Here are this week’s top five most-clicked stories from MHA’s News Roundup newsletter.
Federal Changes to Medicaid, SNAP Will Cost Maryland $71 Million Over the Next Two Years
WYPR, by Scott Maucione
Maryland will need to spend more than $71 million over the next two years to meet SNAP and Medicaid requirements set out by the Trump administration’s 2025 tax and spending legislation, even though the law restricts the number of people on the rolls.
Bold Ideas to Reshape Healthcare from 51 Executives
Becker’s Hospital Review, by Mariah Muhammad
Kathy McCollum, President of UM BWMC, recently shared the Rapid Assessment Zone (RAZ) program, an innovative approach to emergency care in which emergency medicine physicians and advanced practice providers care for patients in specially designed pods outside of the main emergency department area. This means that not all patients have to wait to get a bed in the main area to be seen and helped.
The Choir Helping Stroke and Brain Injury Survivors Restore What Was Lost
The Washington Post, by Jasmine Golden
Patients say the ensemble, part of the neurologic music wellness program at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in D.C., helps bring harmony to their lives.
Children’s National, Poised for City Funding, Narrows Replacement Hospital Site Search to D.C.
Washington Business Journal, by Sara Gilgore
Children’s National Hospital has inked a one-year deal with the District in which it will commit to evaluating sites for a future replacement facility within the city. Children’s is seeking to build a new acute-care facility to replace its nearly 50-year-old building at 111 Michigan Ave. NW.
West Baltimore’s Edmondson Village Set for Revival Through New Partnership
The Baltimore Sun, by Karl Hille
After years of disinvestment, West Baltimore residents are seeing long-awaited revitalization at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center. A partnership of community investors, developers, businesses, and city and state funding is bringing new energy to the site, including an Ascension Saint Agnes clinic supported by Maryland’s AHEAD healthcare funding model.
Coverage also appeared on WBAL-TV, WMAR, and The Baltimore Times.
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