As a recipient of a life changing kidney transplant that required travel “across the Bridge”; Al Silverstein has a deep appreciation for the expressed need from countless Easton residents for more health care providers in Easton and the Eastern Shore. Al also brings a unique perspective on how to address that need, based on his hands-on experience as a Chamber of Commerce president in another small community with similar needs. While serving as the Chamber president in North Platte, Nebraska (pop. 23,000), Al was deeply involved in successful efforts to help ensure a local hospital remained viable, an effort that helped to recruit and retain medical professionals to that community. Al can and will use lessons learned from that experience to help secure a new state of the art regional hospital in Easton. Al knows a new hospital is an essential selling point in recruiting much needed medical professionals to come here AND to stay here.
Al also knows that a new hospital by itself is not enough. He knows quality of life issues are also a key to recruiting and retaining the medical professionals our citizens expect and deserve.
As a member of the Easton Town Council, Al has supported a range of initiatives to improve Easton’s already high quality of life. Those initiatives include purchase of open space in perpetuity, expanding the rail to trails network, and providing more affordable housing.
Al has also developed and maintains strong working relations with key decision makers in Annapolis who oversee state approval of a new hospital and state funding for that new hospital. Al’s relationships are the result of his involvement as a “Fellow” in the University of Maryland’s Academy of Excellence in Local Governance; as president elect of the Eastern Shore Association of Municipalities; as a past president of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Executives; as a past president of Eastern Shore Heritage; as a graduate of Shore Leadership, and as chair of the Maryland Alcohol and Tobacco Commission where he was appointed by the Governor, unanimously confirmed by the State Senate, and unanimously elected as commission chair by his fellow commissioners.
As a member of the Easton Town Council and as the former President/CEO of the Talbot County Chamber of Commerce, Al has done a lot for our community. As Mayor of Easton, he can and will do even more on helping to transform the vision of more health care options in Easton into reality.
Gloria Sauer
Easton
Susan Marva says
I fully agree with you have said. He is a man of integrity and has the energy to take on the responsibilities of being a mayor.