Company Profile
TidalHealth
Company Overview
TidalHealth encompasses the former Peninsula Regional Health System - Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, McCready Memorial, the Peninsula Regional Medical Group, Nanticoke Physician Network, Delmarva Heart, Peninsula Cardiology. These entities and more are pulling together to make sure every person on Delmarva has a channel of care close to home, with a consistent, quality experience, and the ability to access high-level specialties such as neurosurgery and clinical research that might not be available to smaller-scale providers. We really are better together, and our combined forces are working to bring a strong, reliable network of care to our community.
Company History
TidalHealth Peninsula Regional
In the early 1890s, Dr. George W. Todd was making an increasing number of house calls on a growing population in and around the Salisbury area. With his team of six and an open buggy, there were many nights he would return home with his heavy beard soaked by rain or frozen stiff by the cold, and his horses too tired to reach the stable.
Dr. Todd understood the loss of his horse team would be the demise of his business, and medicine couldn’t continue to be practiced as it had for decades. He, a simple country doctor but a man of great vision and leadership, began a campaign to build a regional hospital in his hometown. Dr. Todd enlisted senators, leading businessmen of the era and a community that contributed lemonade glasses, washbowls, oyster crackers, a tub and cakes.
On October 1, 1897, in a six-bedroom home within shouting distance of where TidalHealth Peninsula Regional now stands, Dr. Todd opened Peninsula General Hospital. Here, his grandson performed the region’s first open-heart procedure in 1974, and his great-grandson started practicing emergency medicine two decades later.
From necessity, and in this case "straight from the horse’s mouth", came one of healthcare’s most influential advancements on the Delmarva Peninsula: a heritage of caring that continues today with the same diligence and pride demonstrated by the founding fathers and mothers so many years before.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Recent Awards & Recognition Snapshot
June 2020
Healthgrades presents Patient Safety Award to TidalHealth Nanticoke.
May 2020
Blue Cross Blue Shield Care First designates TidalHealth Peninsula Regional as a Blue Distinction Center+ for Spine Surgery.
February 2020
Blue Cross Blue Shield Care First designates TidalHealth Peninsula Regional as a Blue Distinction Center+ for Hip and Knee Replacement.
Healthgrades names TidalHealth Peninsula Regional one of America’s BEST 250 Hospitals for the third consecutive year. Top 5% in the Nation. Only hospital on the Delmarva Peninsula to achieve the honor. One of just 10 in Maryland.
Healthgrades presents TidalHealth Peninsula Regional with 37 clinical achievement awards for the care it provides to patients. Among them, One of America’s Best 50 Hospitals for Vascular Surgery and 100 Best America’s Hospitals for Prostate Surgery, GI Care and General Surgery. Top 5% or 10% in the nation in Pulmonary Care, GI Care, General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Prostate Surgery, Critical Care, Orthopedics and Neurosciences.
January 2020
TidalHealth Peninsula Regional is one of just eight hospitals in Maryland, and the only on the Delmarva Peninsula, to be awarded a Five-Star rating – the highest possible by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Only 8.9% of the 4,500 hospitals in the survey, 407 including TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, achieved a five-star rating.