Expanded Role Announced for UM SRH’s Zack Royston

Expanded Role Announced for UM SRH’s Zack Royston

EASTON, Md. (March 26, 2026) –University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH), a member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System, recently announced an expanded role for Zack Royston, Vice President, Rural Health Care Transformation and Executive Director, UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown.

“In an era of rapid change in health care - marked by an increasing responsibility for improving the health and wellness of the populations served - UM Shore Regional Health is intentionally leveraging local expertise to support our continued success,” said Ken Kozel, President, UM SRH.

Royston now has oversight of Population Health in addition to his Rural Health responsibilities and his leadership of the Chestertown campus. In this expanded capacity, Royston serves as the key executive overseeing Shore's Population Health, Case Management, Community Health and value-based care initiatives.

“Zack’s prior experience as UMMS Director of Clinical Integration for Population Health Services positions him well to help lead this important transformation,” said Kozel.

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About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
A member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. UM SRH consists of approximately 2,000 team members, including more than 600 health care providers on the Medical Staff, who work with community partners to advance the values that are foundational to our mission: Compassion, Discovery, Excellence, Diversity and Integrity. For more information, visit https://www.umms.org/shore.

About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.