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University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is intensely engaged in planning to care for our community in the event of an influx of patients needing hospital care as result of the possible impact of COVID-19.

Effective Friday, March 13, at 5 p.m., all support group meetings, classes, seminars and professional meetings scheduled in UM Shore Regional Health hospitals, outpatient and other facilities are cancelled until further notice.

Healthcare providers at UM Shore Medical Centers are preparing in anticipation of COVID-19. We are monitoring the situation and are following guidelines and protocols issued by the CDC.

On Tuesday, December 16, 2019, University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) achieved another milestone toward enhancing health care services in Dorchester County with the purchase of 9.23 acres in Cambridge Marketplace at Ocean Gateway (U.S. Route 50) and Woods Road for construction of a new health care campus.

Five members of the UM Shore Medical Group – Neurosurgery team will fly to Honduras in January 2020 to work with One World Surgery.

Congratulations to Khalid Kurtom, MD, medical director, University of Maryland Shore Medical Group - Neurosurgery, on his recent selection by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) as winner of the 2019 Advocate State Award for Excellence for Maryland.

Pennsylvania man recounts coordinated efforts of local paramedics and EMTs, as well as University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown Emergency Department staff and UM Shore Medical Center at Easton Cardiac Intervention Center team at UM Shore Regional Health.