Sinai Hospital – Sandy Rosenberg

From the start

November 13, 2020 | by delsandy | Uncategorized | No Comments

Growing up I spent some time at Pimlico Race Track, but I was born at Sinai Hospital.

Not at the Sinai that neighbors the track, but when it was located on Wolfe Street on what is now the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus.

I made note of this when I spoke yesterday at the first groundbreaking on the Pimlico-Sinai redevelopment site.

The hospital bought the eastern end of the track property several years ago. It’s a parking lot for hospital employees 363 days of the year. Preakness Weekend it’s still for racing fans.

The Center for Hope will be the first new structure on this site. It will provide intervention and prevention for child abuse, domestic violence, and community violence.

It’s a major step forward for all of the communities that neighbor Sinai and Pimlico Race Track.

Win-wins at Pimlico

February 28, 2013 | by delsandy | featured, Sandy's 2013 Legislative Diary | No Comments

All parking is local.

For the last ten years, approximately 1,000 employees of Sinai Hospital and the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital have parked on the Preakness Way lot of the Pimlico Race Course – except on Preakness Day.

They are a short walk or shuttle ride from their jobs.

And they are not parking in the nearby residential neighborhoods of Cylburn, Sunset, and Levindale.

A win-win for everybody.

Pimlico needs to construct 300 stables when the Bowie training facility closes, as well as housing for backstretch employees.

Four weeks ago, the track submitted a preliminary construction plan with the stables and housing located on the Preakness Way lot.

My 41^st District colleagues and I expressed our concerns with the negative effect this would have upon the track’s neighbors – our constituents.

Pimlico and Sinai officials met today.

When the Preakness Way lot needs to be vacated, the track will provide parking at another location, most likely the Belvedere and Park Heights lot.

Another win-win for everybody.

Drawing maps and striking the right balance

January 12, 2012 | by delsandy | Uncategorized | No Comments

The most important legislation I worked on this past summer won’t have my name on it.

The Governor introduces the resolution redrawing the boundaries for our legislative districts.

If you can’t be elected in your new district, you can’t pass any bills.

So my 41^st District colleagues and I met early and often. We proposed a map that looked very much like our existing district – geographically and demographically.

The 41^st District in the Governor’s plan meets both of those criteria.

We lose none of our current neighborhoods and add Roland Park below Cold Spring Lane, Sinai Hospital and its adjacent residential communities, and the Uplands redevelopment along the Edmondson Avenue corridor.

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This morning, I introduced the first bill this session that will have my name on it.

House Bill 62 would exempt a professor’s research from a Public Information Act request.

Translation: Someone who disagrees with a professor who took a stand on a public issue could not harass the academic by demanding a copy of his or her research.

This is not hypothetical. It happened during Wisconsin’s battle over union rights and government spending last year and a controversy over climate control research by a former faculty member at the University of Virginia.

For HB 62 to pass, I must demonstrate that it strikes the right balance between the public’s right to know and academic freedom.