Month: April 2016

Two University of Maryland Shore Regional Health team members were recently honored with awards at the 2016 American Cancer Society Colors of Cancer Gala, held at the Tred Avon Yacht Club in Oxford. Patty Plaskon, PhD, LCSW-C, OSW-C, was honored with the 2016 Professional Volunteer Hometown Hero Award for her many years of support and advocacy for areaContinue reading →

To commemorate April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, children’s advocates from organizations throughout Kent, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Caroline and Dorchester counties recently placed 67 blue ribbons, each representing a child served by the Talbot County Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) over the past year, on a tree at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton.Continue reading →

Next week you should receive your new Benefits Guide in your home mail. Informational Sessions wll be held at all facilities to offer pre-enrollment assistance April 25-29. Open Enrollment for the 2016-2017 Plan Year will occur May 2-15, 2016. This is your opportunity to make changes in your benefit elections for the upcoming year. During this time,Continue reading →

Health care professionals spend their lives providing physical and emotional support to the patients they serve, but few people outside of health care understand the risk that health care workers take every day to do their jobs, says Nancy Bedell, regional manager, UM Shore Regional Health’s Employee Health Services. “Health care is one of theContinue reading →

GOING GREEN! Beginning with the first pay in June (payday June 3, 2016), Shore Regional Health will be joining UMMS in the “Go Green” initiative by phasing out the delivery of paper pay stubs in favor of electronic delivery or “paperless pay.”  What this means for you is that all pay details will be available electronicallyContinue reading →

University of Maryland Shore Regional Health recently celebrated National Health Care Access Personnel Week, April 3 – 9, which is set aside to honor the quality care our Patient Access team provides to patients from registration to checkout. These team members provide the first impression of our patient experience and serve as the key component in puttingContinue reading →

     New Social Media Posts This Week…..Please Like and Share Prostate Cancer Golf Tournament to benefit the Cancer Center at UM Shore Regional Health Claws for a Cause Save the Date Children’s Advocates Commemorate National Child Abuse Prevention Month Join the Walk of Hope on April 30th!!

  Ask the Expert “Ask the Expert” Podcasts – To listen to informative interviews with UM SRH specialists on diabetes, childbirth and parent education, men’s health, women’s health, stroke awareness, interventional radiology,  integrative medicine and urology, and palliative care, visit UMShoreRegional.org/ATE. Alzheimer’s Support Alzheimer’s/Dementia Caregivers Support Group – Thursday, 4/21, 6-7:30pm, UM Shore Nursing &Continue reading →

UM Shore Regional Health team members are being called upon to help bring definitive descriptions to the five organizational values identified in the strategic planning process that created the UM SRH mission, Creating Healthier Communities Together, and the vision, To Be the Leaders in Patient Centered Health Care. The values are: Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, ExcellenceContinue reading →

Ken Kozel,  UMS SRH president and CEO, and Ruth Ann Jones, interim senior VP, Clinical Services/CNO, have started their advance care planning by completing their advance directives. Now that this first step is complete, they still must talk about their wishes with their healthcare agents and provide copies of their advance directives to their healthcare agents,Continue reading →

Starting on April 25, all questions and concerns about payroll will be submitted to HRConnections for resolution. The Payroll Hotline and the dedicated email address (ummspayroll@umm.edu) ultimately will be discontinued after a transition period. This change will take advantage of the training and resources of the HRConnections Service Center to resolve and track all questions relatedContinue reading →