Save Healthcare in Harford County

Please build this campus. This community and surrounding communities is needed in abundance!

I hope you can see the need to heal not only the body but mind as well. Let us fill this void in our community.

Much needed..

The number one problem nominated by each county in the State Of Maryland is opiate addiction. Our new facility will help this problem in a dynamic way with different levels of care for psychiatric age groups.

To have the ability to take care of the community in a timely and safe manner is rare. It would be a pleasure to work for an organization who can provide that service to their patients. Unfortunately the powers that be only care or make a change when it effects them or their family personally. Choosing to be in healthcare means you have chosen to put the community first and care for those who are in need. Please help those of us at the bedside to continue to provide any service the community needs, from emergencies to mental health to palliative care and everything in between. Allow us these resources to change the face of healthcare in Harford County.

Please do not delay our mission to help Harford County with the needs of specialty mental health care in the Aberdeen facility. Thank you for your help with this matter.

6 years ago Featured

We need a new mental health facility. Patients with addictions need specialized care. They need to be separate from patients who have totally different psychiatric disorders. Please allow the changes our county so desperately needs.

Vital for our community!

Having worked in the psychiatric field here is Harford County since 2011, it is obvious how desperately we need specialized psychiatric units. Our need for geriatric psych is obvious due to our aging population. The increase in drug addictions has led us to a need for a substance abuse unit. (Currently geriatric patients are on the same unit as withdrawing patients; not the best scenario.) Why would the state want to limit the number of beds to only increasing our count by 6 more is very confusing and problematic. If the hospital is will to increase there expense by having more beds for the population that needs it, why would the state go along with it? Please help the University of Maryland hospital system help improve the psychiatric needs of Harford County.

Please don't hold US back. Move forward as needed. Our world is changing.

It is evident that we do not have enough mental health resources to meet the need now, please don't hinder us for the future.

6 years ago Featured

We are in need of a medical facility in addition to Upper Chesapeake to cover the other side of Harford County. Aberdeen would be an ideal location with its proximity to I95 to enable pts access to Shock Trauma as needed.

Woohoo

UCMC serves a large geographical area that has had tremendous population growth since its original construction. Considering the extended geriatric population, ill Baby Boomers, opioid crisis, and existing mental health issues of this area the need for expansion at the BelAir facility and new facilities in Aberdeen will help to serve this growing population with much needed health care. This population deserves to have modern facilities available to them in the area where they live.

As the community continues to go, unfortunately so does the need for behavioral health services. Mental health and or addiction has or will touch most of us in this community. It is imperative that everyone in our community who is in need have access to these services. Please approve the plans for the Aberdeen campus and the expansion of UCMC.

Please approve the changes Harford County desperately needs.

Not approving the proposed changes and decreasing the number of acute care beds is absurd. The population of Harford County is continuing to grow and the population continuing to age. There are an additional 500 plus apartment units planned for Harford County, not to mention the housing developments already in the construction phase. There is also the 55+ housing complex yet to be started at EVA Mar on route 22 that will place further demands on our healthcare system. Please reconsider the approval and increase of acute care beds requested. As an employee of UCH I have seen drastic changes to the healthcare system and the demands placed on the healthcare system by the patients expectations for private rooms. The current healthcare model at UCH needs to be updated to include the psychiatric care beds. The current model does not support the care of patients with mental illness amongst the general healthcare population. Again, please reconsider your decision.

We have a great need for specialized behavior health units, especially a geriatric psychiatric unit and substance abuse unit as well as a general psychiatry. We are handicapped in the specific cares we can offer for specialized groups operating as one large unit. Please consider these very real needs in your assessment of the behavior health needs of our community.

The need for psychiatric healthcare in Harford county is not being met by the current resources. Please reconsider the UMMS/UCHS plan.

I am a resident of Harford County and I've had the pleasure of working in mental health for nearly 20 years in Harford County at the community level and currently at the inpatient level. The community and patients we serve deserve a improved facility for care, adequate psychiatric beds to decrease wait times, and a space that promotes recovery and support. Rejecting the plan for Aberdeen means the state is saying "no" to some of the most vulnerable patients in Harford County and this is unacceptable. I encourage the MHCC to reconsider; their current thought process is not an example of person-centered care or concern for our community.