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UM BWMC Named Circle of Honor Winner for Maryland Patient Safety Center’s 2022 Minogue Awards for Patient Safety Innovation

January 27, 2022
The University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center has been named a Circle of Honor winner in the Maryland Patient Safety Center's 2022 Minogue Awards for Patient Safety Innovation. The award-winning program, "Stroke 'SWARM' Process," streamlines the process for giving clot-busting drug therapy to stroke patients within 30 minutes of arrival to the hospital.

UM BWMC Moves to Crisis Standards of Care

December 27, 2021
As of December 27, 2021, UM BWMC has taken the unprecedented step for our organization of declaring a hospital disaster and implementing Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) protocols.