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By Richard Irwin | September 25, 2009
An off-duty Baltimore police officer was shot Thursday night in the abdomen outside his Northwest Baltimore home in the Glen neighborhood in what appeared to be an attempted robbery by two young males, during which gunshots were exchanged. His name and assignment were not released. Police said a teenage boy walked into the emergency room at Sinai Hospital bleeding from a bullet wound to a leg shortly after the officer was shot about 10 p.m. outside his home in the 6000 block of Highgate Drive and told police he was shot at Park Heights and Spaulding avenues, many blocks from where the office was shot.
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By Liz F. Kay | August 1, 2009
High sustained winds and rain damaged homes in Finksburg and knocked out power Friday afternoon to more than 40,000 Baltimore Gas & Electric customers in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties. Sinai Hospital in the city was one of the customers affected. Three homes in the 2900 block of Constellation Way of the Star View Estates community near Gamber were condemned after significant damage to roofs and structures, and several nearby homes were also damaged, said Brian Horton, spokesman for the Carroll County Sheriff's Office.
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July 3, 2009
Sinai Hospital opens $55 million expansion Sinai Hospital at 2401 W. Belvedere Ave. in Baltimore opened an "eco-friendly" addition Thursday that includes a 29-bed intensive care unit, a 36-bed intermediate care unit, a helipad and an atrium with a 40-foot waterfall. Hord Coplan Macht of Baltimore designed the $55 million, four-story building called the South Tower Expansion. According to the hospital, the new 87,000-square-foot building features "the area's first hospital roof garden," with low-maintenance plants that are expected to mature in two to three years.
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By Liz F. Kay | May 13, 2009
At least eight people were injured in an accident Tuesday morning in Pikesville involving eight vehicles, including a school bus headed to Pikesville Middle School, according to Baltimore County authorities. Sgt. Vickie Warehime, a county police spokeswoman, said the chain-reaction collision was reported about 7:45 a.m. at Park Heights Avenue and Brooks Robinson Drive south of Interstate 695. Six of the vehicles were waiting in the left-turn lane on southbound Park Heights Avenue to go onto Brooks Robinson Drive when they were struck by the bus, according to Warehime.
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By Stephanie Desmon | January 2, 2009
Murray Steinberg, a Baltimore-area gynecologist who nurtured a lifelong passion for physics by attending college-level science classes for decades, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday at his Pikesville home. He was 87 and had stopped auditing courses at the Johns Hopkins University just last year. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. Steinberg was a 1940 graduate of New York University, receiving his undergraduate degree at age 18 after being selected for Phi Beta Kappa and membership in biology and chemistry honor societies.
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By Gus G. Sentementes and Justin Fenton | December 17, 2008
Three men were shot and killed in apparently separate incidents Monday night and early yesterday in Northwest Baltimore, city police said. Yesterday morning's slaying happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the 5100 block of Palmer Ave., about one block south of Pimlico Race Course. The man, whose identity had not been confirmed as of last night, appeared to be in his early 20s, according to Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman. The man was pronounced dead at Sinai Hospital shortly after paramedics took him there, police said.
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December 4, 2008
Smoke-free zones boost public health Almost 16 years ago, my first son was born at Sinai Hospital. As we exited the hospital to our awaiting car, his first breaths of fresh air were actually a haze of cigarette smoke. I wrote the CEO of Sinai Hospital at the time to complain. I never heard back. When my second son was born years later, again at Sinai, the same scenario occurred. I applaud City Councilman Robert W. Curran's efforts and hope the City Council approves the bill to limit smoking outside hospitals ("Smoke-free zone," editorial, Nov. 30)
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By Nancy Jones-Bonbrest | November 23, 2008
Salary: $70,000 Age: 38 Years on the job: 18 How he got started : After serving in Desert Storm, Walden took a job as a technician in the central sterilizing department of a hospital in the Philadelphia area. While working full time, he completed his bachelor's degree in criminal justice and health care administration at Temple University. He later moved to Maryland and took a job at Johns Hopkins Hospital in its central sterilizing department. He switched to his job with Sinai Hospital five months ago. He's certified by the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management and the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution.
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By Liz F. Kay | October 18, 2008
A former Sinai Hospital patient is suing the hospital and a security guard for $77 million after he says he was assaulted in the emergency room on Labor Day. Felony assault and attempted-murder charges had been filed against the guard, Timothy Hough, but the state's attorney's office intends to reduce those charges to misdemeanors, the patient's attorney, Quinton M. Herbert, said yesterday. The case goes to trial Monday. "What's most astonishing is that it appears this decision was made without reviewing the medical records, without reviewing the photographs," Herbert said.
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By RICHARD IRWIN | July 29, 2008
Four people were shot - three fatally - within 40 minutes last night, in three apparently unrelated incidents, a city police spokesman said. The victims' identities were not immediately available. Police said they knew of no motives or suspects. The first of the shootings was reported at 9:23 p.m. at East North Avenue and North Wolfe Street, where an assailant shot a 24-year-old man in the chest and a girl in a leg. The man died shortly before 10 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital's trauma center.