Longtime AAMC staffers compare 'old', 'new' facilities

It has been years since anyone has worked at Anne Arundel Medical Center's downtown location, but nurse Peggy Holston still vividly remembers her time there. Especially when she took a patient to Italy.

Holston had been working on B4, which operated as the hospital's medical surgical unit until 2001.

She was treating a patient with terminal cancer who was approaching her 40th birthday and had dreamed of spending that day in Italy with a close friend. But the friend lived in another state and, as the woman grew sicker, it didn't seem as if her dream was going to come true.

So Holston and her co-workers brought...