The Dorchester Shore Community Outreach Team (SCOT) recently welcomed Connie Coffman to the team as a community health advocate. The Dorchester SCOT is a population health initiative of University of Maryland Shore Regional Health, a member organization of University of Maryland Medical System.
A resident of Dorchester County, Coffman brings more than 23 years of experience in population health services to the team and is fluent in Spanish as well as English. Most recently, she served as a domestic violence case manager for the Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence.
Coffman joins nurse coordinator Rochalla Jones, social worker Jessica Wise and community health advocate Courtney Thomas on the Dorchester SCOT team, which visits trusted community sites to provide health screenings and information to Dorchester County residents, free of charge. November screenings are scheduled as follows:
- Wednesday, November 12, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 303 S. Main St., Hurlock; and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the Neck District VFD, 954 Cooks Point Rd., Cambridge
- Thursday, November 13, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Dorchester County Public Library, 303 Gay St., Cambridge
- Tuesday, November 18, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Shiloh House Apts., 6206 Shiloh Church Hurlock Rd., Hurlock
- Thursday, November 20, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Senior Center/Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Intergenerational Center, 108 Chesapeake St., Cambridge
- Monday, November 24, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., East New Market Apts., 40 Academy St., East New Market
SCOT members also provide home visits and safety assessments; case management for those with chronic illness; group wellness activities; assistance in connecting patients with their providers via telehealth; and assistance with completing health-related paperwork, including insurance forms and Advance Directives.
To schedule an appointment or visit, or to learn more about the Dorchester Shore Community Outreach Team, call 443-225-7545 or email [email protected].
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.
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