Multicultural Health Fair at Shrewsbury Parish

CHESTERTOWN, MD

A multicultural health screening and resource fair will be held on Sunday, April 28th 2024 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Shrewsbury Parish, 12824 Shrewsbury Church Road in Kennedyville, Md.

Organized and sponsored by University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown’s Shore Community Outreach Team, the fair is designed to connect local residents, particularly those from Hispanic communities, to the many health care and social services resources available in Kent County. The University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown is a University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) hospital; UM SRH is a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System.

Services offered at the event will include blood pressure and, diabetes screening, dental care resources, help with medication management and migrant support services, eldercare information and resources for substance use recovery and support, among others.

“Many community partners have come together to make this event an opportunity for members of underserved communities, including migrant individuals and families, to receive on-site health screenings and a wide array of information about how to access support services for health care, health insurance and much more,” said Emily Welsh, MSN, RN, Shore Community Outreach Team Nurse Coordinator. “We want people to know that they can get many kinds of assistance, support and certain health screenings right here in Kent County and free of charge.”

Organizations and agencies participating in the event include Chesapeake College Adult Education, Chesapeake, Multicultural Resource Center, Choptank Community Health, Corsica River Mental Health, Kent County’s Health and Social Services Departments, Kent County Rebuilding Together, Maryland Food Bank, Maryland Health Connection, Mid Shore Behavioral Health, Recovery in Motion, and UM Shore Regional Health’s Clark Comprehensive Breast Center and Population Health as well as Shore Community Outreach Team.

For more information, contact Michelle Matthews, Shore Community Outreach Team, 410-778-3300, ext. 5645, michellematthews@umm.edu

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~ 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 400 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.

~ 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.