The Auxiliary of Memorial Hospital at Easton recently elected the following new officers for the 2022-2024 term: Liz Hannegan, President; Robert Coleman, 1st Vice President; Terry Stephan, 2nd Vice President; Janet Granger, Corresponding Secretary; Mary Mahoney, Recording Secretary and Gervois Wooters, Treasurer.
“I am pleased to be working with Auxiliary members again,” said Hannegan, who also served as President of the active volunteer group from 2018-2020. “We have an outstanding board and membership. Our top priority is to continue to support our hospital, both financially and through volunteerism.”
The Auxiliary has been a major supporter of University of Maryland Shore Regional Health for over 75 years, donating approximately $150,000 annually in recent years. Recently, the Auxiliary donated $10,000 to the Birthing Center to replace baby blankets with Halo Sleep Sacks, a safer, more comfortable alternative for infants; $6,000 to SRH’s Cancer Survivor Day and $12,000 to Chesapeake College for health care scholarships.
Auxiliary Officers: Liz Hannegan, President, Bob Coleman, 1st Vice President, Terry Stephan, 2nd Vice President, Mary Mahoney, Recording Secretary, Janet Granger, Corresponding Secretary, Gervois Wooters, Treasurer.
“The Auxiliary is a vital part of our hospital,” said Ken Kozel, President and CEO. “We are so grateful for their generous financial support, as well as the thousands of volunteer hours donated each year.”
The Auxiliary operates The Bazaar at 121 Federal Street (a consignment shop) and Maggie’s Gift Shop at UM Shore Medical Center at Easton, and also hosts other fundraising events throughout the year to benefit health care programs and services.
Volunteers provide patient care at the Cancer Center at UM SRH, Escort Services at UM Shore Medical Center at Easton, and Hypertension Screening at the UM SRH Diagnostic and Imaging Center at Easton. Volunteers also staff the popular Cuddler program, which connects volunteer “cuddlers” with special-needs infants in need of hospitalization.
Auxiliary volunteers are needed in a number of capacities and various schedules are available. To learn more, contact Terry Stephan, terrystephan81@gmail.
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
As part of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. UM Shore Regional Health’s team of more than 2,200 employees, medical staff, board members and volunteers works with various community partners to fulfill the organization’s mission of Creating Healthier Communities Together.
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.
Write a Letter to the Editor on this Article
We encourage readers to offer their point of view on this article by submitting the following form. Editing is sometimes necessary and is done at the discretion of the editorial staff.