Penny Young-Carrasquillo has joined the University of Maryland Chester River Health Foundation (UM CRHF) as its first Major Gifts Officer. In this role, Young-Carrasquillo will seek charitable donations and grants from individuals, businesses and foundations to support patient care services at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown.
UM CRHF is the fundraising arm of the Chestertown hospital, which is a member organization of University of Maryland Shore Regional Health and University of Maryland Medical System. Gifts to the foundation further the hospital’s mission by supporting needed medical equipment; facility improvements and expansions; community education; and scholarships for nursing and support staff’s continuing education and advanced certifications.
A Howard County native, Young-Carrasquillo received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and her master’s degree in professional writing from Towson University in Towson, Maryland. She has worked in fundraising and communications for more than 20 years in Maryland, Virginia and Florida. Most recently, she spent five years as chief development officer for the Council on Aging of Volusia County, Florida. Young-Carrasquillo and her husband now live in Centreville, Md.
“Penny will play an essential role in advancing our hospital’s mission through philanthropy,” said Libby Woolever, Board Chair, UM CRHF. “Our hospital has achieved accreditation as a geriatric emergency department and an Age-Friendly Health System, and also is a member of the Healthy People 2030 initiative, which sets data driven, national objectives to improve community health.”
For more information about UM CRHF, please contact Penny Young-Carrasquillo at (410) 810-5660 or visit umcrhf.org.
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 600 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.
