Maryland ranks 19th in the United States for how girls are faring in key social, economic and health issues affecting the 479,066 girls ages 5 to 17 in the state, according to data compiled by the Girl Scout Research Institute. Maryland ...

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The National Committee for Quality Assurance ranked Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States the No. 1 health plan in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.  The NCQA Health Insurance Plan Rankings assess 507 health plans nationally. The rankings data ...

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Overall, Maryland is the 10th best state for nurses, according to a report released Tuesday, even though the average annual salary here is well below average.

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Maryland’s medical liability environment is the most significant issue affecting residents’ access to emergency-room care, according to a report released Thursday by the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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Maryland has lots of room to move up in rankings.

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Marriott Rewards, the guest loyalty program of Bethesda-based Marriott International Inc., has been named the top hotel loyalty program by U.S. News & World Report in a recent survey of hotel and airline frequent travel programs.

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SECU, Maryland’s largest state-chartered financial cooperative, has again been named one of the Top 300 First Mortgage Granting Credit Unions in the country, according to an annual survey conducted by the American Credit Union Mortgage Association.

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The Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick metropolitan area has been ranked as the most secure among large metro areas in the country by the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, topping a list of 20 metropolitan areas ranked on the basis of safety and security.

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Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management has been ranked as the 53rd top business school in the nation in Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2013,” up nine spots from last year.

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Maryland is the top state for innovation and entrepreneurship, according to recent rankings by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, however, commercialization of these ideas is still lacking. “Given the amount of research that occurs here … we haven’t been in ...

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