Shock Trauma Center

The University of Maryland Medical Center and its R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center today kicked off a fundraising campaign for a $160 million, nine-floor building — with former Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. as honorary chairman. The trauma/critical care building, scheduled to open in 2013 at the northeast corner of Penn and Lombard streets, is one of the largest construction projects to get under way in Baltimore this year. The building will be the first major expansion of Shock Trauma since it opened in 1989 and will result in the creation of 300 construction jobs and hundreds more permanent jobs.

Dr. Theodore Houk's condition after being struck by a car on North Charles Street on Thursday was upgraded from critical to serious over the weekend, according to a Maryland Shock Trauma Center spokeswoman. Houk, 50, is well-known for jogging 5.5 miles a day from his home in Lutherville to his job as an internal medicine specialist at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. About 8:12 a.m. Thursday near North Charles Street and Chestnut Avenue, police said Houk was jogging and "strayed into" a northbound travel lane of the roadway, where he was struck by a 2005 Toyota RAV4 being driven by a 65-year-old woman.

More than 1,400 guests gathered at the new Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel to applaud emergency medical service providers statewide who make the University of Maryland's R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center a leader in caring for those with critical injuries. They also witnessed the presentation of Hero Awards to more than 100 emergency medical providers who were involved in the rescue and lifesaving efforts -- from answering 911 calls to the hospital release -- of two young women injured in separate automobile crashes last year.

A man was shot in the 200 block of Perrywood Court near Aberdeen about 6:20 p.m. Saturday, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Deputies arrived and discovered one male, later identified as Daniel Patrick Morris, 26, of the 400 block of Willow Drive in Elkton, had been shot; he was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace by an acquaintance, the sheriff's office said. Morris was eventually flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore by a Maryland State Police Medevac helicopter.

U.S. Senate candidate A. Robert Kaufman, a socialist and perennial office seeker, was reported in critical condition last night after being stabbed during an argument with another man at his West Baltimore apartment building, city police said. Police would not describe the argument leading up to the stabbing about 4 p.m., but a police source and other tenants said the dispute was with a tenant over rent in the three-story building in the 2000 block of N. Hilton St. Kaufman, 74, was stabbed several times in the head and neck, police said.

An article in yesterday's editions incorrectly identified the director of the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. His name is John W. Ashworth III.The Sun regrets the error.

EASTON -- A 17-year-old Hurlock boy has been charged as an adult with raping a 13-year-old Easton girl who later stabbed him.Terrance Victor Young Jr., who remained hospitalized at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, faces eight charges of rape and assault under a warrant obtained by the talbot County sheriff's office.Pub Date: 9/12/97

An article in some editions of The Evening Sun yesterday on the appointment of Dr. Robert Redwood Bass, executive director of the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, incorrectly stated his duties. He does not supervise the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, whose director is John W. Ashworth.The Evening Sun regrets the error.

Yesterday's Anne Arundel edition of The Sun incorrectly reported the condition of a Pasadena man who was struck by a car Wednesday as he walked on Fort Smallwood Road. Maryland Shock Trauma Center computer records had not noted that Marion Christian Vonfessen died of his injuries the same day.The Sun regrets the error.

The Sun incorrectly reported Saturday the condition of 16-year-old Trey Green of West Baltimore, who was shot Friday afternoon in 2000 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway. Police said he was in critical condition yesterday at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.The Sun regrets the errors.

Dr. Clifford H. Turen, an internationally know traumatologist and former chief of orthopedics who had worked at Maryland Shock Trauma Center for two decades, was killed Jan. 13 when the private single-engine plane he was flying crashed in dense fog into trees east of Dover, Del. The Clarksville resident was 55. According to published news reports, Dr. Turen was en route from Sandersville, Ga., to Summit Airport in Middletown, Del., in his...

Howard County Police report that a man was injured and taken to Maryland Shock Trauma early Sunday following a single vehicle crash on Old Frederick Road at Route 32 in West Friendship. According to police, the crash occurred at about 2:44 a.m., when a 1991 Toyota MR2 traveling west on Old Frederick Road failed to negotiate a curve, and the driver lost control.  The Toyota slid off of the roadway and struck a BGE pole, police said. The driver was identified as William Allen Buell, 30, of the 11000 block of Pleasant Walk Road, Myersville.

Anne Arundel County police officers are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck a 64-year-old bicyclist in Hanover on Sunday morning, sending him to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. According to the Anne Arundel County Police Department and Shock Trauma Center spokesperson Cindy Rivers, the bicyclist, Stephen Eugene Shenefiel of the 1500 block of Conifer Ridge Lane in Prescott, Arizona, was listed in critical but stable condition as of Sunday night. Officers responded at 7:36 a.m. Sunday to the report of a bicyclist who was struck on Ridge Road near Furnace Avenue.

Elizabeth S. Trump, former longtime director of nurses at Maryland Shock Trauma Center who played a pivotal role in its establishment with Dr. R Adams Cowley more than 50 years ago, died Wednesday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at her home in the Hampton neighborhood of Baltimore County. She was 78. "Liz and R A. started and matured what is considered by everyone the most sophisticated trauma center in the United States, if not the world," said Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, Shock Trauma's physician-in-chief.

The University of Maryland said Tuesday that it had completed a rare full face transplant on a 37-year-old man, including a double jaw and tongue. The 36-hour surgery was performed at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center by a team of doctors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Officials did not release the name of the patient or donor but plan to offer more information on the procedure next week. Across the city, John Hopkins Hospital has also put together a team of surgeons that could do a face transplant.

A Baltimore firefighter was injured Sunday evening battling a blaze in a vacant, two-story rowhouse at 304 E. 24th St. in north Baltimore's Barclay neighborhood. According to the Baltimore Firefighters Union, the fire was reported around 8:08 p.m. and consumed most of the structure's second floor. The firefighter was injured after he fell through a hole in the first floor of the building into the basement, according to a city fire department spokesman and union representatives.

Today's highlights: House of Delegates meets. 11 a.m. House chamber. Senate meets. 11 a.m. Senate chamber. Senate Budget and Taxation subcommittee hearing on the state emergency medical system, including Maryland Shock Trauma Center. 1 p.m. Senate office building, Room 100.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 201 THE VICTIM A teenager was shot about 2 p.m. yesterday in the 1400 block of Riggs Ave. and died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police reported. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 176 homicides as of Aug. 23, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap.

The message was one that parents in Maryland dread hearing: Your son has been in a car crash and is being taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. As I learned in a very personal way a week ago, the second part of that statement was good news. I wouldn't wish it on any of my readers, but if you ever do get a call like that, the destination is cause for optimism. If a crash victim gets to Shock Trauma alive, there's a very good chance he or she will remain that way. Spokeswoman Cindy Rivers put the survival rate at 97 percent.

A 40-year-old deaf woman was struck by a Light Rail train Friday night at South Howard and West Camden streets, a Maryland Transit Administration spokesman said. The unidentified woman was standing near the Convention Center stop with a companion at about 8:20 p.m. when she stepped out in front of the northbound train, said Terry Owens, spokesman with the Maryland Transit Administration. He said the train operator sounded the horn, but the woman did not hear it and she did not see the train because she had her back to it. The women was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma for non-life-threatening head injuries, Owens said.