On April 30, 2010 the 1st Vice President Keith Fairfax and I were invited to the ground breaking ceremony for the new J. Patrick Jarboe Medical Center at 22590 Shady Court in California, Maryland. The new medical center is off of Buck Hewitt Road just down from Lexington Park Rescue Squad's Station 38. The building will be a beautiful 3 story professional center that will house many different doctors' offices along with some out patient services.

The building is being built by Wayne Davis who built our station in Lexington Park. It will be named after one of the most loved doctors in the county J. Patrick Jarboe. The medical center is being built for Shah Associates who have several medical centers located in St. Mary's County one of them being the Bean building in Hollywood another in Charlotte Hall and one in Leonardtown, Maryland. I think that the doctors that are currently working out of the Breton Medical located in the San Sousi shopping center are going to be moving into this facility when it is completed sometime later this year. If you have every seen a building that Wayne Davis builds you know that he gets the job done without wasting time so I expect it will be done in the fall of this year.

A very nice reception followed in the J. T. Daugherty Conference Center. There were many dignitaries in attendance with the honorable Steny Hoyer being one of the guest speakers along with Doctor V. K. Shah and Doctor Jarboe. There were so many secret service guys around Steny that I couldn't get to close for a picture but I did manage to get a couple. All the county commissioners were there even the ones that are not running for anything at election time. I know that it was to honor a man who has done so much during his long career working as a doctor in the county. Doctor Jarboe was always a friend of the emergency medical services in the county and I'm pretty sure that he was the first medical director of the St. Mary's County Medic Unit and helped to get it started and grow into what it is today. I'm sure that there are many of you out there today that either had a baby delivered (I had two daughters) by Doctor Jarboe or where yourself treated one way or another by him. I know that he has been practicing medicine here in the county for over 40 years if not close to 50. Although he is semi-retired he does take care of some of his older patients because he told me that they won't go to anyone else.

Congratulations to Doctor J. Patrick Jarboe and all your family. May you practice for another 50 years.