Tag: AAMC
AAMC Foundation Awards $75K In Support Of Nursing
At the Annual Nursing Celebration Dinner held May 9 at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), the AAMC Foundation awarded 14 scholarships totaling $70,000 to deserving AAMC nurses to further their education and careers. Scholarship recipients were selected based upon several criteria, including academic achievement, letters of recommendation, community involvement and financial need. The dinner celebrates [...]
Anne Arundel Medical Center Opens Hackerman-Patz House
Anne Arundel Medical Center’s (AAMC) Hackerman-Patz House is now welcoming patients and their families with a home away from home to rest, relax and regain strength while staying close to the hospital. The Hackerman-Patz House is made possible through a $2 million donation from Willard Hackerman, president and CEO of Whiting-Turner, and his wife, Lillian [...]
Save The Date For AAMC Gala
The Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) Foundation will host its signature fundraiser on Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore. Proceeds from this year’s gala will support the Geaton and JoAnn DeCesaris Cancer Institute and its critical role in serving those in the community that have [...]
AAMC Awarded Elite Distinction As 2012 Leapfrog Top Hospital
The Leapfrog Group’s annual list of Top Hospitals was recently announced in Baltimore, Maryland and included Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Maryland for the second consecutive year. Only two other hospitals in Maryland have the distinction of being a Top Hospital. The announcement came at Leapfrog’s Annual Meeting, focusing on transparency as the [...]
Community Comes Together To Help Those In Need
The generosity of the community was overwhelming this year as businesses and individuals made Thanksgiving very special for many in need in the Annapolis community. Light House: A Homeless Prevention Support Center, located on Hudson Street in Annapolis, received over 290 baskets with complete Thanksgiving meals and gift cards for local grocery stores. Baskets and [...]
AAMC Nurse Wins Sustainability Award
Charlotte Wallace, RN, a pediatric nurse and sustainability coordinator for Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), was awarded the Nursing Leadership in Environmental Health Award from the Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (MD H2E). Five Maryland hospitals and one nurse were honored for their environmental health achievements with awards at MD H2E’s fifth annual Environmental [...]
Anne Arundel Medical Center Receives Silver Medal Honor For Organ Donation Efforts
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) has been awarded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Silver Medal of Honor for achieving and sustaining national goals for organ donation. AAMC was one of five hospitals in Maryland and 237 nationwide to receive this award. The criteria for the award includes achieving a donation rate of [...]
AAMC Celebrates 10 Years Of Emergency Cardiac Intervention
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) is celebrating the tenth anniversary of a heart program that has saved more than 1,000 heart attack patients. The program is a partnership with local emergency medical services (EMS) and paramedics who perform electrocardiograms (EKG) in the field to determine whether a patient will benefit from emergency cardiac catherization to [...]
AAMC Foundation Names New Officers, Board Members for 2012-2013
The Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) Foundation Board of Directors has named new officers and five new members for the upcoming year. The new Foundation officers are: JoAnn DeCesaris, of the Geaton & JoAnn DeCesaris Family Foundation, chair; Theodore Pincus, executive vice president and CFO, FTI Consulting, Inc., (Retired), vice chair; Judy Zazulia Wahl, community [...]
Letter To The Editor: In Support Of Question 6
I write to you today from a 6th floor room at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC). On Monday, October 22nd, I was taken by ambulance from my home in Annapolis, MD to Anne Arundel Medical Center. I had passed out, become unresponsive, and was suffering from what Doctors would soon diagnose as a potentially fatal internal blood [...]
Anne Arundel Medical Center Recognized for Chest Pain Response
The golden hour of the time a patient with chest pain receives rapid diagnosis and treatment is the difference between life and death. Opening a patient’s artery with an angioplasty balloon 90 minutes after arrival is a standard quality indicator for hospitals nationally. At Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), the average “door to balloon” time [...]
Anne Arundel Diagnostics Imaging Unveils Latest MRI Technology
Anne Arundel Diagnostics Imaging (AADI), a subsidiary of Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), has added a state-of-the-art MAGNETOM Skyra 3T Open Bore MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) system to boost image clarity, exam speed and patient comfort. It is the only 3T MRI machine in Anne Arundel County. “With this new technology, we are seeing things [...]
AAMC Opens New Concussion Program
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) has opened the AAMC Concussion Program, designed to treat and screen for concussions in children and adolescents. Under the direction of Sarah Jamieson, M.D., the program will work with coaches, school officials, physicians and parents to diagnose and successfully treat patients with concussions from 5 to 17 years old. Concussions [...]
LEDO Pizza Fundraiser To Benefit AAMC
LEDO Pizza and Pasta has launched a key tag fundraiser to benefit the Pediatrics unit at Anne Arundel Medical Center on June 1. Select LEDO Pizza stores will be selling key tags that have 4 peel-off coupons, each valid for 1 free pizza topping. The key tags will be sold June 1 through June 30 [...]
AAMC Employee Wellness Movement Celebrates One Year
It’s been a year since Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) launched EnergizeSM, the innovative health and wellness program with a goal to improve employee health. Energize is part of AAMC’s 10-year strategic plan, Vision 2020: Living Healthier Together, which includes a call to action for the health system to serve as a community role model for [...]
AAMC’s Farmer’s Market Returns June 15th
Back by popular demand, Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) is bringing back its annual farmers market to the Annapolis campus at 2001 Medical Parkway in the Clatanoff Pavilion’s Garden Café. The market will be held every Friday between June 15 and August 31, from 10:30am to 1:30pm. Look for local, seasonal produce, flowers and plants, [...]
Anne Arundel Medical Center Recognizes The AAMC Auxiliary
As part of its celebration of National Volunteer Week, which took place April 15-21, Anne Arundel Medical Center proudly honored the hundreds of volunteers that make up the AAMC Auxiliary with the Auxiliary Annual Recognition Luncheon on Tuesday, April 17. National Volunteer Week was established to celebrate the profound impact volunteers make in their communities [...]
AAMC Breaks Ground On Hackerman-Patz House
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) has broken ground on construction of the Hackerman-Patz House, a home-like lodging facility on the AAMC campus. Meeting the needs of patients and their families traveling from far away to receive treatment, the building was made possible through the generosity of Willard Hackerman, president and CEO of Whiting Turner. The [...]
AAMC Foundation Plans Gala To Benefit AAMC Heart And Vascular Institute
Planning is underway for the 2012 Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) Foundation Gala on Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 12:00 Midnight at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore. The theme for this year’s signature event is “Rhythm & Rouge,” and proceeds will support the national-award winning AAMC Heart and Vascular Institute. The [...]
docsTALK: Keeping Your Heart Healthy
In celebration of heart month, our hosts Briana Walton, M.D. and John Martin, M.D. are taking on a battle of epic proportions: the battle of the sexes. Learn the difference between men and women’s heart attack warning signs in this live discussion, with special guests Stephanie Jacobs, M.D. and Kofi Essandoh, M.D. Talk to our [...]
Power To The Pelvis
LADIES NIGHT: POWER TO THE PELVIS JANUARY 26, 2012, 6pm AAMC Health Sciences Pavilion, 7th Floor, Doordan Institute Join Drs. Briana Walton and John Martin for this January episode of our new educational series. They will be chatting with special guest guests about women’s topics, ranging from common gynecological problems, incontinence, pelvic pain and fibroids. Special guests are [...]
Calling All Angels
Linda McCarthy, Visual Concepts Photography is looking for baby models ages 0 – 36 months to be considered for the 2013 L’il Angel Calendar. The “L’il Angels” sessions and calendar sales raise funds for the AAMC Mother/Baby Unit and NICU. No experience necessary…just lots of smiles and giggles! Sessions will be held on the following [...]
