Medical Specialization

5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...

Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes

2013-05-18 12:11:54

Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...

Senior briefs

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Calendar These activities will be offered at the Annapolis Senior Activity Center, 119 S. Villa Ave. Information: 410-222-1818: Concert Charles Sullivan performs Broadway tunes, American Songbook standards, gospel and more at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, May...

Education briefs

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Internship program Anne Arundel Community College is seeking employers to participate in its internship program. Students get real-world experience and mentoring from leaders in business, industry, government and nonprofit agencies and organizations. For...

Construction contract awarded for new HCC nursing, allied health building

2013-05-14 15:35:13

Kinsley Construction Company of York, Pa., was recently selected as the builder of Harford Community College's new Nursing and Allied Health Building. Kinsley was selected for the $13.9 million contract after members of the HCC Board of Trustees reviewed...

Moms Pump Here: A resource for nursing moms

2013-05-15 12:58:00

Danielle's "gift" to me on Mother's Day weekend was calling it quits on nursing. Mornings were the final frontier and she politely declined me both mornings. (Sniff, sniff.) So, I guess I get my body back, and at least it happened gradually and...

New college grads face difficult job market

2013-05-10 16:26:00

Jackie Carter had it all mapped out. She would attend college year-round and graduate early, land a job in criminal justice, start paying off student loans, move into her own apartment and invest in her first smartphone. But the 22-year-old Towson...

Philip Nivatpumin named medical director of Kaufman Cancer Center at Upper Chesapeake

2013-05-13 11:31:46

Upper Chesapeake Health (UCH) is pleased to announce that it has named Dr. Philip Nivatpumin has been named by Upper Chesapeake Health as medical director of the UCH Patricia D. and M. Scot Kaufman Cancer Center. The Kaufman Cancer Center is currently...

HCC Towson Building groundbreaking May 30

2013-05-02 12:09:00

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held May 30 to celebrate the construction of Towson University's satellite classroom building at Harford Community College. The announcement comes about two weeks after the Maryland Board of Public Works approved a...

CareFirst commits $125,000 in HCC scholarships

2013-05-07 06:45:00

The region’s largest health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has committed $125,000 to Howard Community College for 50 scholarships over the next five years. The announcement came Friday, May 3, as CareFirst administrators and local...

Adam Thompson 5K Run/Walk at HCC raises $20,000

2013-04-29 06:33:00

More than 350 runners and walkers raised $20,000 Sunday to benefit the Adam Thompson Memorial Nursing Scholarship at Harford Community College and the Adam Thompson Memorial Education Scholarship at Upper Chesapeake Health. The Adam Thompson 5K Run/Walk...

HCC Awarded Grant by CareFirst

2013-05-06 06:05:15

Harford Community College has received a $25,000 grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield to support development of an electronic health records system that will bolster training of the institution's nearly 2,200 Nursing and Allied Health students....

Air transportation took on a new style in 1930 when the first stewardesses, dressed in uniforms resembling nurses' outfits, began serving passengers their meals with china dishware and silver coffee pots.

2013-05-16 10:21:00

She served as interim chief nursuing officer since last summer. Benjamin spent most of her nursing career at MacNeal.

2013-05-14 10:35:00

Dave Gendel, special projects manager at a nursing care management company, leads chants during a rally of nursing home workers at the James R. Thompson Center calling for an end to state cuts in Medicaid funding.

2013-05-13 00:00:00