Tag: Hospital
AAMC Opens Patient Centered Geriatric Unit
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) recently opened its Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) unit. The ACE unit offers a specialized model of care for older, hospitalized patients with acute illness. The 30-bed unit is one of 13 in Maryland. “Many times, highly functioning older adults are admitted to a hospital for a few days [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AAMC Spine Center Recognized
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) was recently recognized with an Excellence through Insight award for “Highest Community Perception of Quality” by HealthStream. In addition, AAMC’s Spine Center was recognized for their overall inpatient satisfaction score. AAMC was awarded for making the commitment to measure and improve its brand and perception in the marketplace. Measuring consumer [...]
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 [...]
Odenton Man Dies After Strange Incident
On April 13th, 2012 at approximately 1950hrs, a patrol sergeant from the Western District was traveling in the area of Piney Orchard Parkway and Odenton Road when she observed a Black Jeep Cherokee in the southbound lane of Piney Orchard Parkway, stopped with the vehicles hazard lights flashing. In an attempt to determine if the [...]
AAMC Community Health Center Celebrates One Year Of Service
The AAMC Community Health Center has celebrated its first anniversary. Providing low cost family medical care to the community, the AAMC Community Health Center, operated by Anne Arundel Medical Center, is a doctor’s office that cares for adults, seniors, children, and newborns who have difficulty paying fees at other offices. In its first year of [...]
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 [...]
First Baby Of The New Year
While many of us were out celebrating last night, one family was busy bringing the first baby of 2012 to the Anne Arundel Medical Center The first baby delivered in 2012 is a baby boy, Senna Wilson Peria, son of Jodi Hickman and Sean Peria of Annapolis, MD. He was delivered at 12:37 a.m. on [...]
