Bill McCarthy, executive director of Catholic Charities of Baltimore, has called St. Joseph Medical Center’s campaign to adopt 47 needy families "unbelievable and unprecedented."
“Our staff at St. Joseph Medical Center has been particularly moved by this experience. Employees have had shopping and wrapping parties. Their children have even participated. Some have told me that it was an eye-opener for their kids to appreciate that some of the Adopt-a- Family kids were asking for things like, a big box of snacks,”’" says Susanne DeCrane, VP of Mission Integration at St. Joseph Medical Center.
During Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center launched a pilot yoga program for breast cancer survivors that will continue this winter and spring. Class is open to any breast cancer survivor.
St. Joseph Medical Center has been rated the highest of any Maryland hospital for maternity patient satisfaction according to the Maryland Hospital Performance Evaluation Guide on Maryland Health Care Commission web site.
St. Joseph Medical Center received a rating of 9 or 10 (the highest) from 82 percent of its maternity patients. The next highest rating was for a hospital in Montgomery County, Maryland with 80 percent.
In response to the question as to whether patients would recommend their hospital, St. Joseph tied for first place with 86 percent of patients saying yes.