SECU Maryland donates $100K to UMD children’s hospital for emergency services area | Maryland Daily Record

SECU on behalf of the SECU MD Basis, the philanthropic arm of Maryland’s largest state-chartered credit score union, introduced Wednesday it has dedicated $100,000 to the College of Maryland Kids’s Hospital for an enhanced and newly renovated pediatric psychiatry emergency providers space.

The donation, pledged over the subsequent 5 years, is the biggest quantity up to now from SECU to the hospital.

Dedicated to making a stronger Maryland by supporting well being and wellness, empowering entry to schooling, and serving as a catalyst for group growth, the donation builds on a decade-long relationship between SECU and the hospital and seeks to assist handle the continued pediatric psychological well being disaster.

Whereas housed inside the present emergency room, the renovated, devoted area will present a secure, non-public and quiet surroundings, that includes 4 affected person care rooms, a devoted occupational remedy room and play space, a rest room with bathe and a small nurse’s station for employees.  Moreover, it’s going to additional help the collective capacity of the College of Maryland Kids’s Hospital Departments of Psychiatry, Social Work and Baby Psychiatric Emergency Providers to guage a affected person upon arrival, provoke energetic remedy, present psychiatric occupational therapies, and leverage little one life to higher enhance affected person and household care.