To move vascular procedures out of expensive hospitals, the government turbocharged payments to doctors’ offices. Instead of saving money, it started a boom that is making doctors rich and putting patients in danger.
The University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center is set to open June 4, with a $70 million project offering a full emergency department, surgery and more.
It’s been a long time coming, but on Wednesday the ribbon was cut on one of the region’s newest health care facilities the University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center.
The new University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center is poised to open early next month to serve Laurel’s 30,000-some residents and their neighbors with emergency, preventative and behavioral health care, as well as some specialty procedures, but only on an outpatient basis.
Joan Selma Hult, a legend in women’s intercollegiate sports and a University of Maryland, College Park professor emerita, died Aug. 15 at the University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center. She was 89.