Maryland General Hospital

Services for Sharon Ann Andrews will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier Church, 13717 Cuba Road in Hunt Valley. Mrs. Andrews, who was 61 and lived in Monkton, died in an Oct. 11 boating accident on the Sassafras River near the Betterton area of Kent County. Born Sharon Ann Thompson in Baltimore and raised in Perry Hall, she was a graduate of Overlea High School and earned a diploma at the Maryland General Hospital Nursing School in 1967. She was an obstetrical nurse at Maryland General Hospital and then became a Baltimore Health Department public health nurse.

Acquisitions Phillips Edison & Co., a retail real estate management and development company, purchased Powell Villa, a community shopping center in Portland, Ore. Awards Imre Communications was named Best in Show in the Public Relations Society of America's Best in Maryland competition for its work for Travelers Insurance. Community Health Charities presented Donald P. McPherson III, an attorney with DLA Piper Rudnick, with the 2007 Joseph Forni Award, and Jan Thompson, president of the Maryland chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, was named Volunteer of the Year.

Dr. Michael Kevin Finegan, a retired Maryland General Hospital surgeon who also worked for the Social Security Administration, died of multiple myeloma Wednesday at the Brightwood Center in Lutherville. The Roland Park resident was 81. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he studied at boarding school, Newbridge College in Kildare, where he entertained thoughts of playing rugby professionally. He attended University College Dublin and received his medical education at the National University of Ireland, where he was a rugby team captain.

Mary S. Tawney, a homemaker and longtime hospital volunteer, died Monday of an aneurysm at Sinai Hospital. The North Baltimore resident was 85. Mary Sharp was born and raised in Philadelphia. She graduated in 1940 from Abington High School in Abington, Pa., and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1944. She managed the gift shop for many years at Maryland General Hospital and later volunteered in the blood testing unit at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and the Red Cross.

William B. Greynolds, 79, Methodist ministerThe Rev. William B. Greynolds, retired pastor of Epworth Chapel United Methodist Church, died Jan. 30 of a heart attack at home in Owings Mills. He was 79.Mr. Greynolds, who had been pastor of Epworth Chapel United Methodist Church from 1979 to 1981, had also been pastor of churches in Timonium, Glen Burnie, Severn and Mount Rainier.After retiring in 1983, he was personnel director for CuTronics Inc., a high-tech government contractor in Timonium, for several years.

An autopsy will be performed on an unidentified man who died yesterday after being shot with two lead-filled "beanbag" shotgun rounds while threatening police with two syringes in the living room of a vacant West Baltimore rowhouse, according to a department spokesman.Sgt. Scott Rowe said the man, in his 40s, died at Maryland General Hospital, and that the incident has been ruled an "in-custody death." Rowe said police expected the autopsy to reveal whether the man died from being shot or some other cause.

Upper Chesapeake Health System and Mercy Medical Center announced yesterday that Upper Chesapeake's physician group will be merged into Maryland Personal Physicians Inc. (MPPI). Mercy owns a majority of MPPI.Mercy, in downtown Baltimore, and Upper Chesapeake, which owns the two hospitals in Harford County, also said they are merging their operations that manage physician practices.Lyle Sheldon, president and chief executive officer of Upper Chesapeake, said the deals will allow "a centralized strategy" and shared resources to attract other physicians, and will make MPPI "more competitive in managed care contracting."

Mary B. Mitchell, a volunteer at Maryland General Hospital, died of a stroke March 17 in Sarasota, Fla., where she lived since 1994. She was 75 and formerly lived in Roland Park and Guilford.She graduated from Maryland General Hospital School of Nursing in 1943 and worked briefly at the old Keswick Home for Incurables and as a private duty nurse.She later became president of Maryland General's Women's Auxiliary and during her tenure opened a coffee shop in the North Howard Street hospital.

They didn't use electric buffers or polishers at Bob's Auto Cleaning. And those fancy car carpet shampoo machines never really appealed to Robert Duren.At Bob Duren's shop, they cleaned cars the old-fashioned way: with human buffers and Turtle Wax; with a mound of foam shampoo and a trained professional with a bristle brush; with elbow grease and sweat.And Mr. Duren, 81, who died Monday at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center from injuries he received in a car accident in November, was usually the one who applied the most manpower.

The state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene certified its first three Medicaid "managed care organizations" yesterday. Two health maintenance organizations that have been serving Medicaid recipients, FreeState and Prudential, were approved, along with a new group called Maryland Physicians Care, a joint venture involving four smaller hospitals.Maryland Physicians Care thus becomes the first hospital-sponsored MCO, although other hospitals, including Johns Hopkins, have begun the application process.

Dr. Davood Badie, a Harford County pediatrician, died Monday at his Bel Air home from complications of cardiovascular disease and Parkinson's disease. He was 79. Dr. Badie, the son of a farm owner, was born and raised in Mazandaran Province, Iran. He earned his medical degree from the University of Tehran in 1955 and moved to England five years later. In 1961, he immigrated to Baltimore. Dr. Badie completed a rotating internship at Maryland General Hospital in 1962 and a residency in pediatrics at what is now the University of Maryland Medical Center two years later.

Grace Schmidt Pierpont, a community volunteer active in hospital work, died in her sleep Monday at her daughter's home in Haemelschenburg, Germany. She was 90 and had lived in Homeland. Born Grace Schmidt in Owings Mills, she was a 1936 Franklin High School graduate and earned a nursing degree in 1941. A year later, she married Ross Z. Pierpont, a surgeon who was active in Republican politics. Mrs. Pierpont worked as a nurse for a decade until her daughter was born in 1951. She then did volunteer work for Roland Park Country School, Grace United Methodist Church, the Women's Auxiliary of Maryland General Hospital, the Baltimore Opera Guild, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Golfer's Charitable Association, where she was chairwoman for many years.

Three people were shot yesterday in two separate incidents in West Baltimore, police said. About 7:20 p.m., a woman, 19, and a man in the 2100 block of Division St. in Druid Heights neighborhood when an unknown assailant shot the woman in the leg and the man in the shoulder, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The woman was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was reported in good condition. The man was treated at Maryland General Hospital. The other shooting was reported at 1:10 p.m. in Harlem Park, Moses said.

On May 20, 2008 HAZEL LORRAINE BERRYMAN of Joppatowne, MD. Loving sister of the late Mildred Price. Also survived by niece Linda Rowell and cousin Ethel Byrnes. Services will be held at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 12 noon. Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. Friends may call at the funeral home in Abingdon on Saturday from 11 to 12 noon prior to the service. Those who desire may contribute to Maryland General Hospital at University of Maryland Medical System Foundations, 110 S. Paca St., Baltimore, MD 21201.

Dr. Alfred Anthony Filar, a retired ophthalmologist and early retina specialist who found the time to make house calls during a lengthy career in eye care, died in his sleep of congestive heart failure April 13 at his Glen Arm home. He was 77. The Baltimore native was raised above his parents' florist shop at Eastern Avenue and Ann Street. As a young man he delivered floral arrangements by streetcar. He was a 1949 graduate of Polytechnic Institute, where he ran track, swam and played football.

In the summer of 2004, I was so excited about moving back to my beloved Baltimore. I had been living in the suburbs of Philadelphia for more than 23 years. I have a professional background in community economic development and was eager to apply my skills here in Baltimore. When I arrived, I was not prepared for the devastation that I encountered. The physical deterioration was compelling, but the biggest disappointment was the apathy of the citizens. The violence in this city is overwhelming, and the citizens seem to be numb.

Services for Sharon Ann Andrews will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier Church, 13717 Cuba Road in Hunt Valley. Mrs. Andrews, who was 61 and lived in Monkton, died in an Oct. 11 boating accident on the Sassafras River near the Betterton area of Kent County. Born Sharon Ann Thompson in Baltimore and raised in Perry Hall, she was a graduate of Overlea High School and earned a diploma at the Maryland General Hospital Nursing School in 1967. She was an obstetrical nurse at Maryland General Hospital and then became a Baltimore Health Department public health nurse.

The basement of West Baltimore's Union Baptist Church used to be storage space, but now it's filled with flat-screen monitors and Dell PCs loaded with programs like Microsoft Word. With financial help from a nonprofit group and a local hospital, members of the church at 1219 Druid Hill Ave. have created their own tech-savvy oasis. The Harvey Johnson Neighborhood CyberCentre, which opened for use yesterday, will fill an important and sometimes overlooked need for the community that surrounds the church, organizers said.

Mary S. Tawney, a homemaker and longtime hospital volunteer, died Monday of an aneurysm at Sinai Hospital. The North Baltimore resident was 85. Mary Sharp was born and raised in Philadelphia. She graduated in 1940 from Abington High School in Abington, Pa., and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1944. She managed the gift shop for many years at Maryland General Hospital and later volunteered in the blood testing unit at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and the Red Cross.

Acquisitions Phillips Edison & Co., a retail real estate management and development company, purchased Powell Villa, a community shopping center in Portland, Ore. Awards Imre Communications was named Best in Show in the Public Relations Society of America's Best in Maryland competition for its work for Travelers Insurance. Community Health Charities presented Donald P. McPherson III, an attorney with DLA Piper Rudnick, with the 2007 Joseph Forni Award, and Jan Thompson, president of the Maryland chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, was named Volunteer of the Year.