Hagerstown free clinic aims to take new patients
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: community free clinic, fiscal year, free clinic, funding, hagerstown, health insurance, herald-mail, patients
HAGERTOWN — The Community Free Clinic in Hagerstown says it hopes to start accepting new patients by early March.
The clinic stopped seeing new patients in late October due to a funding shortfall.
The executive director told The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown newspaper Sunday that a fund drive, combined with cost-cutting measures, may make it possible for the [...]
School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 25, 2012
Tags: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, first lady, junk food, lunches, michelle obama, Parklawn Elementary, school
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings — including the always popular pizza — will come with less sodium, more whole grains and a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side.
First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the [...]
Food Network, book take on weight in chef whites
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 24, 2012
Tags: chef, diabetes, food network, healthy, paula deen, weight
NEW YORK — Paula Deen’s diabetes revelation pretty much sums it up: Kitchen pros at all levels struggle with obesity and its dangerous aftertaste in the high-pressure, high-calorie world of food.
The queen of Southern comfort cooking, now a spokeswoman for a diabetes drugmaker’s health initiative, announced last week that she hid her Type 2 diabetes [...]
O’Malley increases DDA funding
BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: budget, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Developmental Disabilities Administration, funding, General Assembly, general fund, gov. martin o'malley, joshua sharfstein, thomas frank kirkland
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After a rocky six months for the Developmental Disabilities Administration, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal increases funding by about $31 million and creates a new fund so unspent money will stay in the agency.
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein and Developmental Disabilities Administration Director Thomas Frank Kirkland sent a [...]
Md. health organization seeking to hire veterans
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, employment, Health Facilities Association, hire, jobs, long-term health care, maryland, veterans
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s largest long-term care organization says its members want to hire returning veterans.
Joseph DeMattos, president of the Health Facilities Association of Maryland, made the announcement Thursday in Annapolis with Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, and state lawmakers who are veterans.
DeMattos says several major nursing and [...]
Sharfstein commits to fixing DDA problems
BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: January 18, 2012
Tags: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein, Department of Legislative Services, Developmental Disabilities Administration, General Assembly, House Appropriations Committee, maryland
ANNAPOLIS — A flawed, outdated and ineffective method of accounting is why the state Developmental Disabilities Administration discovered $33 million in unspent funds, and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein said the agency is committed to fixing those problems.
Testifying Tuesday before the House Appropriations Committee, Sharfstein, whose department oversees the Developmental Disabilities [...]
Coca-Cola says it told government about fungicide in orange juice
BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: January 12, 2012
Tags: brazil, carbendazim, citrus, coca-cola co., FDA, food and drug administration, fungicide, fungus, juice products association, minute maid, orange juice, pespsico, simply orange, tropicana
Comments: 1
WASHINGTON — Coca-Cola Co. acknowledged Thursday it was the company that alerted federal regulators about low levels of fungicide in its own orange juice and in competitors’ juice, prompting juice prices to rise and increased government testing for the residue.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have said [...]
America hits the brakes on health care spending
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 9, 2012
Tags: Economy, emory university, george mason university, Government, health affairs, Health and Human Services, Health Care, health care spending, HHS, ken thorpe, medicare, Recession, washington
WASHINGTON — Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.
Experts debated whether it’s a fleeting consequence of the sluggish economy, or a real sign that cost controls by private employers and government at [...]
Payments made to spur electronic health records
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 5, 2012
Tags: electronic, health, Health Care, information, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, maryland, Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Program, O'Malley, payments, records, Technology
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland has made its first payments to medical providers and hospitals through the federal Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Program.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced Thursday that more than $2 million has been sent to the first group of eligible providers. The program is funded with federal money through the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]
Maryland reports first case of seasonal influenza
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 30, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, Health Care, illness, influenza, maryland
Maryland health officials are reporting the state’s first case of seasonal influenza.
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Friday that the first laboratory-confirmed case of seasonal influenza has been diagnosed in an adult in the Baltimore area.
This season’s first confirmed case comes months later than last season’s. Officials say last season’s first confirmed case [...]
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