After renovations at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown allowed for a larger main entrance, expanded emergency department, separate emergency department waiting room and movement of the hospital gift shop to a new location near the hospital entrance, hospital staff saw an empty space near Patient Registration as an excellent spot for a more private waiting area for patients and families awaiting hospital outpatient services, including laboratory and medical imaging services, to relax. The new waiting room recently was completed for hospital guests.
Sandra Lee Dunn says
The new waiting room is nicely appointed, comfortable, private and spacious..however, it belies the gross ineffectiveness of the hospital..I was in the ER at Chestertown yesterday, having called the ambulance when I fell down and passed out being dizzy from coughing and gasping for air..I have alpha-1 gene for COPD..treatment at hospital was the same as other visits to Er in last few months..twice I was admitted: COPD, pneumonia, bronchitis..several hours later, when my husband George got me home to Rock Hall, I felt no better..by the middle of the night it was worse and I was anxious and terrified trying to get air..this morning I called the hospital, related what I have written about here, spoke to a woman in the ER who remembered me from last night..her suggestion: “next time you need hospital, go to Easton..local ambulance will take you to Easton hospital at your request “. Imagine that! How sad..sad for Kent County residents..