“Saving Lives Together: Adult CPR Basics for Community Heroes” is set for August 11,1 to 3 p.m. One of many classes offered by University of Maryland Shore Regional Health’s (UM SRH) Rural Health Education program, this non-certification class will be offered in-person at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown, 100 Brown St. There is no charge for the course, but registration is required.
Led by Sandra Wilson-Hypes, Health Educator for University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown, this course provides training in the life-saving technique of CPR, which can be used to revive someone who has suddenly collapsed and stopped breathing. It will be offered again in December.
Other upcoming classes offered through the UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown’s Rural Health Education program include “Organize Your Health” (Thursday, September 18) and “Safeguarding Seniors: Recognizing and Reporting Elder Abuse and Neglect” (October 14). Classes offered each month are “Breathe Again: A Journey to a Smoke Free and Healthier You” (1st Thursday of the month), “Don’t Worry, Be Healthy” (2nd Wednesday of the Month), and “Caring with Compassion and Purpose: Essential Lessons for Adult Caregivers” (4th Tuesday of the month).
Advance registration is required for all rural health education classes. To find out more about course content, locations and times, and to register, visit umshoreregional.org/health-education and click on the date(s) of the course you wish to attend in the calendar provided.
UM SRH is a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System.
About 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.
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.
