MedStar Health News

Barbara S. Bregman, PhD, senior research scientist and director of education and training with MedStar NRH Research Division, and a professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Center for Brain Plasticity at Georgetown University, is the recipient of the 28th Annual John W. Goldschmidt Award.

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has been honored with the 2016 “Partner for Change” award.

The hospital brought home two awards from the Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence Awards.

The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring that stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

This is the fourth consecutive year the hospital has been recognized for its commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients, their families, and associates.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center medical intensive care unit 2G achieved an impressive milestone on March 18 (and counting): two years without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), a huge accomplishment for an ICU.