For the past several weeks, University of Maryland Shore Regional Health has been hosting Community Listening Sessions throughout the five-county region in an effort to learn about the community’s health care needs and ideas about how best to achieve better health and wellness.
The final Listening Session in the series will be held on Sunday, April 24 from 2-3:30pm at the Sudlersville Volunteer Fire Company, 203 N. Church Street in Sudlersville. The community is invited to attend and share their thoughts about creating a healthier community.
For those residents of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties who were unable to attend one of the Sessions, UM Shore Regional Health is still seeking input. Online surveys can be completed by visiting UMShoreRegional.org/listening. It is requested that all surveys be completed by May 1.
Margery Elsberg says
After Shore Regional Health’s VP for Public Relations and Strategy, Patti Willis, told me that zero citizens had attended the first two Listening Sessions in Denton and Cambridge, I went to several others. Other than Shore Regional Health CEO Kent Kozel, Patti Willis and other public relations staffers, the professional facilitator and one or two board members (one board member’s wife attended the session in Easton), attendance was light. One person went to the session in Easton and four attended the session in Centreville (mostly to support the need for inpatient services and more specialist doctors in Chestertown). In contract, I counted about 60 people at the Rock Hall session and more than 250 at the Kent County High School session in Worton. Though I don’t know the headcounts in Hurlock or Sudlersville, I know one thing for sure: Kent County residents are awesome!!!