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VA Maryland Health Care System Named One of 10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore

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(Baltimore) On Thursday, September 18, 2008, the VA Maryland Health Care System was officially named as one of the Baltimore Business Journal's 10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore for an organization with 500 or more employees. The health care system competed with over 90 other businesses, hospitals, universities and financial institutions throughout the state for this prestigious honor.

The VA Maryland Health Care System achieved a fourth place ranking in this year's competition ahead of some very impressive businesses and organizations. Additionally, the health care system has the unique distinction of being the only Federal agency in Maryland to be named as one of the 10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore for 2008. 

The 10 finalists for the Best Places to Work competition, which covers Baltimore City and the five surrounding counties (Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard Counties), were selected based on employee responses to an online survey that was conducted by the Baltimore Business Journal for a three-week period.  To be eligible to participate in the competition, the health care system needed a minimum of 195 employees to complete the online survey. Employees answered questions about job satisfaction, management style and trustworthiness, and their own job performance during the anonymous survey.

Here is what some employees have to say about why they feel the VA Maryland Health Care System is one of the Best Places to Work in Baltimore:

"It really feels like working with a family, and everyone really cares about the work that they do for our veterans," said Dr. Christina Watlington, a psychologist with the VA Maryland health Care System's Returning Veteran Outreach, Education, and Care Program.

"It's great to be a part of a high-energy organization like the VA Maryland Health Care System where we are given the resources to effectively do our job of taking care of those who have served our country - our veterans, said Matt Camardese, a social worker for the VA Maryland Health Care System.

"It's wonderful working for the VA and being able to give back to our veterans who have given so much for us," said Charlene Grant, the assistant chief of the Prosthetics Treatment Center for the VA Maryland Health Care System.

The VA Maryland Health Care System joins the ranks of AAI Corporation, Erickson Retirement Communities, Legg Mason Inc., LifeBridge Health, McCormick & Company Inc., MedStar Health, PHH Arval, Towson University and Verizon Wireless as a part of the 10 Best Places to Work in Baltimore for the Large Company category.

This is the second such honor for the VA Maryland Health Care System, which achieved a seventh place ranking in the 2006 Best Places to Work in Baltimore competition.