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 6 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.  Email any article in this issue to a friend! Go to charlesregional.org/mhm http://www.charlesregional.org/mhm

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

Maryland's Health Matters - Charles Regional - Winter 2014

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