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Christine Crabbs, director of community health for Luminis, has overseen mobile vaccine clinics like the one set up Friday in partnership with Whose House? God’s House, a collective of predominantly Black churches dedicated to increasing the vaccination rate in the county’s Black community.

It’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in Maryland. Local healthcare workers say these past 15 months have been an emotional whirlwind. TidalHealth Peninsula Regional was no exception to that. “The first three months were pretty challenging because we didn’t know what we had or what we were doing. We had a lot of folks passing and dying from the pandemic,” said Chief of the COVID-19 Response Team, Dr. Chris Snyder.

The hospital's CEO Sheldon Stein explained when the outpatient facility initially opened, MWPH was seeing about 5,000 outpatient visits per year. By the end of last year, the hospital's annual outpatient visits had surpassed 50,000. Stein said the hospital has long recognized that outpatient visits would continue to "take off" and that more care space would be needed to meet demand, but growth occurred even more quickly than expected.

Dr. Alexander Krupnick and his team from the University of Maryland Medical Center performed successful lung transplants on Micklus and another man.

The panelists – Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk, Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Dr. Mohan Suntha, and Brian Pieninck, CEO of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield – shared perspectives from all corners of Maryland’s health systems on centering health equity in state policies.

Miller is a language services advocate at Meritus. She said she's been working in the hospital's patient advocacy department for about 18 months. Much of her work involves translation services for those who do not speak English or have limited proficiency in the language.

Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker, a forensic pathologist, worked at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a hospital just outside the Baltimore city limits, and as an expert in courtrooms across the country. He opened the Rape Care Center within the hospital, a unit dedicated to doing better for the traumatized women who wound up there. He trained physicians on how to conduct respectful but meticulous exams and how to preserve the evidence of a possible crime.

Dr. Jill Biden was joined by Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday as the two paid a visit to a vaccination clinic at the Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

7News Anchor Adrianna Hopkins spoke with Dr. Lilia Mucka Andrew, a psychologist with Children’s National Hospital, who has seen her caseload increase exponentially.

The committee awarded Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the University of Maryland Medical System its 2021 Regional Visionary Award, citing their innovative and collaborative public health and medical work over the past year.