Restricting activity in the state has flattened the COVID-19 curve and taken the pressure off hospitals, a Press Herald analysis finds, but dangers remain.
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Maine Acts of Kindness: Portland hotel donates 50 rooms to health care workers
Clarion Hotel is providing space at no cost so Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital employees on the coronavirus front line can rest and recharge.
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Maine Medical Center further restricts visitation
The Portland hospital is prohibiting visitors, except under strict rules to limit potential exposure to coronavirus.
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Maine Medical Center restricts visits amid coronavirus outbreak
The state’s largest hospital limits visitors to one per patient and will screen all visitors for sickness at the main entrance.
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Maine Med didn’t protect 2 patients from abuse, authorities say
The hospital filed a corrective plan and the employees associated with the incidents no longer work there.
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First baby born at Maine Medical Center arrives 24 minutes into new year
Eleen Mustafa Aldulaimi was the first baby born at the Portland hospital, followed soon after by Benson Steven Rodney Farley, born in Presque Isle.
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Camden National donates to local hospitals
The bank pledges $250,000 to Maine Med’s modernization project.
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Maine Med set to open 64 rooms for cancer patients in new tower
The hospital’s $534 million expansion and renovation, which includes the Coulombe Family Tower, is expected to be completed by 2022.
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Maine Med gets approval for $59 million medical office building in Scarborough
The town’s planning board clears the way for the new Maine Medical Partners building at its Route 1 campus.
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MMC research leads to toolkit for naloxone education
PORTLAND — The MaineHealth system has launched a toolkit to promote overdose awareness and education after research found internal medicine clinics were not consistently prescribing naloxone to patients at high risk for an opioid overdose. A research paper led by Maine Medical Center physicians David Kispert, Jenny Carwile and Kinna Thakarar, found that between April […]