Health Care

The late 19th and early 20th centuries witnessed the beginnings of the modern health care system in the LESMD Region with the opening of Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury (1897) and the completion of Edward E. McCready Hospital in Crisfield (1923). Decades later a financial investment from Worcester County, the Town of Ocean City and the State of Maryland ushered in the creation of a separate health care system with the completion of Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin (1993). Extensive consolidation of services typical of the healthcare industry, including a 2020 merger of the Peninsula and McCready systems, has resulted in two innovative systems in the LESMD Region – Tidal Health and Atlantic General Health System.