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Eighty-eight members and guests of the Chester River Yacht & Country Club participated in the recent seventh annual Pink Polar Bear golf tournament, which raised $3,053 to benefit the patients served in the Eleanor & Ethel Leh Women’s Center at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown.

UM Shore Home Care and UM Chester River Home Care are now providing the Phillips’s Lifeline GoSafe Mobile 2 System, according to Kim Honeycutt, personal response program facilitator for both home care agencies.

Blood Bank of Delmarva (BBD) has declared a blood emergency and is asking people across the state to donate blood to help replenish the blood supply. To support this effort, the Chester River Health Foundation will hold a blood drive on Friday, August 17, 2018, 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. To schedule an appointment, visit BBD’s online donor portal and enter Sponsor Code: UMCC; or 1-888-825-6638. You may also download the scheduling app on your Android or iPhone.

Caroline County Department of Emergency Services received the fifth of a five year grant commitment from UM Shore Regional Health this year, marking a total of $600,000 in funding by University of Maryland Shore Regional Health to support health care access in Caroline County.

The Lung Cancer Screening Program was inaugurated on July 11, 2017. Three patients were seen that first day, and in a year’s time, 211 patients have been screened. Of those, one patient was diagnosed with Adenocarcinoma, and total of 44 were recommended for some kind of follow-up (low dose CT scan, CT with contrast, or Pet scan.)

Sandy Prochaska, nurse manager for Acute Care and Intensive Care at Shore Medical Center at Chestertown since 2014, has expanded her role to include management of the hospital's Emergency Department, according to Kathy Elliott, executive director, SMC at Chestertown.

After nearly three weeks of rain, the sun appeared for the UM Chester River Health Foundation’s 24th annual golf tournament, which was sponsored by the Chester River Hospital Center Auxiliary. By the time the last putt was dropped, golfers and donors had contributed more than $97,000, before expenses, toward the purchase of two sets of laparoscopic and arthroscopic equipment for the Surgical Services Department at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown.

The City of Cambridge, Dorchester County and the University of Maryland Shore Regional Health took an important step forward in future plans for new state-of-the-art health care facilities and services in the county and a milestone in development of the Cambridge waterfront as a community asset and economic development engine.