Maryland's Health Matters - Charles Regional - Winter 2014 - (Page 6)
75and
Counting!
UM Charles Regional Medical
Center celebrates 75 years of
serving southern Maryland
Marilyn Gilroy, the first
patient at what is now UM
Charles Regional Medical
Center, with Maxwell, one of
UM CRMC's newest patients.
FROM FIRST PATIENT TO SECOND HOME,
coffee, juice and a cheerful
Marilyn Gilroy shares a long history with the hospital
"good morning" to patients at
I
t could have been a spooky memory. "I was the only one
the start of each day. "It was
there besides the nurse," recalls Marilyn Gilroy about her
something they looked forward
10-day hospital stay in January 1939. The La Plata resi-
to," she remembers.
After breaking her hip and
dent was the hospital's very first patient when she was
admitted as a 12-year-old for an appendectomy.
having hip replacement surgery
Instead, the care she received as a child paved the way for
in 2012, Gilroy became chair
the 75 years (so far) that Gilroy has invested in the hospital.
of the Auxiliary's "sunshine
"It's been a second home to me," Gilroy says. She
committee," sending birthday,
started working in the accounts receivable department
get-well and other cards to the
in 1975 and went on to spend years as a patient financial
Auxiliary's members.
counselor, retiring in 1997.
Her work with the Auxiliary began in 2003, when she
volunteered to chair the coffee cart committee, delivering
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MARYLAND'S HEALTH MATTERS
Throughout the health system's long history, volunteers
like Gilroy and the entire staff have worked to make each
patient feel like the only patient.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Maryland's Health Matters - Charles Regional - Winter 2014
Maryland's Health Matters - Charles Regional - Winter 2014
Contents
A Healthy Start
75 and Counting!
Back on the Beat
At a Glance
Foundation Focus
Healthy Happenings
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