The 2-year-old was found Tuesday afternoon in a small farm pond off James Road and airlifted to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, according to officials.
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Sustainable seafood at CMMC
After working Wednesday morning with the kitchen staff at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Barton Seaver, founder and chief education officer of the Coastal Culinary Academy of Portland, hands out samples of a simple dish using sustainable seafood. Samples of the slow-roasted hake on baked sweet potato rounds topped with pesto was a hit among […]
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Conditions at Riverview better, safer for patients, workers, report says
Conditions at the state psychiatric hospital in Augusta have improved over the last year for both patients and the people who care for them, according to the latest reports from both the court master who oversees them and the institution itself. “The care and safety provided by the hospital has definitely improved,” wrote Daniel Wathen, […]
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George H. W. Bush discharged from hospital
Former President George H. W. Bush has been discharged from Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford, his spokesman announced Monday afternoon on Twitter. The summer resident of Kennebunkport checked into the hospital last week with low blood pressure. Bush is spending his first summer in Maine since the death of his wife Barbara this spring. […]
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George H.W. Bush is eager to get well, go to Kennebunkport
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said. Jim McGrath said Monday on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is “responding to treatments and appears to be recovering.” He was admitted Sunday morning to Houston Methodist […]
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Bad bedside manner: Bank loans signed in the hospital leave patients vulnerable
Laura Cameron, three months pregnant, tripped and fell in a parking lot and landed in the emergency room in May. She was flat on her back — scared, in pain and attached to a saline drip — when a hospital representative came by to discuss how she would pay her bill. Though both Cameron and […]
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Calling me 'sweetie' won't help me save your life.
“Sweetheart, you’re too young to understand,” my patient — a man in his 60s, someone accustomed to commanding a room — barked at me from his hospital bed. Medical problems had recently upended his life, and he was having a hard time adjusting. “I can’t believe I have to talk about this stuff to a […]
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Motorcycle crash sends two to hospital
LISBON — A driver and passenger were injured in a crash Saturday night when the motorcycle on which they were riding went off the road and hit a tree, according to a news release from the Lisbon Police Department. Driver Linden Houle, 43, of Lisbon and passenger Michelle Pinette, 39, of Durham were riding a […]
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Riverview report focuses on staffing shortage
AUGUSTA — Staffing shortages at the state-run Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta have led the court master who oversees the state’s mental health system to order a series of changes. In a Monday filing in Kennebec County Superior Court, Daniel Wathen recommended that Riverview take several specific actions to address chronic staffing shortages and ordered […]
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Rumford Hospital celebrates 180 days without patient fall
RUMFORD — Six months after implementing a new patient fall-prevention program, Rumford Hospital has hit a milestone most hospitals dream of reaching. More than 30 employees, ranging from registered nurses and certified nursing assistants to therapy staff and environmental services staff, met in the Rumford Hospital conference room Monday afternoon for a ceremony celebrating 180 […]