University of Maryland Medical System Statement Thanking State For Additional COVID Funding

Today, Governor Hogan and the Maryland Department of Health announced the allocation of an additional $25 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to support Maryland hospitals and to also help expand the availability of COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines.

"The University of Maryland Medical System is extremely grateful for the Hogan Administration's continued support for hospitals and the health care industry," said Mohan Suntha, MD, President and CEO of UMMS.

"The Governor's leadership and commitment, especially during the past few years, has been crucial to allowing our hospitals and urgent care facilities to be able to provide care for thousands of patients. Before, during, and well after the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, this administration's support of health care has been a bedrock that Marylanders could rely on."

The University of Maryland Medical System has provided care for more than 27,000 COVID-positive patients since March 2020.

About the University of Maryland Medical System

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.