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Washington Bullets assistant coach Bill Blair will be released from Washington Hospital Center today after undergoing minor surgery Monday to increase the blood flow in his right coronary artery.Blair was admitted to Anne Arundel Medical Center on Thursday after complaining of chest pains and was transferred to Washington Hospital Center to undergo further tests. A balloon was inserted to relieve the problem in his clogged artery, and the surgery was deemed successful.The veteran NBA coach, who also served as an aide in New Jersey and Chicago before joining the Bullets in 1986, will undergo a stress test next week.

Dr. Philip J. Ferris, former longtime chairman of the department of surgery at Franklin Square Medical Center, died Nov. 8 of cardiac arrest at his Lutherville home. He was 79. "He was just a great man. He was down-to-earth and fun, but at the same time he was the utmost surgeon who had both a passion for perfection and teaching," said Michael R. Merson, former president of Franklin Square Medical Center, who is now chairman of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. "In all the years I worked with him, if something went wrong, he was the kind of surgeon you wanted to take care of you," said Mr. Merson.

On June 6, 2006, of Washington, DC, devoted mother of Joseph Davies Tydings and Eleanor Tydings Schapiro. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one sister, Emlen Davies Evers. Memorial Celebration Service will be held on Monday, June 19, at 11 A. M at the National Cathedral. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20010. Arrangements by Joseph Gawler's Sons Inc.

Tamia Washington was 39 weeks pregnant and having contractions at Washington Hospital Center for several hours Monday when the staff sent her home, saying she wasn't ready yet. She got to her apartment in Southeast Washington, and just a short time later, she and her boyfriend realized they needed to rush back to the hospital. Five minutes into the car trip, as they were pulling onto Interstate 295, she reached into her sweatpants and felt her baby's head in her hands. "The palm of my hand was where her head was, and I was like, 'No!

On April 7, 2007 John G. Ginn of Glen Burnie, dear brother of Cheryl Y. Keeter and Laurel L. Ginn. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Friends and Family may call at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home P.A., 421 Crain Hwy. S.E. Glen Burnie, MD on Thursday from 3-6 P.M. Services will be held Thursday at 6:00 P.M. Interment will be private. Contributions to the Tate Cancer Center at Baltimore Washington Hospital Center, 301 Hospital Drive, Glen Burnie, Md 21061 will be appreciated by the family.

An Anne Arundel County man shot twice by a civilian Navy employee he helped supervise in Arlington, Va., was in stable condition yesterday after surgery at Washington Hospital Center.Nils F. "Fred" Salvesen, 30, of the 1400 block of Oak Bluff Road in Edgewater was recovering from gunshot wounds to the neck and left side after what police said was an quarrel with Ernest J. Cooper Jr. of Waldorf in their Crystal City office building Friday.After shooting Mr. Salvesen and wounding another supervisor as other employees scrambled for cover shortly before 8 a.m. Friday, Mr. Cooper, 58, shot himself in the head.

John P. McDaniel, who led MedStar Health and its predecessors for a quarter-century, building it into a large comprehensive health system, will retire as chief executive officer at the end of next year, MedStar announced yesterday. Kenneth A. Samet, president and chief operating officer, will assume the CEO title Jan. 1, 2008. Samet first went to work for McDaniel as part of Samet's graduate training in hospital administration in 1982, and he has worked for McDaniel ever since. MedStar, with headquarters in Columbia, was formed by the 1998 merger of Medlantic Healthcare Group - including its flagship Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in the District of Columbia - and Helix Health, which operated five hospitals in the Baltimore area.

MedStar Health is asking a court to block new open-heart surgery regulations, charging that the Maryland Health Care Commission "arbitrarily and capriciously `cooked the books' " to justify an additional open-heart program in Maryland's Washington suburbs. MedStar, with headquarters in Columbia, owns seven hospitals, including Washington Hospital Center, which runs the dominant heart surgery program in the District of Columbia and its Maryland suburbs. MedStar also does open-heart surgery at Georgetown University Hospital, and is hoping for that program to grow.

Howard Community College and Washington Hospital Center in Washington have agreed to start a cardiovascular technology program that could be the first college program of its kind in Maryland.Cardiovascular technologists are certified medical personnel who assist physicians and nurses in testing, monitoring and treating heart patients.On Wednesday, community college trustees voted unanimously to launch a two-year program that would train 12 to 15 students a year, starting this fall. The program is expected to cost $99,420 annually.

Three weeks after returning to Southern Middle School with an artificial heart pump implanted in his chest, teacher Steve Ferralli has a new heart. Ferralli got his new heart at Washington Hospital Center. Doctors also removed the pump that had allowed Ferralli to return to teaching last month despite his failing heart. He had expected to teach with the pump for months. But at 9 a.m. Friday, Washington Hospital Center called Southern Middle in Lothian and told the principal to arrange to get Ferralli to the hospital by noon.

On April 7, 2007 John G. Ginn of Glen Burnie, dear brother of Cheryl Y. Keeter and Laurel L. Ginn. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Friends and Family may call at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home P.A., 421 Crain Hwy. S.E. Glen Burnie, MD on Thursday from 3-6 P.M. Services will be held Thursday at 6:00 P.M. Interment will be private. Contributions to the Tate Cancer Center at Baltimore Washington Hospital Center, 301 Hospital Drive, Glen Burnie, Md 21061 will be appreciated by the family.

John P. McDaniel, who led MedStar Health and its predecessors for a quarter-century, building it into a large comprehensive health system, will retire as chief executive officer at the end of next year, MedStar announced yesterday. Kenneth A. Samet, president and chief operating officer, will assume the CEO title Jan. 1, 2008. Samet first went to work for McDaniel as part of Samet's graduate training in hospital administration in 1982, and he has worked for McDaniel ever since. MedStar, with headquarters in Columbia, was formed by the 1998 merger of Medlantic Healthcare Group - including its flagship Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in the District of Columbia - and Helix Health, which operated five hospitals in the Baltimore area.

On June 6, 2006, of Washington, DC, devoted mother of Joseph Davies Tydings and Eleanor Tydings Schapiro. She is also survived by eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one sister, Emlen Davies Evers. Memorial Celebration Service will be held on Monday, June 19, at 11 A. M at the National Cathedral. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20010. Arrangements by Joseph Gawler's Sons Inc.

In an extraordinary blow to the agency that oversees Maryland's hospitals, the state's highest court rejected yesterday a plan for a new open-heart-surgery center in the Washington suburbs and charged that regulators employed "palpable fiction" in determining its need. The Maryland Court of Appeals' 4-3 ruling overturns a Howard County Circuit Court decision and stops Suburban Hospital in Bethesda from opening a center, much sought after for the revenue and prestige it would produce. The Maryland Health Care Commission, which approved the new center in December, said yesterday that it and its predecessors had never before been overruled in their more than 20 years of existence.

Steve Ferralli returned to Southern Middle School in Lothian yesterday with a new heart but the same soul - full of the energy, warmth and humor that have marked his 26-year teaching career. "Mr. Ferralli's back!" some pupils shouted as they entered his classroom. They had not seen him since September, when he abruptly left school one morning to rush to Washington Hospital Center for a heart transplant. After two weeks in the hospital and four months at home, the technical education teacher returned to the classroom yesterday.

Three weeks after returning to Southern Middle School with an artificial heart pump implanted in his chest, teacher Steve Ferralli has a new heart. Ferralli got his new heart at Washington Hospital Center. Doctors also removed the pump that had allowed Ferralli to return to teaching last month despite his failing heart. He had expected to teach with the pump for months. But at 9 a.m. Friday, Washington Hospital Center called Southern Middle in Lothian and told the principal to arrange to get Ferralli to the hospital by noon.

In 25 years as a technical education teacher at Southern Middle School in Lothian, Steve Ferralli barely made a dent in his sick time. In February, though, that started to change. At first, he felt run-down, out of breath climbing a simple flight of stairs. He thought it must be the flu. His doctors learned it was something much worse. They told him it was cardiomyopathy -- an inflammation of the heart muscle that has left him in need of a new heart. In his years at Southern Middle School, Ferralli knew his pupils and co-workers cared about him, though such sentiment was usually reserved for when a former student returned to campus years later and told him that he had made an impact in some small way. But the outpouring has been enormous in the weeks and months since Ferralli, 46, fell ill. Hundreds of cards and letters have been sent to him at Washington Hospital Center, where he has spent the past eight weeks, much of it in bed after an operation to implant a mechanical pump to keep his heart going until a new one is found.