Center for a Healthy Maryland

|April 7, 2023

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What Are Social Drivers/Determinants of Health? Social Drivers/Determinants of Health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and play that have a major impact on health, quality of life and cost of health care in America.

Examples of SDOH factors are: food insecurity, housing instability, transportation problems, utilities difficulties, and interpersonal safety. Physicians are in a unique position to help patients identify the social conditions that are having a negative impact on their health and well-being. With the right tools and resources, physicians could also connect their patients to the right services to ameliorate the effects of various issues on their health.

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The Center for a Healthy Maryland, The Maryland State Medical Society Foundation was established in 1976 as a 501(c)(3) corporation to support the advances of practice of medicine, enhance the quality of medical care, promote the health of the citizens of Maryland, explore the history of medicine in Maryland and preserve MedChi’s archives.

The Center for a Healthy Maryland is housed at the MedChi’s Baltimore Office.

The Center’s mission is to: advance the practice of medicine, enhance the quality of medical care, promote the health of the citizens of the State of Maryland, explore the history of medicine in Maryland, and preserve MedChi’s archives.

“Since 1799, MedChi has worked to create an atmosphere both effective and genial, so that members whom come to the building feel that interesting and important things are going on under its roof.” A quote from Marcia Noyes’ eulogy in 1946 by Albert Chatard, M.D.

The Center for a Healthy Maryland’s public health programs are dedicated to improving the health status of the citizens of Maryland through education, advocacy and linkage to resources.

“It is a physician’s ethical responsibility to take cognizance of a colleague’s inability to practice medicine by reason of physical or mental illness, including alcoholism or drug dependence…Accountability to the public through assurance of competent care to patients by physicians and other health professionals is a paramount responsibility of organized medicine.” -AMA, 1973

With the advent of digitization, our library is no longer used by members, but it’s still mostly intact. Much of our archive collection remains available for research either here on-site, or at the nearby Maryland Historical Society. Our MedChi Archives blog explores topics as diverse as things that we find in the stacks, to the architectural details on our buildings. Additionally, there are lists of the portraits in our collection, along with details of each sitter; all of our Presidents through the decades; speakers at the Hunt History of Medicine lectures over the years, and a history of our building which was home to School #49.

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The Center for a Healthy Maryland is housed at the MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society’s Baltimore Office.

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Programs

The Center’s programs include supporting the study of medicine and the diffusion of medical knowledge through the continuing medical education of physicians; providing programs to maintain the wellness of practicing physicians serving the public; preserving and learning from the past history of medical care in Maryland; educating the public about medical issues, and promoting public health programs.