University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services recently welcomed McKenna Gillen, MS, OT, to the outpatient rehab team. UM SRH is a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System.
A resident of Stevensville, Md., Gillen presently provides outpatient care at both Shore Rehab at Queenstown and Shore Rehab at Denton. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in occupational therapy at Towson University, where she also served as a graduate assistant and was a recipient of the Bowes Family Occupational Therapy Endowed Fellowship. Most recently as an occupational therapist with the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s International Center for Spinal Cord Injury in Baltimore. Previously, she spent two years at UM Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Institute where she assessed and treated adults for a range of conditions, including spinal cord injury, stroke, acquired brain injury, amputation, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, transplant, orthopedic injuries/trauma and more.
“We are excited to have McKenna on board with us,” said Frank Rath, outpatient services manager for UM SRH Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services. “Her warm, compassionate professionalism, credentials and experience make her a great asset to our team and the communities we serve.”
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 600 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.
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