Cecil Times has just posted a piece on medical care below the canal. We’ve clipped the opening here, but to see all the article click on the appropriate link.
Cecil Times — Good Delaware Medical News for Southern Cecil County
For those of us living South of the C&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 “closest hospital,” 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 Johns Hopkins-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. [article continues on Cecil Times]
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