Author: Carol Sorgen

For Jmore’s annual Innovations in Health Care issue, we take a look at what’s new and groundbreaking at some of the region’s top-ranked health care institutions. 

As part of the breast cancer team at LifeBridge Health, Dr. Michael Schultz and his son, plastic surgeon Dr. Benjamin Schultz, share a devotion to their patients and the community at large.

For individuals who suffer from atrial fibrillation (commonly referred to as AFib), a procedure known as Hybrid AF Convergent Therapy — performed at MedStar Health Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore — offers the opportunity to return to a more normal life.

Responding to the ever-increasing rise in drug overdoses — not only around the nation but throughout Maryland, including in Baltimore — Sheppard Pratt has established a new opioid treatment program.

The new 16-bed, state-of-the-art Children and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit at University of Maryland Children’s Hospital is the first in the state designed both architecturally and clinically to deliver “trauma-informed” care for children from ages 5 to 17.

At Mercy Medical Center, patients suffering from advanced stages of abdominal cancers, who might otherwise have limited hope for a solution, have treatment options that can improve their survival and quality of life.