Maryland General Hospital

Take equal parts Pimlico and Las Vegas. Place into Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Mix well. Serve immediately. Result? "The Fourth Running of the Maryland General Gala." Serves 400. As glittery guests arrived at the Maryland General Hospital fund-raiser, they were greeted by "Elvis" and invited to pose for photos with him against a Las Vegas backdrop. A variety of casino-style games and simulated horse races awaited inside the ballroom. Scores of dinner tables with centerpieces of red roses and Gerbera daisies, white snapdragons and orchids, accented by swizzles of silver furthered the festive mood.

The University Specialty Hospital is expected to move its inpatient chronic care services to other hospitals in the University of Maryland Medical System in July, hospital and state officials said Tuesday. Hospital officials said they would move the traumatic brain injury program to Kernan Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Hospital and ventilator-dependent patients to Maryland General Hospital. The specialty hospital will provide only outpatient programs. The specialty hospital staff will be able to apply for open positions within the system, though it's unclear how many of the 350 employees will find jobs, according to state and hospital officials.

Dr. Albert Steiner, a Baltimore otolaryngologist and former chief of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Maryland General Hospital, died Sunday of melanoma at his Owings Mills home. He was 89. An ear, nose and throat specialist, Dr. Steiner was chief of otolaryngology at Maryland General from 1973 to 1986. He remained in private practice until retiring in 1995. For the last 15 years of his career, Dr. Steiner's Armory Place office was jammed with people from all walks of life. Earlier, he had maintained an office on Eutaw Place.

F. Duncan Cornell, a retired lawyer who had served on the Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church for nearly 50 years and was also a longtime Maryland General Hospital board member, died Friday of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Lutherville resident had celebrated his 94th birthday last month. Frank Duncan Cornell, the son of a psychiatrist and a homemaker, was born in New York City and raised in Menands, N.Y., a suburb of Albany. Mr. Cornell, who was known as Duncan, was a 1934 graduate of the Milne School in Albany.

F. Duncan Cornell, a retired lawyer who had served on the Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church for nearly 50 years and was also a longtime Maryland General Hospital board member, died Friday of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Lutherville resident had celebrated his 94th birthday last month. Frank Duncan Cornell, the son of a psychiatrist and a homemaker, was born in New York City and raised in Menands, N.Y., a suburb of Albany. Mr. Cornell, who was known as Duncan, was a 1934 graduate of the Milne School in Albany.

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.

A front-page index item Tuesday incorrectly suggested that Maryland General Hospital had just hired a Utah firm, PCS Laboratory Solutions, to manage its troubled laboratory operation. In fact, the hospital announced the hiring March 18.

Robert Mason Green: The year of retired Army Maj. Robert Mason Green's retirement as director of security and special services at Maryland General Hospital was reported incorrectly Sunday. He retired in 1981.

Seven people were sent to area hospitals today after the collision of a Mass Transit Administration bus and a car at Cathedral and Preston streets near Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.Fire Department spokesman Capt. Patrick P. Flynn said four city ambulances were used to transport the injured. One victim was taken to the Shock-Trauma Unit in Baltimore; another to University of Maryland Medical Center; three to Maryland General Hospital; and two to Union Memorial Hospital.

The University Specialty Hospital is expected to move its inpatient chronic care services to other hospitals in the University of Maryland Medical System in July, hospital and state officials said Tuesday. Hospital officials said they would move the traumatic brain injury program to Kernan Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Hospital and ventilator-dependent patients to Maryland General Hospital. The specialty hospital will provide only outpatient programs. The specialty hospital staff will be able to apply for open positions within the system, though it's unclear how many of the 350 employees will find jobs, according to state and hospital officials.

Nearly 30 years ago, Maryland General Hospital was poised to move from Baltimore to Cockeysville - until then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer found out and challenged the plan that he feared would leave city residents without adequate options for health care. Next week, hospital leaders will join new Baltimore Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake to open a $57 million expansion - the largest and most expensive change since Maryland General shifted course to stay in the city and became part of the University of Maryland Medical System in 1999.

R osalyn Shecter, who headed Maryland's film censorship board during the contentious 1960s, died of heart disease Tuesday at the North Oaks retirement community. She was 95. Born Rosalyn Margareten in New York City, she was granddaughter of the woman who founded the Horowitz-Margareten matzo and kosher foods business. She attended Hunter College and later studied sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She met her future husband, Baltimore advertising executive Lois E. Shecter, in Miami Beach.

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.

Nellie B. Brady, a retired registered nurse who had worked at several area hospitals, died of a heart attack Feb. 24 at her Towson home. She was 81. She was born Nellie Buck in Baltimore and raised in Guilford. She was a 1943 graduate of Eastern High School and earned her nursing degree in 1946 from Maryland General Hospital School of Nursing. While at the school of nursing, she met her future husband, Dr. Frank J. Brady, who was completing a rotating internship at the hospital. They were married in 1946.

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.