Sinai Hospital of Baltimore has been named one of the 50 Greenest Hospitals in America by Becker’s Hospital Review, a publication featuring business and legal news relating to hospitals.
Yassar Youssef, M.D., has become the first surgeon in Maryland to perform 100 da Vinci® Single-Site® procedures to remove the gallbladder.
Mark R. Katlic, M.D., chief of Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has been selected to receive a 2013 Innovator of the Year award from The Daily Record. He was recognized for his pioneering work as the director of the groundbreaking Sinai Center for Geriatric Surgery.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the country’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organization, has recognized Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Maryland as a 2013 “Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality.”
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore earns a three year echocardiography accreditation in the area of cardiac ultrasound from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. This vital test is part of the comprehensive care provided to patients receiving treatment at the Heart Center at Sinai.
Neil Meltzer begins his tenure as president and chief executive officer of LifeBridge Health, a regional health care organization in the Baltimore area with more than 7,000 employees and more than $1.2 billion in gross revenues.
Sally M. Pinkstaff, M.D., Ph.D., the director of the Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, is honored with a Compassionate Doctor of 2012 Award.
LifeBridge Health's Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute is the recepient of a Target: Stroke designation and two Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for its exceptional care for stroke patients.
The Diabetes Resource Center at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore has been awarded recertification by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Education Recognition program.
The Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute of LifeBridge Health launched the new Comprehensive Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Center, which provides the most advanced treatment options for rare tumors of the bone and soft tissue (fat, blood vessels, nerves, muscles, deep skin tissues and cartilage) in both adult and pediatric patients. The center offers a collaborative approach to care – working together with patients, their families and referring physicians.
Three LifeBridge Health centers have been given 2013 Partner for Change Awards from Practice Greenhealth for their dedication to environmental sustainability.
Michael Eastman, C.H.T, E.M.T., is a certified hyperbaric technologist and emergency medical technician.
Neil Meltzer, president and COO of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and senior vice president of LifeBridge Health, is selected again by the comptroller general of the United States to serve a second term on the U.S. Government Accountability Office's National Health Care Workforce Commission.
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, a LifeBridge Health center, is pleased to announce that Paul A. Gurbel, M.D., has been named to the 2013 Best Doctors in America® list. Only those doctors recognized to be in the top 3-5% of their specialty, from a list of 53,000 physicians, earn this honor.
Amy Perry has been named president of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and executive vice president of LifeBridge Health, Sinai’s parent company.
Michael A. Williams, M.D., medical director of The Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute at LifeBridge Health, is the editor of a landmark new book called “Practical Ethics in Clinical Neurology.”
The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the Maryland Association of Health Care Executives have honored Warren A. Green, president and CEO of LifeBridge Health, with the ACHE Regent’s Lifetime Service Award.
Yassar Youssef, M.D., is the first surgeon in Baltimore City to perform gallbladder surgery using just one incision and the da Vinci® Surgical System, leaving patients without a noticeable scar.
Sinai Hospital has opened the nation’s first surgical center devoted to the specific needs of older patients.
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore has opened its new Louis and Phyllis Friedman Neurological Rehabilitation Center to offer specialized rehabilitation services to adults with a brain injury, stroke or other neurological disorder.
The new Center for Memory & Behavioral Disorders at LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Maryland will offer a comprehensive evaluation by four specialists during a single visit in a single location that would normally require numerous doctors’ appointments on different days at different offices.
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore has been awarded an approximately $1 million grant by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) and NASA's Human Research Program to conduct a three-year project to help find answers to questions about astronaut health and performance on future deep-space exploration missions.
Albert J. Aboulafia, M.D., FACS, MBA, serves as the Director of Sarcoma Services at the Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute at Sinai Hospital. He is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in clinical and research aspects of the care, and treats adult and pediatric patients with benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumors.
The Levindale Auxiliary has dedicated a unique sensory garden to enrich the lives of residents, employees and visitors at this Baltimore nursing home by awakening their powers of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch in a peaceful setting.
Sinai Hospital has begun use of the Solitaire FR revascularization device, which provides life-saving interventional treatment for acute stroke patients.
Sinai Hospital opens human milk bank; becomes first hospital in Maryland to offer NICU babies a diet of 100 percent human breast milk.
Three LifeBridge Health centers have received Partner for Change Awards from Practice Greenhealth for their dedication to protecting and sustaining the environment.
The Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) chooses Rummana Aslam, M.D. and Levindale’s Treatment Team to share insight into their successful program designed to eliminate complications caused by chronic, non-healing wounds.
LifeBridge Health's Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute has been recognized as a Neuroscience Center of Excellence by NeuStrategy.
The Multiplier App, available on the Android, iPhone and iPad from Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD, can help predict a child's future mature height or bone length within seconds.
Carine Chen-McLaughlin, coordinator of Case Management Operations at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, will receive an award from the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
The new Herman & Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai will be dedicated on Thursday, March 1. The 23,200-square-foot facility features 26 all-private rooms that support the very heart of the family-centered care philosophy. This method of care embraces the family as an integral part of the child’s treatment and recovery. The family works alongside the clinical team to ensure the best outcomes for their sick child.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. However, calcium scoring can give you the winning edge. Michael Pressel, MD from the Heart Center at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore explains.
A revolutionary new limb lengthening system codeveloped by Shawn Standard, M.D., and John Herzenberg, M.D., orthopedic surgeons at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md., represents a major advancement in the treatment of limb deformities.
Adult children dread it and so do their elderly parents… the thought of a loved one living in a nursing home. Not anymore...new digs and new attitudes make Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital in Baltimore the place to be.
A popular treatment for multiple sclerosis needs to have proven results before it can be used as a standard of care, said LifeBridge Health neurologist Michael A. Williams.
The Metabolic Weight Loss Program at LifeBridge Health & Fitness near Baltimore, Md., can help a person shed pounds through knowledge of his or her metabolic rate.
The Infectious Disease Ambulatory Center (IDAC) at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore is a ray of hope for those who need information so they don’t contract the virus or the disease and for those who need to mange their conditions, if they are already infected.
Members of the European Association of Homes and Services for the Aging visit Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital in Baltimore Maryland to enhance the quality of life of elders around the world.
Brian M. White has been named president and chief operating officer of Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Md., part of LifeBridge Health.
Neurologist Michael A. Williams from Sinai Hospital in Baltimore gives expert insight into the importance of hydrocephalus treatment and research before a congressional caucus in Washington, D.C.
This is National Adult Day Services Week, and if you take care of an elderly loved one, it is a good time to see how adult day care centers can help your whole family.
Venus Williams has been one of the best tennis players in the world for more than a decade. However at the 2011 US Open, she couldn’t beat an opponent known as Sjogren syndrome. Laura, Green, MD, from the Krieger Eye Institute at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has a quick lesson on this condition.
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore has received a $1 million gift from the Moser Family Philanthropic Fund to support the hospital’s community outreach programs.
LifeBridge Health centers in Baltimore, Md., have begun using a new device that makes drawing blood and inserting IVs an easier experience for patients.
Dieting versus Eating Healthy You get back from a recent vacation feeling bloated due to overindulging on salt water taffy, ice cream, and french fries. You vow to start your diet tomorrow. Cabbage soup versus any of the current popular diets - which diet to choose? Listen to the dietitian – step away from the diet! All diets have one thing in common: they all end.
Kevin Crutchfield, M.D., is recognized as one of the country's leading experts on concussions and their effect on the brain.
While waiting for a new heart, a 52 year old Baltimore man can enjoy the little things in life thanks to a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). An LVAD is a mechanical heart, which is surgically attached to a patient’s own weak heart to help blood pump at a normal rate or take over the pumping completely.
Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Maryland, has earned a Silver Plus Performance Achievement Award from The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.
Northwest Hospital has opened and is operating its own retail pharmacy in the main lobby of the hospital off of Old Court Road in Randallstown. The LifeBridge Health Pharmacy at Northwest Hospital provides prescriptions to patients, their families, employees and residents in the community.
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