Tyler Tardif — the Midcoast’s first baby of 2025 — was born at 8:14 a.m. on Jan. 1 at MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. Tyler was born to Kristin Michaud and Brandon Tardif of Lewiston. Tyler weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces and was 19 inches long. “Starting the new year off with a bang,” […]
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Registration open for Mid Coast Hospital’s Golf Fore! Health Tournament on Sept. 4
Mid Coast Hospital is hosting its 31st Annual Golf Fore! Health Tournament on Sept. 4 at the Brunswick Golf Club. The funding raised from the event will benefit the hospital’s Center for Community Health & Wellness. The center, located at 329 Maine St. in Brunswick, helps patients learn how to prevent and manage chronic diseases, improve […]
Spark Cycling’s Plunge for the Funds raises $33,000 for ALS clinic
Spark Cycling Studio celebrated its third anniversary on May 11 with the first annual Plunge for the Funds, a fundraiser to support patients at Mid Coast Hospital’s ALS Clinic. In a nod to the viral 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, members of the Spark community solicited donations and pledges to submerge in one of three cold […]
MaineHealth to roll out updated names of hospitals, practices to reflect ‘unified identity’
Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick will be renamed to MaineHealth Mid Coast Hospital.
Parts of Midcoast locked down, schools closed amid search for Lewiston mass shooter
Shelter-in-place orders were issued in some Midcoast communities and schools were closed as police searched for a gunman suspected of killing at least 18 people in Lewiston.
Mid Coast Hospital offering overdose-reversing med to new mothers
Maine set a record for drug overdose deaths in 2022, and hospital officials said they are trying new approaches to stem the tide.
Brunswick homeless shelter receives $500K donation for new facility
Tedford Housing is building the $8.3 million shelter in Brunswick on Thomas Point Road.
With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals
A lack of beds and staffing at assisted living facilities and nursing homes creates an unwelcome situation that benefits neither the languishing patients nor the hospitals shouldering their care.
Maine births ticked up in 2021 but still lag far behind national average
Maine’s fertility rate rose 1.4% in 2021 after a steep drop during the first year of the pandemic, but the state still ranks near the back of the pack nationally.
Mid Coast-Parkview Health President Lois Skillings set to retire
Skillings officially retires Jan. 19, handing the reins over to emergency physician and former Mid Coast-Parkview Chief Medical Officer Dr. Christopher Bowe.