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Sheppard Pratt Health System, based in Towson, is Maryland's largest provider of mental health and special education services.
Sheppard Pratt Health System, based in Towson, is Maryland's largest provider of mental health and special education services.
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Sheppard Pratt gatehouse gets a makeover
The whimsical building entered into local legend as the gingerbread home of Hansel and Gretel. The Sheppard Pratt gatehouse is so firmly established as a beloved Baltimore landmark that you almost expect merry gnomes to appear at its slender windows. It's...
Tags: Charles Street, Baltimore County, Hospitals and Clinics, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Alzheimer's Disease
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: Nora Roberts, Wallis Simpson, Johns Hopkins University, John Ward, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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Dr. Paul Lietman
Dr. Paul S. Lietman, a retired Johns Hopkins professor of medicine, pharmacology, molecular sciences and pediatrics, died of congestive heart failure April 20 at his Ruxton home. He was 79. "He was a gifted educator and was beloved by generations of...
Tags: Orthopedic Surgery, Teaching and Learning, Pharmacology, Trinidad and Tobago, Family
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Alzheimer's support group meets second Thursday of the month
These groups meet regularly. Adolescents Who Have Lost a Loved One to Suicide — Mondays, April 8, 15, 22 and 29, 7 p.m. Grassroots Crisis Intervention is hosting a four-week support and education group for adolescents who have lost a loved one to...Tags: Minority Groups, Clarksville, Howard County General Hospital, Polio, Ellicott City
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Planners begin countywide zoning review
The patch of green on Montgomery Road across from the Long Gate Shopping Center in Ellicott City stands out amid the asphalt, stores and homes. Behind a few small wood-frame houses and garages, these nearly eight acres could almost be a suburban park,...Tags: Clarksville, Ellicott City, Nursing Homes, Hospitals and Clinics, Joint Ventures
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Mental illness and guns: the issue is suicide
Some years ago, I was called by one of my patients who had just suffered severe rejection in a love relationship. She told me that she was on her way to buy a gun but thought she might call me first. I suggested that she come see me before she purchased a...
Tags: Interior Policy, Suicidal Behavior, Politics, Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions
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Help is available for college students struggling with mental illness
As someone who has struggled with mental illness for over 20 years, I could closely relate to Kevin Rector's article about students having difficulty finding and getting mental health services at their colleges and universities ("Students struggle for...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Health, Mental Illness, Colleges and Universities, Behavioral Conditions
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No bond for Glen Burnie man accused of trespassing at North County High
A 25-year-old man arrested for trespassing in North County High School this month — and who was found to have a number of legal, high-powered weapons in his home — has been ordered held without bond. Justin Matthew Beaumont, of Glen Burnie,...Tags: Firearms, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Glen Burnie
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Michelle LeM. Flesher, artist
Michelle LeM. Flesher, a retired Towson artist who had been an art restorer and therapist, died Feb. 14 of heart failure at St. Elizabeth Hall Apartments at Stella Maris in Timonium. She was 87.
Born Michelle LeMay in Saginaw, Mich., she moved with her...Tags: Towson, France, Heart Failure, Arts, Hampden
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Legislation would require participation in psychiatric bed registry
A Baltimore lawmaker plans to introduce legislation that would require all Maryland hospitals to participate in an online psychiatric bed registry meant to expedite care for the mentally ill. Del. Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg said the registry can help...
Tags: Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Ellicott City, Hospitals and Clinics, Northwest Hospital, Psychiatry
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Man allegedly trespassed at school, had high-powered guns at home
Anne Arundel County police found a stash of high-powered weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and an Uzi carbine, at the home of a 25-year-old man who they said entered North County High School in Glen Burnie through a back door. Police said...
Tags: Judges, Teaching and Learning, Firearms, Trials, Hospitals and Clinics
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Gilded Age for sale: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Baltimore house
If you want a taste of the Gilded Age, just plunk down $450,000, the asking price for a Baltimore townhouse once owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author who gave us "The Great Gatsby" and other classics lived in Towson and Baltimore while wife Zelda...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Bolton Hill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, Hospitals and Clinics
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