Members of the newly elected 2024 Chester River Hospital Center Auxiliary Board.
The UM Chester River Hospital Center Auxiliary held its annual meeting and luncheon at Uncle Charlie’s Bistro in Chestertown on January 15 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and in celebration of volunteerism. The event marked the Auxiliary’s 89th year of service in support of UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. The hospital is part of the University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH), which is a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System.
During the meeting, the Auxiliary’s 2024 board of directors and officers were elected. The new executive committee includes Sue Edson, Nan Voorhees and Lea Wilson, co-presidents; Meredith Acton, vice president; Carol Droge, corresponding secretary; Susan Clark, recording secretary; Susan Conaghan, treasurer; and Lea Wilson, parliamentarian.
Auxiliary volunteers worked more than 10,230 hours for the benefit of the hospital in 2023, which equates to a value of more than $324,000, according to the Governor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism.
“The Auxiliary will focus significant effort to recruit many additional volunteers this year,” said Edson. “The dedicated entrance to the new Aging and Wellness Center will be renovated soon and among the needs for volunteers will be to assist patients and visitors at that entrance.”
For more information about volunteering at the hospital or its upscale thrift store, The Nearly New Shop in downtown Chestertown, please contact Edson at (410) 348-2159.
About UM Chester River Health Foundation
The Chester River Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Maryland corporation and the fiduciary responsible for soliciting, holding and disbursing charitable gifts that support excellence in patient care services exclusively at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown. It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Contributions fund the purchase of new and replacement medical equipment and technology, capital projects and scholarships for advanced health care education. The Foundation offers a complete array of philanthropy programs, from soliciting annual gifts through assistance with estate and legacy gift planning.
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
A member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. UM SRH consists of approximately 2,000 team members, including more than 400 health care providers on the Medical Staff, who work with community partners to advance the values that are foundational to our mission: Compassion, Discovery, Excellence, Diversity and Integrity. For more information, visit https://www.umms.org/shore.
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.
