Keeping good care close to home.

The mission of the Dorchester General Hospital Foundation is to raise funds in support of the Shore Health System, Inc. in Dorchester County for the preservation, education and enhancement of the health and welfare of residents of Dorchester County.

Make a giftGrants & scholarships

What we fund

Every gift remains on the Shore.

The Foundation is run by a volunteer board of neighbors. Donations support the medical center in Cambridge and the people who provide care there.

Equipment & services

Funding equipment needs and programs at UM Shore Regional Health at Cambridge so patients can get care close to home.

Nursing education

Grants for continuing education and certification for nurses who live or work in Dorchester County.

Future caregivers

Renewable scholarships for Dorchester County students entering nursing and medical-related programs.

1988Incorporated
3Grant & scholarship programs
$2,000Top annual award
4 yrsScholarships renewable up to
Our history

More than a century of care in Dorchester County

The building on the Choptank River is gone, but the hospital's work, and the community support behind it, carries on in Cambridge.

Sepia postcard of a three-story brick hospital with a central two-level porch, labeled Cambridge-Maryland Hospital, Cambridge, MD
The Cambridge-Maryland Hospital, later Dorchester General Hospital, on a postcard mailed in December 1911. National Library of Medicine, public domain.
  1. 1904

    A hospital on the Choptank

    The hospital is built on the Choptank River in Cambridge, known in its early years as the Cambridge-Maryland Hospital. For more than a century it serves Dorchester County families, with physicians and benefactors such as Dr. Brice Worthington Goldsborough, remembered as its founder.

  2. 1988

    The Foundation is formed

    Community members establish the Dorchester General Hospital Foundation to raise money for the hospital's equipment, programs and staff, and to help local students and nurses build careers in health care.

  3. 1996

    Shore Health System

    Dorchester General Hospital and The Memorial Hospital at Easton join to form Shore Health System, which later affiliates with the University of Maryland Medical System and is known today as UM Shore Regional Health.

  4. 2021

    A new medical campus

    On October 28, 2021, UM Shore Regional Health at Cambridge opens at Cambridge Marketplace: a $53 million freestanding medical facility that brings emergency, surgical, diagnostic and specialty care together under one roof.

  5. 2022

    Saying goodbye to the old building

    The original hospital on the waterfront is demolished to make way for the Cambridge Harbor redevelopment. Its portraits, plaques and black walnut chapel pews, made by local craftspeople, are now in the care of the Dorchester County Historical Society.

Care close to home today

UM Shore Regional Health at Cambridge

The new freestanding medical facility gives Dorchester County a broad range of vital services, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Dorchester General Hospital Auxiliary still runs its gift shop, and the Foundation continues to support its programs and the people who work there.

715 Cambridge Marketplace Blvd., Cambridge, MD 21613
443-225-7500 · Visit the facility's website
  • 24-hour emergency department with telemedicine specialist consults
  • Short-stay observation care
  • Outpatient and general surgery
  • Diagnostic imaging, including MRI, and laboratory services
  • Behavioral health emergency and intensive outpatient care
  • Cardiology and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation
  • Infusion therapy
  • Physical, occupational and speech therapy, plus the Balance Center
  • Pediatrics, and pulmonary and sleep testing
  • Specialists in diabetes, GI, kidney, neurology, urology and women's health
Grants & scholarships

Three ways we invest in Dorchester's caregivers

All programs are for Dorchester County residents, or for nurses who live or work in the county.

Rolling deadline

Jesse Stevens Fund Nursing Grants

Up to $2,000

For continuing-education courses or certification for nurses, scholarships for graduate nurses in formal degree programs, and currently enrolled nursing students.

  • Grants accepted on a continuing basis as funds allow
  • Formal degree programs: apply January 1 – April 1
Nursing grants application
Jan 1 – Apr 1

Jesse Stevens Fund High School Scholarship

$1,000 – $2,000

One-year scholarships for Dorchester County high school students entering nursing programs.

  • Renewable for up to 4 years
  • Keep a B average and stay in your major
High school application
Jan 1 – Apr 1

DGH Foundation Medical Scholarship

$1,000 – $2,000

One-year scholarships for Dorchester County high school students entering medical-related programs.

  • Renewable for up to 4 years
  • Keep a B average and stay in your major
High school application

Renewing a scholarship?

At the end of each school year, once you have your grades, reapply using the renewal application.

Scholarship renewal application
Send completed applications to
DGH Foundation, Inc.
Grants Committee
P.O. Box 101
Cambridge, MD 21613

Questions? Call 410-463-3544.
Leadership

Board of Directors

  • Carol J. Baker-Jones · President
  • Amy J. Craig · Vice President
  • Vernon E. Phillips, III, CPA · Treasurer
  • E. Thomas Merryweather, Esq. · Secretary
  • Rev. George Ames
  • Bruce Bernard, Ph.D.
  • William C. Bair, MD
  • Cathy Friend
  • Catherine “Cathy” Gullion · Hospital Auxiliary
  • AnnMarie Hernandez, RN, BSN, MSN
  • Kenneth Kozel · President, UM Shore Regional Health
  • Joy Loeffler
  • Judith A. Slaughter, MA, CEAP
  • Beth Spencer, LCSW-C

Give to care in Cambridge

Gifts of every size support programs, equipment and caregivers at UM Shore Regional Health at Cambridge.

  • Give in honor or in memory of someone. Just note it with your gift.
  • Thank a nurse or caregiver who made a difference.
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Mail a check to
Dorchester General Hospital Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 101
Cambridge, MD 21613
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN 52-1703242
Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.