies receive nothing but breast milk for the first six months of life and that breast milk is supplemented with food until the baby is at least one-year-old.

In the mid-1980s when I was a graduate student in England, my parents came to visit and my mother ended up getting a first-hand look at socialized medicine. It was dad and mom's one-and-only trip to Europe -- a very big deal -- and I wanted to show them as much as I could. We crossed the English Channel to France and drove to see the cathedral at Chartres. The first night there, mom slipped and sprained her ankle. By morning, she couldn't walk and was in need of a doctor. We ended up at a hospital where, with no wait at all, she got X-rays and a friendly, highly competent female doctor checked her out and wrapped her leg. As we were leaving, my mother asked where she should pay the bill.

A 21-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his leg sought treatment at Sinai Hospital about 10:30 p.m. Sunday - but refused to tell police where he had been shot. According to Baltimore police, hospital staff alerted police after the man arrived at the hospital, in the 2400 block of W. Belevedere Avenue. Police responded to the hospital to ask the man questions, but he was not being cooperative, said Sgt. Anthony Smith, a police spokesman. Investigators were still trying to figure out details about the shooting late Sunday.

Two days after she suffered cardiac arrest on U.S. 1 and was aided by a Howard County police officer, Janice Divers died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, hospital staff said yesterday. Divers, 58, of Glen Burnie was a passenger on the road in Jessup when she stopped breathing Thursday morning. Pfc. Scott Magee performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and "rescue breathing," bringing her back from cardiac arrest once. Thursday afternoon, she was in fair condition. But Friday she was in critical condition, and she died Saturday, hospital staff said.