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Recent Articles from Daniel Leaderman
For rural populations, growing the workforce is key to improving health care
Rural areas throughout the United States often have trouble recruiting and retaining physicians due to their low populations. Opinions vary on whether Maryland has a true shortage of primary-care physicians of if they’re just not well-distributed; but the effect on residents of rural Maryland is the same – they may not find a doctor when […]
Q&A: LifeBridge’s Neil Meltzer
Neil Meltzer became president and CEO of LifeBridge Health in 2013, just as the Affordable Care Act was kicking in and a few months before Maryland changed its hospital payment system. The Daily Record recently spoke with Meltzer about the changes in health care since then and what patients can expect in the future. You […]
Baltimore to become case study in ‘urban manufacturing’
Conventional wisdom is that manufacturing vanished from Baltimore years ago, leaving a hole in the city’s economy that lingers to this day. But the growing number of makerspaces — many of which allow businesses and community members to use fabrication tools such as 3-D printers, cutters and other equipment — in the Baltimore area may […]
Dean of JHU Bloomberg school to step down next year
Michael J. Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will step down next year after 12 years at the helm to return to research and teaching. Klag, an expert in the epidemiology of major chronic diseases, will take a sabbatical beginning in July, then join the faculty of Bloomberg’s departments of […]
New P.G. hospital moves closer to approval
The proposed new Prince George’s Regional Medical Center earned the support of a crucial state regulator last week, moving the long-gestating project even closer to final approval. Commissioner Robert E. Moffit, who is reviewing the project for the Maryland Health Care Commission, recommended in a Sept. 30 letter that the panel approve the project’s application for a certificate o[...]
Feds: 31K Md. residents missing out on health tax credit
Millions of Americans buy their own health insurance but don’t use the marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act — potentially depriving them of tax credits that will make their coverage cheaper. In Maryland, 31,000 individually covered residents may be eligible for tax credits but aren’t getting them because they don’t buy their coverage through […]
NICU at P.G. Hospital Center re-opens after bacteria found
Nearly two months after three babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly tested positive for potentially fatal bacteria, the unit is once again providing care to very ill newborns as of Tuesday morning, officials announced. The Pseudomonas bacteria, which is found naturally in the environment and can cause […]
Evergreen Health co-op moves to become for-profit company
Maryland’s Evergreen Health, one of the few remaining non-profit health insurance co-ops created under the federal Affordable Care Act, is moving to become a for-profit company. Evergreen’s board of directors approved a bid — one of two submitted — for the co-op’s purchase and conversion to for-profit status Monday, said President and CEO Peter Beilenson. The plan must[...]
Sen. Bernie Sanders to speak at JHU in Nov.
Still feeling the Bern? Expect to be feeling the Bern even after Election Day? Have no fear. U.S. Senator and recent presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will speak at Johns Hopkins University Nov. 17, according to the university’s campus newspaper, The News-Letter. Sanders will speak as part of the undergraduate-run Milton S. Eisenhower […]
Baltimore area colleges share $750K grant to fight sexual assault
A $750,000 federal grant will help 10 Baltimore area colleges and universities beef up their response to — and efforts to prevent — sexual violence, officials announced Friday. The group of schools is known as the Baltimore Area Higher Education Coalition Against Sexual Violence. Loyola University Maryland is leading the partnership. Other members of the coalition […]
Baltimore scores $500K grant for hospitals to address violence
After Baltimore saw a record homicide rate in 2015 and a 75 percent increase in gun violence over the previous year, city health officials want to expand a successful violence-prevention program into area hospitals. A new $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will support that effort, allowing […]
At Beta City, Tissue Analytics, TopBox nab top prizes
At the first Beta City event a year ago, Sagamore Ventures’s City Garage facility in Port Covington was still very much a shell, empty but ready to become a hub for startup companies and light manufacturing. As the second Beta City celebration — a showcase of the region’s entrepreneurship and innovation community — got underway Thursday afternoon, it was clear things [&hellip[...]
