Month: May 2016

University of Maryland Shore Regional Health will observe National Nurses Week May 6-12. Stay tuned…further details about the celebrations honoring our region’s nurses will be appear in a future issue of Compass.

Congratulations to Cathy Weber, BSN, RN, CEN, Emergency Department manager at UM Shore Medical Center at Dorchester, on being named Emergency Nurse of the Year by the American College of Emergency Physicians, Maryland Chapter (MD ACEP). The award, presented by William Jaquis, MD FAECP, on April 8 at the Maryland ACEP conference in Baltimore, recognized WeberContinue reading →

All employees on staff in May 2016 must complete open enrollment by the deadline of May 15, 2016. To make any changes to current benefits including electing to continue/enroll in Flexible Spending Accounts, please log into HRConnections to elect your benefits. All new elections will be effective July 1, 2016. IMPORTANT REMINDERS: IF YOU WANTContinue reading →

University of Maryland Shore Regional Health recently celebrated Medical Laboratory Professionals Week from April 24 through April 30. This celebratory week is an annual recognition of the greater than 300,000 medical laboratory professionals and pathologists across the country that are essential to the success of the health care industry.  Another purpose of this celebratory week isContinue reading →

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. An estimated nice out of 10 Americans have low health literacy; however, with the added impediment of stress and illness, nearly everyone has low health literacy at some pointContinue reading →

Next Saturday, May, 14, the 2nd Annual NO BULL 5K Run will be held, taking place through the beautiful vineyards at the Triple Creek Winery located in Cordova. This year’s run will benefit the CARES program offered by University of Maryland Shore Regional Cancer Center and Talbot Agriculture and Education Center. The NO BULL 5K RunContinue reading →

  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. Ask the Expert Community Presentations – University of Maryland Shore Regional Health has announced severalContinue reading →