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Sr. Helen Amos | Mercy Health Services
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The University of Baltimore Schaefer Center for Public Policy announced that Sister Helen Amos, RSM, executive chair of Mercy Health Services Board of Trustees, received the 2020 William Donald Schaefer Award.
Amos has more than 35 years’ experience in the fields of education and health care administration. After working as a teacher in Georgia, she arrived in Baltimore to take a position as registrar for Mount Saint Agnes College where she had earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1962. Amos would later take on administrator duties with the Sisters of Mercy of the Union and the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Before coming to Mercy, Sister Helen served as president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Union in Silver Spring from 1984 to 1991.
Amos and the leadership team of Mercy Health Services are responsible for the development and implementation of numerous programs at Mercy, including the creation of The Center for Women’s Health & Medicine and its flagship programs in gynecologic oncology and breast cancer diagnosis and treatment; “The Woman’s Doctor” program on WBAL-TV; and Mercy’s network of specialty and primary care physicians.
