Springwell, a senior living community located in Baltimore’s Mt. Washington neighborhood, will join LifeBridge Health in a partnership agreement that became official on February 27, 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 2015 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model that show physicians, hospitals and health care providers participating in Accountable Care Organizations continue to make significant improvements in the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries, while achieving cost savings.
The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) has certified the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore as a Level 4 center, its highest designation.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Sinai Hospital of Baltimore as one of the country’s best hospitals in neurology and neurosurgery (#36 in the top 50) as well as “high performing” in four other medical specialties for 2016-2017.
Sinai Hospital has opened the first hospital-based bioincubator in a Maryland hospital. Start-up companies in the biotechnology and life sciences have space in a state-of-the-art center at Sinai for research and access to medical experts.
The LifeBridge Health Cardiovascular Institute has launched a pilot study to evaluate the potential benefits of a wireless heart monitoring system for patients with moderate to severe heart failure. The system tracks weight, blood pressure and other measures, and automatically sends the information to doctors and staff at the Cardiovascular Institute. The study is looking at whether this approach, designed to be simple and easy-to-use, can result in better outcomes for patients with heart failure.
There are many things you can do to lower your heart disease risks. This article from cardiologist Dr. Mauro Moscucci of LifeBridge Health looks at the seven modifiable risk factors (according the the American Heart Association) and the one most of us struggle with.
It's like Open Table for your doctor's office. The Everseat app offers a convenient way for patients to schedule a doctor's appointment on their phone. LifeBridge Health in Maryland is expanding the use of app in its practices while working with Everseat on a potential doctor-to-doctor app.
Kenneth Miller, M.D., co-authors a book exploring why and how cancer is treated differently around the world and how those differences affect outcomes.
With the mega-excitement about women's soccer, lots of little girls may now want to play soccer. Kevin Crutchfield, M.D., from LifeBridge Health shares insight about the risks of concussions and things parents should consider before deciding if their kids will play.
Outpatient Treatment May Help Patients Whose Cancer Has Spread to the Spine with their pain and quality of life
Thanks to Bank of America’s generosity, deserving people receive expert help with job and life skills at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital.
Mauro M. Moscucci, M.D., M.B.A., the medical director of the LifeBridge Health Cardiovascular Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, authors an editorial comment concerning a study about how public reporting can influence when angioplasties are performed.
Five major independent Maryland-based health systems with a combined total of ten hospitals have formalized an agreement to create the Advanced Health Collaborative, LLC, (AHC) an organization that will offer its members the ability, without merger, to share ideas and explore opportunities to enhance the quality of health care, reduce costs and improve the health of people in the State of Maryland – a concept known as the “Triple Aim.”
Post-Acute Physician Partners, LLC (PAPP) is a new enterprise that will focus on delivering quality care for patients after a hospital stay.
LifeBridge Health selects Mauro Moscucci, M.D., M.B.A., as Sinai Hospital’s chief of medicine and the medical director of the LifeBridge Health Cardiovascular Institute.
LifeBridge Health recognizes philanthropist, Lowell Glazer, for his remarkable generosity.
The boards of Carroll Hospital Center and LifeBridge Health have approved a letter of intent to form a partnership.
Sinai and Northwest hospitals are recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as leaders with the equal treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients and employees.
The Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics named Dana Silver, M.D., from the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai, the Pediatrician of the Year. She is a leader on issues supporting mothers who breastfeed.
David Shegan, the director of VSP of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, recently received a Baltimore Workforce Investment Board Business Award for Workforce Development Excellence on behalf of his staff. VSP was selected in the category of Preparing the Future Workforce for hiring, providing internships and mentoring Baltimore City young people between the ages of 14 and 21. Shegan received the honor from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
LifeBridge Health and Potomac Physicians, P.A., widen their network of doctors and convenient care with two new offices in Baltimore County.
Christopher Kwon, M.D., has been named the division head of cardiac surgery at the LifeBridge Health Cardiovascular Institute.
Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital is the recipient of a $15,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to support the facility’s Workforce Development career coach specialist.
The Daily Record has named John Herzenberg, M.D., and Shawn Standard, M.D., from the LifeBridge Health Rubin Institute of Advanced Orthopedics, as 2014 Innovators of the Year. They were part of the team that developed PRECICE 2, the second generation of the PRECICE™ Limb Lengthening System.
The Sinai Rehabilitation Center and the Comprehensive Sports Concussion Program at the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute have announced their fall conferences, both of which will focus on concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries.
Baltimore, MD – Sinai Hospital and HealthCare Access Maryland are piloting an innovative program to proactively help patients, who frequent the hospital’s Emergency Department for non-urgent and chronic health conditions, better manage their own care, lead healthier lives and save health resources.
The Gold Heart Award, the American Heart Association’s highest national recognition for volunteerism, was presented to Neil Meltzer, M.P.H., president and CEO of LifeBridge Health, for his two decades of exceptional leadership and advocacy. Only two people in the country were selected for 2014
Three-dimensional mammography, one of the biggest breakthroughs in the early detection of breast cancer, is now being use at Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center in Baltimore, MD. It makes screening for and diagnosing the disease faster and more exact than in the past.
Sinai Hospital endocrinologist, Henry G. Fein, M.D.’s, new research shows that patients with Cushing’s syndrome, a disease that can lead to extreme weight gain, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and psychological issues, experienced significant, sustained weight loss while taking oral medication daily.
LifeBridge Health, one of the largest and most comprehensive health care providers in Maryland, has been selected by CareerSTAT as a 2014 “Frontline Healthcare Worker Champion.” Only nine employers in the United States were recognized with this honor
Ali Tabrizchi, D.O., a clinical interventional cardiologist at the LifeBridge Health Cardiovascular Institute, has been recognized as one of Vitals 2013 Most Compassionate Doctors for the third time in three years.
The Division of Robotic Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore has been designated a da Vinci® General Surgery Epicenter Program by Intuitive Surgical, the maker of the robotic system, becoming one of fewer than 20 epicenters of this kind in the United States.
The 10th anniversary celebration of the Hackerman-Patz House at Sinai Hospital was an evening filled with joy, memories and a look toward the future.
Oscar Taube, M.D., director of Pediatric Outpatient department and coordinator of Adolescent Medicine at the Samuleson Children’s Hospital at Sinai, is awarded an American Academy of Pediatrics grant to help adolescents and their families make a smooth transition from pediatric to adult medical care
HeadFirst Sports Injury and Concussion Care, a program of Maryland-based Righttime Medical Care, is providing an educational grant to support a continuing medical education program for certified athletic trainers developed by the LifeBridge Health Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute.
Surgeons at LifeBridge Health’s Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics perform 1st surgery in N. America earlier this year using 2nd generation of the PRECICE™ Limb Lengthening System. John Herzenberg, M.D. and Shawn Standard, M.D. inserted a P2 rod into the tibia of a patient at Sinai Hospital.
LifeBridge Health proudly announces Laura B. Black, president of LCB Ventures, LLC and entrepreneur of B&N Ventures, LLC, and Brian J. Gibbons, chairman and chief executive of Greenberg Gibbons Commercial Corporation as chairs of the 2014 Magic of Life Gala. This event, held April 5 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, benefits patient services.
Barry Jay Eisenberg, FACHE, LNHA, is the new executive director and chief operating officer of Post-Acute Services at LifeBridge Health. The division is made up of 440 beds at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, Northwest Hospital and Courtland Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
LifeBridge Health & Fitness launches a nutrition counseling program that doesn't just talk the talk, but walks participants into the grocery store to show them how to shop for healthy food and then walks them into their homes to teach them how to cook delicious and nutritious meals.
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has redesignated Sinai Hospital of Baltimore as a Magnet®-recognized hospital, a distinction that honors nursing excellence in patient care, leadership and growth opportunities for nurses within a health care organization.
Scientists at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and doctors at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore have found that restoring the normal, helpful bacteria of the gut and intestines may treat patients suffering from recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.
Dallas, TX – Researchers from the Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research presented findings from a Phase 2a trial substudy that examined the antiplatelet effects of CSL112, a novel apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) infusion therapy, at the American Heart Association 2013 Scientific Sessions.
In the wake of the just released news that ABC News correspondent Amy Robach has been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 40, Deb Kirkland officers insight into the physical ramifications and emotional trauma of a breast cancer diagnosis for young women and hope for the future.
Ali Tabrizchi, D.O., a clinical interventional cardiologist at the Heart Center at Sinai, has been named one of Baltimore magazine’s 2013 Top Doctors. Tabrizchi is the only cardiologist practicing in Harford County to be chosen for this honor.
Philanthropists, Roslyn and Leonard Stoler, have given a multi-million dollar gift to Sinai Hospital of Baltimore to name the south tower in the main hospital.
Leon Reinstein, M.D., received the Frank H. Krusen, M.D., Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for his contributions to the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
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