BRIDGTON — A citizens’ group says Central Maine Healthcare is failing the Lakes Region and it’s publicly calling for the health system to give up Bridgton Hospital and affiliated medical practices so they can be taken over by someone else. The Pondicherry Group has 18 core members, including a former Bridgton Hospital executive, a retired […]
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Rumford, Bridgton hospitals get new president
LEWISTON — Five months after the head of Rumford and Bridgton hospitals resigned amid turmoil among those hospitals and Central Maine Healthcare, their parent organization, Rumford and Bridgton have a new leader. Central Maine Healthcare officials announced Thursday that Peter J. Wright, 46, will take over as president starting in mid-March. “I feel strongly that the key […]
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Bridgton, Rumford hospitals honored among nation’s top rural hospitals
LEWISTON — Bridgton and Rumford hospitals have been named among the best rural hospitals in the country. The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that tracks health care safety, quality and value, this week named the two hospitals to its 2018 list of top rural hospitals in the United States. Seventeen made the list nationally, […]
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Tax filing: Retiring Lewiston CEO got bonus despite hospital woes
New 2016 documents also show past financial troubles, spending cuts and salaries at CMMC parent. LEWISTON — When longtime CEO Peter Chalke retired in 2016 from Central Maine Healthcare, its flagship hospital was millions of dollars in the red and Medicare penalized it for the first time for having infection and complication rates that were […]
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Bring back the caring
I, plus my two brothers and their spouses, live in Sebago. Bridgton is our hospital. Our commute time to Bridgton is roughly a third (20 minutes) of the time it would take to go to Lewiston (60 to 80 minutes.) More important is the excellence of the staff; their genuine caring for our well-being; and […]
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Medical sources: Doctors leaving Central Maine Healthcare
Insiders say physicians are bailing for a host of reasons; officials say necessary cuts, new systems, pay talk have prompted departures of about 1 out of 4, but ‘it’s starting to turn.’ LEWISTON — Central Maine Healthcare staff members say things have been bad within the hospital system for a while. In recent months, the […]
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President of Bridgton, Rumford hospitals resigns
LEWISTON — The president of Bridgton and Rumford hospitals — one of the last senior leaders left from Central Maine Healthcare’s previous administration — has resigned. R. David Frum has served as head of Bridgton Hospital since 2010. He was named head of Rumford Hospital in 2011. Frum resigned Wednesday, according to a Central Maine […]
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Bridgton Hospital lashes out at corporate parent
Members of the medical staff at Bridgton Hospital voted unanimously this week that they have no confidence in the CEO of their parent company amid concerns over financial problems and cuts in services, including worries that the obstetrics unit might close. News of potential cuts in services or staff at one of Bridgton’s largest employers […]
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Bridgton Hospital to present organ donor education session
BRIDGTON — New England Donor Services will hold a community education session about organ, eye and tissue donation from 1 to 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, at Bridgton Hospital. More than 116,000 people are on the transplant wait list, and every day 22 people die waiting for a transplant. The need for organ, eye and […]
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Bridgton Hospital welcomes first baby of 2018
Bridgton Hospital welcomed its first baby of 2018, Isaiah William Wyman, at 12:21 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2. Isaiah weighed 7 pounds and was 19 inches long. He is the son of Tyler Wyman and Danielle Parrish of Cornish. Isaiah joins his siblings Leah, Laila and Wyatt. The family received a diaper bag with newborn essentials […]