Mercy Medical Center is a 130+ year old, Catholic healthcare facility and teaching hospital for the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Administrators at Mercy Medical Center realized that paper processes were creating numerous time and cost inefficiencies. Storing hard copies of medical records, admissions paperwork and other documents on-site...
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. -- Aurora Imaging Technology Inc. is proud to announce that the Aurora([R]) Dedicated Breast MRI System was exclusively utilized in a large clinical study that demonstrated the significance of preoperative breast MRI for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, while producing no delay in treatment. The study, co-sponsored...
The Journal Record Publishing Co. The Journal Record Publishing Co. named David Rhea social media editor and Dana Hall advertising account manager. Mercy Health Center Gabriel Pardo MD, a neurologist and neuro-ophthalmologist and medical director of Mercy Hospital's Multiple Sclerosis Center...
WHO: Donald C. Fry, president & CEO, Greater Baltimore Committee Otis Rolley III, president & CEO, Central Maryland Transit Alliance Gregory F. Schaffer, president, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Sister Helen Amos RSM, executive chairperson of the Board, Mercy Health Services, Inc. Charles...
Mark Fulco says Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno provided a good amount of the inspiration for Mercy Medical Center's 'Take a New Look' marketing campaign, because, well, that's pretty much what the mayor did. Only a few weeks after being sworn into office earlier this year, Sarno among others was...
The new Baltimore Hilton Convention Center Hotel was the site of the recent annual meeting of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. This latest addition to Pratt Street was also the venue for the public unveiling of the plans to give Baltimore's "front yard" a substantial -- if not extreme...
Banking Gold Coast Bank in Islandia welcomed Suzanne K. Kirkpatrick as vice president/relationship manager. Kirkpatrick, who will focus on small-business and middle-market clients, was formerly an independent consultant serving the small-business community and providing risk analysis for commercial banks. Education Adelphi...
Mindy Burdick has been named Mercy Memorial Health Center's president. Her appointment is effective Oct. 20. Burdick was administrator at Baptist Medical Center, part of the Baptist Health System in Montgomery, Ala. Earlier she was chief operating officer for United Regional Health Care System...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Concentric Medical, Inc., the global leader in devices for clot removal in ischemic stroke patients, today announced its plan to sponsor a prospective randomized clinical trial comparing intervention using the Merci Retrieval SystemTM with best medical therapy. A steering committee...
New York taps Lifeclinic Lifeclinic International Inc., of Burtonsville, a supplier of commercial and automated blood pressure monitors and health stations, said its LC300 blood pressure monitors were purchased by the New York City Health Department for a hypertension awareness campaign. The machines are being donated by...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercy Merced Medical Center, part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, will use the Clinical Xpert CareFocus solution from Thomson Reuters to rapidly identify high-risk patients within the active hospital census. CareFocus is an extension of the Clinical Xpert Navigator...
Federal Tort Claims Pain and Suffering Kolerski v. U.S., 06-CV-422, Judge Skretny Background: The plaintiffs are the co-executors of the estate of Edward Heath and filed a complaint against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The plaintiffs...
Session to Address How RFID-based Medical Inventory Management Solution Enables Efficient Clinical Workflow and Improves Patient Safety LITTLETON, Mass. -- WaveMark, Inc., provider of real-time inventory management solutions for high value specialty products within the healthcare supply chain, announced today that John Wass, CEO, will co-present an educational...
When the rains came to Iowa and much of the Midwest in June, the Cedar River running through Cedar Rapids started rising. But Mercy Medical Center was 10 blocks from the river and three blocks beyond a 500-year flood plain. By June 13, however, the 360-bed hospital was...
VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, hashired Bill Senneff as executive officer and leader of its Gulf Statesregion. VHA Gulf States is one of 16 regional offices, which serve as hubs for thedelivery, coordination and development of programs and services that helpVHA members improve their clinical performance and operational...
Four Hospitals in Northwest Indiana Affiliated With Sisters of St. Francis Network Join the Indiana Health Information Exchange INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Health Information Exchange IHIE today announced that Saint Anthony Medical Center, Saint Anthony Memorial and Saint Margaret Mercy are now using its results delivery / clinical...
Hospital's Communications Services Stay up and Running Despite Disastrous Flooding CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- As flood waters rose in Iowa, Cedar Rapids-based Mercy Medical Center was in danger of losing vital communications systems as the hospital prepared to evacuate its patients. With the help of Qwest Communications' technology...
Healthy hospital food? Evoking images of watery Jell-O and mystery meat, hospital food has a bad reputation for being mass-produced, bland and, ironically, unhealthy. No more. As part of University of Maryland School of Nursing's "Healthy Food in Health Care Initiative," four Maryland hospitals -- Mercy Medical...
Invoking images of watery Jell-O and mystery meat, hospital food has a bad reputation for being mass-produced, bland and, ironically, unhealthy. No more. As part of University of Maryland School of Nursing's "Healthy Food in Health Care Initiative," four Maryland hospitals -- Mercy...
I have always respected the job done by the people who do the work at the hospital--the folks who work in food service, SPD, the mailroom, environmental services, the nursing assistants--people who labor tirelessly behind the scenes, never receiving credit for their efforts. Likewise, I have always encouraged the folks...
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