by Kate Shunney
Hospitals in Hagerstown and Cumberland are asking the public to help curb capacity problems as COVID and other seasonal illnesses are sending more patients to their doors.
UPMC Western Maryland has set up a medical tent outside their Emergency department doors to “expand care capability” for those coming for emergency treatment.

Public health experts widely predicted a surge in illness around the holidays, and as a result of the highly contagious Omicron…





