Patients and doctors are breathing a sigh of relief at news that the Chestertown Hospital will not be shut down for now.
With support from local residents lawmakers in Annapolis approved a measure that requires the facility to stay open until 2020.
WBOC reports that this will result in the inpatient facilities will remain until that time.
The hospital is operated by the University of Maryland Shore Regional Health System.
The television station reports that there was concern by some at the Kent and Queen Anne’s Rescue Squad that they would lose that facility.
Maryland begun a study to come up with a plan for rural hospitals.
