The UM Shore Medical Center at Cambridge just received a new, automatic cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine for its Emergency Department. The machine, called the LUCAS Device, cost more than $16,000 and its purchase was funded by the Dorchester General Hospital Foundation.
The LUCAS device improves the quality of chest compressions and helps sustain lifesaving circulation during prolonged resuscitation attempts. LUCAS has been clinically proven to be safe and effective, and to save the lives of patients whose condition otherwise might have been considered futile.
“This LUCAS device is state-of-the-art CPR technology,” said AnnMarie Hernandez, Emergency Department Manager at UM Shore Medical Center at Cambridge. “We are profoundly grateful to the Foundation for funding the purchase of this life-saving equipment that helps us provide the safest and most effective emergency care for our community.”

Surrounding UM Shore Medical Center at Cambridge Emergency Department’s new CPR machine are Esther Nichols, Nurse Tech; Heidi Van Winkle, RN; Kimberly Kral, Clinical Coordinator; AnnMarie Hernandez, Emergency Department Manager; Dr. C. Edmund Connelly, DDS, MAGD, Dorchester General Foundation President; and Joy Loeffler, Dorchester General Hospital Auxiliary President and DGH Foundation Board member.
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
As part of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. UM Shore Regional Health’s team of more than 2,200 employees, medical staff, board members and volunteers work with various community partners to fulfill the organization’s mission of Creating Healthier Communities Together.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org
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