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		<title>Union Hospital Merges with Delaware&#8217;s ChristianaCare, After Struggle to Save Local Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 23:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS Cecil County’s community hospital, the more than century-old Union Hospital in Elkton, is merging with ChristianaCare in Delaware, bringing the struggling local hospital into the fold of the nationally recognized teaching hospital and trauma center that dominates health care in the First State. While many questions remain about the practicalities of the merger, the fact that the local hospital will survive is a welcome outcome that had been in some doubt for several years. Union will lose its independence and much of its identity in the agreement, which was announced Thursday (1/2/2020) after officially taking effect on January 1. The 72-bed local hospital will be officially known as ChristianaCare-Union Hospital and its Elkton real estate, which includes medical office space, will be dubbed “ChristianaCare-Cecil County.” Union, and its parent organization Affinity Health Alliance, now joins the Delaware institution which operates its main hospital in Newark, DE, Wilmington Hospital in that city, and the ChristianaCare emergency hospital in Middletown, DE. The Middletown operation, opened in 2013 with a $34 million, 36,500 square foot emergency medical services facility, is utilized by many southern Cecil County residents. Christiana officials said in a written statement that the process of fully integrating the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil Co Health: Harford Hospitals Consolidate, Union Cuts Renowned DE Christiana Hospital Out of Loop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT News Analysis New plans for shifting hospital costs and services in Harford, Cecil and Kent counties are generating controversy, some misunderstandings, and some real concerns about forcing area patients to travel long distances to obtain hospital care or being denied transfer to facilities with more advanced services. Volunteer fire companies that provide most of the ambulance transports to hospitals in the area are concerned that their crews could be tied up for hours by having to transport patients to two facilities or travel greater distances. Western Cecil County residents and officials worry that full emergency and inpatient services—including swift care for stroke patients&#8211; now located a short drive over the Hatem Bridge will be lost to a more distant Bel Air facility in Harford County. And transfers from Union Hospital in Elkton for more advanced services that now are generally provided at the nearby Christiana Care facility in Delaware—which is a nationally-ranked teaching hospital&#8211; could be re-directed to the distant Bel Air operation which has fewer specialty services. Meanwhile, in Kent County, a full-service hospital in Chestertown is proposed for cutback to just a freestanding emergency room, with serious cases requiring travel to Easton—a 90-minute [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Delaware Medical News for Southern Cecil County</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   For those of us living South of the C&#38;D Canal, especially in the off-the-highway rural areas, there is good news for our health and our lives: the world-renowned Christiana Care Health System of Delaware has purchased a 108-acre site in Middletown, DE to develop a  24/7 state-of-the-art emergency room and medical facility with advanced and specialized health care. This would be the closest advanced medical facility for our southern Cecil communities.    Right now, the theoretical &#8220;closest hospital,&#8221; under Emergency Medical Services (i.e., county ambulance)  transport rules, is Union Hospital in Elkton, unless you are living right up against the border to Kent County, MD and its proximity to Chestertown and their University of Maryland Medical System-affiliated hospital.  But for most of us southern Cecil residents, any critical medical situation now usually requires transport to Union Hospital. If you know your rights under Maryland law, to demand transport to a more advanced hospital, you can then insist on transfer, after initial Union Hospital delivery, to the Christiana campus in northern Delaware, where you have access to 24-hour advanced and critical medical care.    Please, before all the Union Hospital donors and advocates attack us for this reporting of the facts, we realize that Union is a lot better [&#8230;]]]></description>
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