MedStar Health News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) IDEA Lab, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and MedStar Health today are hosting “Making Health: An Interactive Celebration of How Tinkering, Technology and Design Tools Are Transforming Health Care”. 

“The vests are an investment in the safety and security of our dogs,” said MedStar Union Memorial Hospital’s Corporal Joel Schindler.

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.

Fifty middle-school girls from Washington, D.C., public and charter schools worked over two days to design mobile applications to help youth develop healthy habits and reduce stress during the first-ever DigiGirlz Health Hackathon in the D.C. region. 

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.