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The Department was formed in 1969 as the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and was known by this name until June 30, 2017. [3] Although the department itself was formed in 1969, some of its origins go back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [ 3 ]
Coastal Hospice and Palliative Care is a non-profit health care organization founded in 1980. [1] It is located in Salisbury, Maryland, and serves Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset and Worcester counties. Its mission as a hospice is to serve the needs of the terminally ill in their own homes throughout the four Lower Shore counties.
Worcester County was created by the division of the formerly larger Eastern Shore's Somerset County in 1742. The county seat, which was previously located near the confluence of Dividing Creek with the Pocomoke River, was later transferred to the river port of Snow Hill, at the head of navigation of the Pocomoke, now near the center of the new county.
Within Maryland the county is the default unit of local government. Under Maryland law, counties exercise powers reserved in most other states at the municipal or state levels. [4] Many of the state's most populous and economically important communities, such as Bethesda, Silver Spring, Columbia, and Towson are unincorporated and receive their ...
Snow Hill is a town and the county seat of Worcester County, Maryland, United States. [3] The population was 2,156 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Bishop is an unincorporated community in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. [1] Bishop is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 113 and Maryland Route 367 , just south of the Delaware state line.
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