Franklin Square Medical Center

Angelina Jolie among growing number of women choosing mastectomy before cancer

2013-05-14 16:57:00

Actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy rather than risk developing breast cancer hit close to home for Melissa DeSantis, a Bel Air mother of three children. As DeSantis read about Jolie's experience, she began to feel a sense of...

Eleanor E. Jaeger, homemaker

2013-04-11 13:23:00

Eleanor E. Jaeger, a homemaker and former department store sales associate who was a longtime active church member, died Sunday of complications from a broken hip at the Knollwood Nursing Home in Millersville. The Annapolis resident was 99. The...

Keep babies safe, not just stylish

2013-03-14 11:15:00

The recent feature article regarding nurseries ("Making rooms for baby," March 10) provides nice design advice, but it fails to provide safe advice for a sleeping newborn. Many of the photographs in the article highlight unsafe cribs. In the Baltimore...

Harford man commits suicide during highway stop by state trooper

2013-03-07 15:54:21

Minutes after being pulled over by a state trooper on the side of Interstate 95 in White Marsh this week, 23-year-old Bel Air resident Scott Kampes was slumped over in the driver's seat of the car he was driving — fatally wounded from a self-...

Wedded: Annie Balcerzak and Tom Molloy

2013-02-01 13:33:00

Wedding date: Dec. 29, 2012 Her story: Annie Balczerak, 31, grew up near Hunt Valley. She is a real estate agent at Prudential Home Sale WGC Realty in Baltimore. Her father, Edwin, is a retired pharmacist. Her mother, Patricia, is a retired...

Hospitals seeing large number of patients with flu symptoms

2013-01-03 17:38:00

Area hospitals are coping with a surge of patients with achy bodies, fevers and sore throats as the nation grapples with a flu season that has hit earlier and harder than usual. The flu virus is unpredictable, so no one knows when the outbreak will...

Pediatricians applaud Obama effort to reduce gun violence

2013-01-20 08:00:00

Maryland's pediatricians applaud President Barack Obama for his leadership in the wake of the gun violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. ("Obama pledges fight for gun laws," Jan. 17). The president's federal policy recommendations...

MedStar to open medical campus in Bel Air

2012-12-17 17:06:16

MedStar Health plans to build a $30 million medical plaza in Bel Air as it tries to capitalize on the area's growing population, company officials said Monday. The hospital operator also said it plans to expand the neonatal intensive care unit at its...

Man shot multiple times in Middle River

2012-12-12 19:44:00

A man was shot multiple times in Middle River on Wednesday evening, according to Baltimore County police and fire dispatchers. Police received a call about 6:58 p.m. from Franklin Square Hospital Center reporting a man with multiple gunshot wounds had...

Harvey G. Alexander

2012-11-30 15:04:00

Harvey G. Alexander, who founded and served as executive director of the Baltimore Film Festival and also read poetry on WBJC-FM, died Nov. 23 of pulmonary edema at Franklin Square Medical Center. He was 77. "I first got to know him in 1964 at Martick'...

Dr. Philip J. Ferris, Franklin Square surgery chairman

2012-11-22 13:47:18

Dr. Philip J. Ferris, former longtime chairman of the department of surgery at Franklin Square Medical Center, died Nov. 8 of cardiac arrest at his Lutherville home. He was 79. "He was just a great man. He was down-to-earth and fun, but at the same...

New pipes installed at two water main break sites

2012-11-13 18:45:00

City work crews have located, removed and replaced the old pipe that ruptured Monday and sent water cascading through several downtown streets, fully restoring service to the affected neighborhood. By 9 a.m. Tuesday, a new 30-inch main had been...

A building rises on the campus of Franklin Square Medical Center in 2009. Among four Baltimore County hospitals, Franklin Square reported the lowest land value in its filings with the IRS. The hospital's actual buildings fared better, valued second only to those at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

2013-01-15 00:00:00

Franklin Square Hospital Center in Rosedale is the county's fourth-largest employer, with about 3,500 workers.

2010-11-30 00:00:00

Kenneth Allen Maylath, a veteran Baltimore broadcaster who had been host of "Conference Call" on WFBR-AM and was later news director at WCBM-AM, died of sepsis at Franklin Square Hospital Center . The longtime Parkville resident was 75. Above, Ken Maylath at the WCBM Studios in 1995.

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