Devaney & Associates and client Carroll Hospital Center won Best in Show honors at PRSA Maryland's Best in Maryland awards Dec. 4 at the Hilton Baltimore.

BIMThe integrated, paid/earned media campaign for the Westminster, Md.-based non-profit community hospital touted the facility's orthopedics services to aging baby boomers and athletes, featuring individual patients' stories through before and after interviews. Surgeries increased 15% and appointments rose 10 percent over a year earlier.

Johns Hopkins took home four BIM awards – two for JH University press and two for JH Healthcare – while Devaney earned three BIMs, and Crosby Marketing Communications, Chesapeake Public Strategies, Erickson Living, Maryland Highway Administration, and Image Power earned two apiece.

Bonnie Heneson of Bonnie Heneson Communications was honored for lifetime achievement, while T. Rowe Price PR specialist Kylie Muratore was named New Professional of the Year.

Full list of winners and photos are at prsamd.org.