CalvertHealth updates Chesapeake Beach council on awards, expansions and care initiatives
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CalvertHealth leaders briefed the council on recent national recognitions, expansion of primary care and specialty services, volunteer contributions, and plans for a 15,000‑square‑foot women's center and family birth center improvements.
Executives from CalvertHealth presented a two‑year strategic update to the Chesapeake Beach Town Council on July 17, outlining recent awards, clinical expansions and community partnerships.
Jeremy Bradford, president of the Calvert Health Foundation, and Kasia Sweeney, vice president for strategy and business development, highlighted several recognitions the system recently received, including placement among Forbes’ top 100 hospitals and a top‑15% Healthgrades ranking for patient experience. They said CalvertHealth earned the American Heart Association’s Go Plus stroke care award for the 13th consecutive year and received national accreditation for its metabolic and bariatric surgery program (MBSA QIP).
Sweeney summarized the health system’s strategic plan, which she said contains 367 line items across six priorities (culture & competence, primary care, outpatient services, clinical service lines, community hospital care, and community partnerships). She said the system has completed about 56% of planned items at the midpoint of the five‑year horizon and listed several concrete steps taken in the past two years:
- Expansion of primary care providers: five new providers and space expansion in Prince Frederick and Twin Beaches. - Growth of clinical service lines: a new clinical trials program with a partner (Duke) and a multidisciplinary breast clinic for cancer care; a bariatric program treating 280 patients and new weight‑management sites including one in Waldorf; orthopedics recruitment and a new Prince Frederick orthopedic center. - Investments in women’s health: a new 15,000‑square‑foot women’s center recently opened, and plans for a renovated family birth center with five labor/delivery/postpartum rooms. - Operations: about 3,922 surgical procedures, nearly 36,000 emergency visits, roughly 5,300 admissions, and about 470 deliveries in the last year; Twin Beaches Primary Care serves more than 7,000 patients.
Bradford credited the organization’s volunteers (he cited a figure of more than 14,000 volunteer hours) and asked the council for continued collaboration. Councilmembers asked about workforce development and career ladders for entry‑level staff; CalvertHealth representatives said the foundation funds scholarships and that the health system has tuition reimbursement, nurse residency programs and career ladders to support advancement for CNAs and other staff.
Why it matters: The presentation outlined expansions in local health services and plans that could increase access to specialty care in the county, and it sought continued town‑level support and partnership.
Next steps: CalvertHealth invited council members to tour new facilities and asked the town to continue partnership on workforce and community health initiatives.
