“I love people, and my health is good, so I’m happy to do what I can,” said Grace Carr, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, who has worked at the same hospital for 80 years.
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Lawmakers mull bill to limit nurse-to-patient ratios in Maine hospitals
The legislation is intended to reduce the patient load for overworked nurses, but hospital officials say the bill would do nothing to address a shortage of clinicians.
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Central Maine Medical Center nurse receives distinguished DAISY Award
LEWISTON — Katherine Gagnon, a registered nurse in oncology at Central Maine Medical Center, has been presented with the DAISY Award, an international recognition program. Gagnon was nominated by the wife of a cancer patient. A second nomination came from a patient being cared for at CMMC. The patient described how Katherine advocated for her, looked […]
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Central Maine Medical Center nurse receives DAISY award
LEWISTON — Lacey Fogg, a registered nurse at Central Maine Medical Center, has been chosen to receive the DAISY Award. The international recognition program rewards and celebrates the extraordinarily compassionate and skillful care nurses give their patients every day. Fogg was nominated by Stephanie Mergenthaler, the daughter of one of Lacey’s patients. In her nomination […]
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Rebecca M. Howard
LEWISTON — Rebecca M. Howard, 74, of Lewiston, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 29, at D’Youville Pavilion with her family by her side. She was born in Hickory, North Carolina on Dec. 3, 1942, to the late James Burch Jr. and Alice Burch. On March 18, 1966, she married Elmer Howard in Cherokee County, N.C. Soon […]
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Marcia Fuller
AUBURN — Marcia Fuller, 62, of Peru, died Wednesday afternoon at the Hospice House. She was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 30, 1955, a daughter of Dean and Margaret (Geyer) Temple. She was educated as both a nurse and a teacher, and had most recently taught at Tripp Middle School. She is survived by a son; […]
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Valerie Spence
SOUTH PARIS — Valerie Spence, 63, passed away peacefully at her home in South Paris on Aug. 3. She was born in Willimantic, Conn., to the late Ernest J. Tarckini and Johanna Opitiz. After graduating from high school, Valerie joined the U.S. Army, serving as a nurse during the Vietnam War. Always upbeat and positive, Valerie […]
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Jay woman who survived horrific crash getting her life back
Lauren Faeth survived a horrific car accident and overcame a traumatic brain injury five years ago to go to college and become a nurse. This week, the 23-year-old from Jay is taking her nursing board exams. The next day, she’s having her right leg amputated below the knee. She calls it part of getting her life […]
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Livermore nurse sends medical supplies, clothes to helps Ukraine soldiers
Cook, 60, a Ukrainian American, has family and friends in the country. Her parents came from Ukraine to Canada, then to the United States, where her father enlisted in the U.S. Army in World War II and saw combat in Germany. She is a first-generation Ukrainian American, born in California. She wears a paracord bracelet […]
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People You Know: Nurse and nurse-teacher Bonnie Colby
LEWISTON — Bonnie Colby spent more than two decades at Central Maine Medical Center in a unit with sick, scared patients — people with chest pain, heart failure, atrial fibrillation — and talks about loving the work. Now, she brings her students to the very same unit to learn on the job. She graduated from then-Central […]