Tag: Patient
Dogwood Acres Selects Hospice For Caring Canines Program
The canines at Dogwood Acres Pet Retreat of Davidsonville have a new Caring Canines program to bark about with seven certified pet therapy teams to enrich the lives of those in the community who are suffering. The pet retreat has partnered with three area nonprofits including Hospice of the Chesapeake , where they are forming [...]
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 [...]
Hospice Of The Chesapeake To Celebrate Volunteers
National Volunteer Week is April 21 – 27, 2013 and Hospice of the Chesapeake is honoring its core of dedicated volunteers who provide support, companionship and dignity to members of the community facing serious and life-limiting illness. “We could not do the work we do without the gifts of time and talent from our hospice [...]
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 [...]
Bladeless Laser Cataract Surgery Now Available In Anne Arundel
Two Annapolis surgeons, Dr. Maria Scott and Dr. Heather Nesti of Chesapeake Eye Care & Laser Center, are the first doctors in Anne Arundel County to offer patients bladeless Laser cataract surgery. Leading cataract surgeons around the world consider this advanced procedure the wave of the future. Based on the same technology used for bladeless [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pathways Drug & Substance Abuse Center Celebrating 20th Anniversary
Pathways Drug & Substance Abuse Center located in Annapolis, Maryland, is celebrating 20 years of providing inpatient and outpatient alcohol and drug treatment programs for adolescents and adults with a substance use disorder. “Since 1992, our dedicated professional staff has provided thousands of patients with compassionate care and ongoing support to enable a path to [...]
Local Addiction Recovery Program Announces Expansion
In celebration of over 40 years of service, the Samaritan House, a residential care facility for men suffering from alcohol and drug addiction, is launching a “Campus of Recovery” campaign to raise funds for expansion. The $600,000 expansion plans include the construction of an additional dormitory and space for out-patient counseling and support programs, establishing [...]
Righttime Medical Care Redesigns Annapolis Office
Righttime Medical Care has opened its newly expanded Annapolis Care Center at 2114 General’s Highway. Located across from Westfield Annapolis Mall, the Care Center has been extensively renovated to double its original size. The redesign allows providers a more efficient space to care for patients with resources that include an orthopedic room with a mini [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
