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Marylanders for Patient Rights
Maryland Patient’s Bill of Rights Law
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Declaración de derechos del paciente en español
Avoiding Disability-based Treatment Discrimination: Guidance Document Evaluation Framework
Supporting Groups
AARP Maryland
Alzheimer's Association of Maryland
American Association of University Women of Maryland
American Council of the Blind-Maryland
The Arc Maryland
CASA
Compassion and Choices
Disability Rights Maryland League of Women Voters of Maryland
Maryland Alliance for the Poor
Maryland Coalition of Families
Maryland Coalition on Mental Health and Aging
Maryland Continuing Care Residents’ Association
Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council
Maryland Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Advisory (PAIMI) Council
Maryland Retired School Personnel Association
Mental Health Association of Maryland
NAACP - Maryland
National Association of Social Workers - Maryland Chapter
Patient Safety America Pro-Choice Maryland
Support for Families of Nursing Home Residents
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of Maryland
United Seniors of Maryland
In the News
A Push to Reduce Hospital ERs Wait Times (AARP Bulletin 12/01/2024)
Commentary: How to fix Maryland’s long emergency room wait times (Maryland Matters 12/05/2024)
Globe Opinion: The hellscape of the emergency department (Boston Globe 08/19/2024)
Opinion: Seniors deserve to be safe. A lack of transparency stands in the way. (Washington Post 05/24/24)
Maryland nursing home patients allege years of neglect. Now they’re suing the state (Baltimore Banner 05/22/24)
Solving Maryland’s ER wait time crisis (WYPR On the Record 05/07/24)
Opinion: When Will Maryland get serious about reducing ER wait times (Baltimore Sun 04/26/2024)
Why the long wait? Report details issues behind ER wait times in Maryland (WJZ News 04/18/24)
‘A broken system’: Report identifies reasons behind long ER wait times in Maryland (Baltimore Sun 04/18/24)
Why private equity is investing in Maryland’s emergency departments (Baltimore Banner 04/16/2024)
How to fix Maryland’s ER wait times: Cut Executive salaries. A lot. (Baltimore Sun 02/12/2024)
Opinion: Why Maryland needs a new health care regulatory agency (Maryland Matters 12/13/2023)
Maryland hospitals must pay back millions to poor patients. First, they have to find them. (Baltimore Banner 12/18/2023)
Some of the longest emergency room wait times in Maryland can stretch almost a whole day (Maryland Matters 11/22/2023)
Dangerous missteps more than tripled over 3 years in Maryland hospitals (Washington Post 09/24/2023)
Billing for Patient Portal Messages Reduces Doc’s Workloads But May Increase Financial Toxicity for Cancer Patients (Cancer Therapy Advisor 09/01/2023)
Maryland's alarming ER wait times spark health board meeting in Prince George's County (Fox News Baltimore 07/17/2323)
Bill would look into why hospital hospital ER wait times are so long (WBAL 02/02/2023)
Maryland’s emergency room wait times the worst in the nation (Baltimore Banner 12/21/2022)
Opinion: How can we reduce ER wait times in Maryland hospitals? (Maryland Matters 12/08/2022)
Hopkins may leave CareFirst network, leaving patients in the lurch (Washington Post 09/19/2022)
Poor healthcare is not limited to D.C. (Washington Post 08/19/2022)
Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites (The Markup 06/16/2022)
With implicit bias hurting patients, some states including Maryland, train doctors (Maryland Matters, 04/25/2022)
As surprise billing ban nears, doctors and hospitals scramble to delay federal law (USA Today 12/11/2021)
Same hospitals, same surgeries, but worse outcomes for Black patients than white ones (Baltimore Sun, 07/01/2021)
Biden faces health industry fight over new ‘surprise’ billing ban (Politico, 04/23/2021)
Opinion: Why Patient Rights Matter in a Pandemic (Maryland Matters, 12/21/2020)
Baltimore-area hospitals begin to ease visitor restrictions amid coronavirus (Baltimore Sun, 08/19/2020)
Maryland significantly underreports total coronavirus cases and deaths at nursing homes (Baltimore Sun, 06/10/2020)
Opinion: COVID-19 and Nursing Homes — A Path Forward (Maryland Matters, 6/4/2020)
Under pressure, Maryland to post data on coronavirus at nursing homes, which account for most COVID-19 deaths in some counties (Baltimore Sun, 4/27/2020)
Reader Comentary: Hospital patients with disabilities have a right to treatment (Baltimore Sun, 4/24/2020)
Coronavirus cases at local nursing homes pass 2,000; families seek transparency (Washington Post, 4/24/2020)
Opinion: Maryland hospitals need to provide more patient-centric care (Maryland Matters, 1/21/2020)
The University of Maryland Medical System needs a cultural overhaul (Washington Post, 8/26/2019)
Full steam ahead on the Maryland Hospital Patient's Bill of Rights (Washington Post, 4/7/2019)
