NEWS
By Kelly Brewington and David Kohn and Kelly Brewington and David Kohn,kelly.brewington@baltsun.com and david.kohn@baltsun.com | September 20, 2008
The Maryland Insurance Administration is investigating complaints that some psychiatric patients have been forced to wait hours - in some cases, several days - to be hospitalized because their insurance companies have not responded quickly when emergency room doctors called to verify coverage.The Baltimore health department has sent the state agency information about 10 cases in recent months in which patients endured long waits to be admitted to hospitals because their insurance companies could not be reached for approval.
NEWS
By Molly Knight and Molly Knight,SUN STAFF | June 27, 2004
After almost a century spent caring for the mentally ill, Crownsville Hospital Center is shutting its doors. Sometime this week, the state hopes to transfer the handful of patients who remain at the hospital - a move that will complete the closure of the historic, state-run psychiatric complex in Anne Arundel County. The shutdown will leave the state with just two primary residential facilities for the mentally ill: Spring Grove Hospital Center in Baltimore County and Springfield Hospital Center in Carroll County.
NEWS
By Molly Knight and Molly Knight,SUN STAFF | June 27, 2004
After almost a century spent caring for the mentally ill, Crownsville Hospital Center is shutting its doors. Sometime this week, the state hopes to transfer the handful of patients who remain at the hospital -- a move that will complete the closure of the historic, state-run psychiatric complex in Anne Arundel County. The shutdown will leave the state with just two primary residential facilities for the mentally ill: Spring Grove Hospital Center in Baltimore County and Springfield Hospital Center in Carroll County.
NEWS
By Erika Hobbs and Erika Hobbs,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | June 6, 2004
The $93 million renovation of one of the nation's oldest psychiatric care facilities is designed to accent the acclaimed institution's reputation. Sheppard Pratt Health System's new complex in Towson will include a four-story hospital with 192 beds. A gym will be attached. Some of the 113-year-old buildings will be upgraded and used for a resident adolescent program, outpatient therapy services and administrative offices. For the first time, the hospital will have a separate ambulance entrance.
NEWS
By Laura Barnhardt and David Anderson and Laura Barnhardt and David Anderson,SUN STAFF | September 18, 2003
The Carney man accused of shooting his father with a rifle Tuesday night and calling 911 to report the killing was being held yesterday at the state's maximum security psychiatric hospital in Jessup, Baltimore County police said. Mark A. Tomick, 35, was arrested shortly after the shooting in his home in the 3000 block of Fourth Ave. and charged with first-degree murder, police said. His father, Andre E. Tomick, 62, of the 700 block of Chestnut Hill Road in Forest Hill, Harford County, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
NEWS
By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,SUN STAFF | February 6, 2003
A mentally ill Annapolis man admitted yesterday to shooting at police in an incident last summer that led to a four-hour standoff at a city public housing project. Demarrow Antjuan Williams, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of felony assault and one weapons charge stemming from the July 30 incident. In exchange, other charges in that and three more cases will be dropped. Williams beamed at relatives who attended the brief hearing before Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Joseph P. Manck.