News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
EASTON, MD: The Population Health team at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) launched a campaign in July 2022 to encourage people of all ages to complete an advance directive and share it with the health care system to be scanned into their personal electronic medical record (EMR). During the first year of […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD: University of Maryland Shore Medical Group – Women’s Health recently welcomed Janyne E. Althaus, MD, a University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) perinatologist who specializes in managing high-risk pregnancies, and Abbie L. Fields, MD, a leading gynecologic oncologist with UM SOM. Dr. Althaus and Dr. Fields are seeing patients at the Easton-based […]
Continue ReadingSnow Hill, MD: In celebration of Men’s Health Month, the Worcester County Health Department in collaboration with the City of Pocomoke will be hosting their first Just Walk for Men’s Health event on June 10th 2023. The event will take place at Cypress Park in Pocomoke City, MD. It will include a walk, no-cost health […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD: University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton, a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), has received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade in The Leapfrog Group’s fall 2023 reporting period. This marks the sixth consecutive period that the hospital has received an ‘A’. Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade is a […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD: University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) celebrated National Donate Life Month during April, honoring organ donors and bringing awareness to saving or enhancing lives through organ, eye and tissue donation. Activities included raising the Donate Life flag at the entrance of Shore Medical Center at Easton and remarks from William Huffner, […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD: Kendall Dixon, BS, RRT, a respiratory therapist with University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH), recently received the “Rookie Therapist of the Year” award from the Maryland/District of Columbia (MD/DC) Society for Respiratory Care (SRC). “We are so excited, not only at the Respiratory Services department level, but within UM Shore Regional […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD: Lisa Lisle, MSN, RN, CEN, Clinical Nurse Coordinator, University of Maryland Shore Emergency Center at Queenstown and EMS Base Station Coordinator for UM Shore Regional Health, was honored as Maryland Emergency Nurses Association Emergency Nurse of the Year by the Maryland Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The award was presented to […]
Continue ReadingA new, state-of-the-art Senographe Pristina 3D mammography machine with tomosynthesis is the most recent addition to the Eleanor and Ethel Leh Women’s Center at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. Designed by women, for women, this new equipment offers a more comfortable mammogram experience, with adjustments made for better positioning and compression, and improved image […]
Continue ReadingSalisbury, Maryland: The Wicomico County Health Department (WiCHD), in partnership with the Somerset County Health Department and TidalHealth, is happy to announce the launch of the Healthy Delmarva website. The Healthy Delmarva website hosts information from our latest Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) provides interactive tools and graphs for key health data in our community. […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD: University of Maryland Shore Medical Group – Cardiology recently welcomed Sheeba Thattil, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, PCCN as a new provider at the practice. Thattil has more than 20 years of experience in clinical and education settings, including cardiac and medical surgical units, and intensive care units. Most recently, Thattil spent more than 15 […]
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