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Owings Mills-based Amatus Health opened an Awakenings Recovery Center in Hagerstown May 9, a 51-bed drug treatment facility that will work with Maryland residents with medicaid. The facility at 111 S. Potomac St. is Amatus Health’s third in Maryland.  

The Alliance for Workplace Excellence (AWE) has awarded Silver Spring-based Holy Cross Health the 2019 Workplace Excellence Seal of Approval for the 20th year, the only health care provider in Maryland to achieve the distinction every year since 1999. Holy Cross Health, one of the ...

Howard Hospital Foundation, which provides philanthropic support to Howard County General Hospital, received a $1 million donation Thursday from The Kahlert Foundation, a Sykesville-based private family foundation to support the hospital’s campus construction project. The Kahlert Foundation previously gave their ...

Kennedy Krieger Institute, a nonprofit organization which improves the lives of children and adolescents with disorders and injuries of the brain, spinal cord and musculoskeletal system, raised more than $100,000 at the 15th annual ROAR for Kids event April 27 ...

Howard County General Hospital: A Member of Johns Hopkins Medicine announced Wednesdsay  Jennifer Giampalmo from Glenelg High School and Joshua Bradford from Reservoir High School were given the 2019 Aronson/Willis Memorial Award. Each student was awarded a $2,000 scholarship and ...

Anne Arundel Medical Center and Doctors Community Health System plan to merge this summer, the systems announced Monday. The plan would bring together the Annapolis-based Anne Arundel Medical Center and the Lanham-based Doctors Community Hospital under a system with a ...

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Carriers in Maryland’s individual health market have requested average rate decreases for the second straight year, signaling that after several years of steep rate increases a reinsurance program has stabilized the market. Last year, carriers initially requested large increases. However, ...

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In 2018, 2,114 people died in opioid-related deaths in Maryland, up from the 2009 fatalities in 2017. It was the eighth straight year opioid-related deaths increased, according to preliminary data released by the state. Most of the growth in opioid-related ...

Stephen Burch, Kevin O’Connor and Dr. Scott Rifkin have resigned from the University of Maryland Medical System’s board as it continues reform efforts in the wake of controversy over corporate contracts to members of the board. Burch, the board’s chair, ...

The University of Maryland, Baltimore would become the first university in the country to offer a graduate degree in cannabis therapeutics under a proposal granted preliminary approval Tuesday by a committee of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents. ...

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