Talks between state and federal health officials about changing hospital reimbursement rates under Maryland’s unique Medicare waiver have emerged as a central factor in the University of Maryland Medical System’s ongoing bid to acquire the struggling St. Joseph Medical Center.

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A few government and politics headlines for Tuesday morning.

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Labor union officials have been given access to the University of Maryland Medical Center campus for the next 90 days so they may attempt to enlist hospital employees into the local Service Employees International Union.

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The University of Maryland Medical Center says a Virginia man who received a full-face transplant seven months ago eats primarily by mouth and can taste and smell. Thirty-seven-year-old Richard Lee Norris of Hillsville, Va. received the transplantin a 36-hour surgery ...

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A 17-year-old student shot on the first day of school in Baltimore County headed home Monday after two weeks in the hospital with firm plans to play with his dog and make tacos. Daniel Borowy, who has Down syndrome, was ...

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Johns Hopkins Hospital says it will begin performing facial transplants. The Baltimore hospital announced Wednesday that a university review board has given approval to allow a transplant team to begin accepting patients. The team will be led by Dr. W.P. ...

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The Prince George’s County Health System is growing closer to an affiliation with the University of Maryland Medical System after a recent emergency room management takeover, but an official agreement for UMMS to absorb the county’s hospitals has not been ...

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Blair Eig, Lisa Rowen, Sister Helen Amos, Cliff Stewart and Eric R. Wagner were elected to the Maryland Hospital Association’s Executive Committee in June. Eig, M.D., senior vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer at Holy Cross Hospital, ...

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A U.S. District Court jury in Baltimore has awarded $1.5 million to a 38-year-old man whose genitals were mutilated by a flesh-eating bacteria that went untreated for 58.5 hours due to a misdiagnosis in a Harford County hospital. Wednesday’s award ...

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Susan G. Dorsey, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been appointed associate dean for research at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. An associate professor and a member of the faculty since 2004, she had served as interim associate dean for ...

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