LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Health System is ending its once-popular HealthSteps program. For good this time. St. Mary’s this week notified members that the program, which offers an array of fitness classes for adults, will end Aug. 31. Spokesman Jason Gould said participation has dropped steadily in recent years. A summer session three years ago, […]
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St. Mary’s nurse to start weight-loss center
LEWISTON — A nurse at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center is going out on her own to re-create at least part of the hospital’s soon-to-close weight management program. Cindy Scribner, a nurse practitioner who has worked for that weight management program for two years, is looking for space to set up NorthStar Wellness Group. She […]
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Patients angry over St. Mary’s ending of weight loss program
LEWISTON — Over the years, Ethel Bowden had tried everything she could think of to lose weight. Weight Watchers. Exercise programs. Semi-fasting. More exercise. Bowden could lose weight, but it never stayed off for long. She got bored or tired or just did not have the support she needed to keep going. Then, about a […]
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St. Mary's holding open interviews for RNs, CNAs
LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston will host registered nurse and certified nursing assistant open interviews from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 22, for d’Youville Pavilion, 102 Campus Ave., in the residential dining room on the second floor. Qualified RNs and CNAs, of all experience levels, are invited to attend, […]
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Sandra M. Caron
AUBURN — Sandra M. Caron, 65, of Lisbon, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 22, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn. She was born in Lewiston on Sept. 2, 1952, the daughter of the late Marcel and Marie (Lavoie) Rousseau. She attended local schools, graduating from St. Dominic Regional High School in the Class of 1970. […]
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Theresa M. James
LEWISTON — Theresa M. James “Terry”, 60, of Lewiston, passed away Sunday, Nov. 12, at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, following a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Lewiston on March 24, 1957, she was the fifth of 16 children to Roland and Rosalie Knowlton Pomerleau. Educated in Lisbon schools, Terry was a graduate of Lisbon […]
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Franklin Memorial Hospital safety scores jump
Franklin Memorial Hospital is one of Maine’s highest-rated hospitals, according to The Leapfrog Group. (Morning Sentinel file photo) FARMINGTON — Franklin Memorial Hospital is once again one of Maine’s highest-rated hospitals, a turnaround one year after its rating fell to one of the worst. The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that tracks health care […]
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St. Mary's $12M project creates new psych units
LEWISTON — On the children’s psychiatric unit at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, nurses looking out of their enclosed station face a wall and a few rooms. To see down the hallway — where a child might be yelling or crying or trying to hurt herself — they have to leave the station and peer […]
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Albert Lepage to donate $10 million to St. Mary's Health System
Albert Lepage poses at Tulane University, his alma mater. Lepage donated $12.5 million to Tulane’s business school in 2015. This week, St. Mary’s Health System announced he’s donating $10 million to the hospital system to improve the patient experience. (Rick Olivier and Tulane University) LEWISTON — The Albert Lepage Foundation will donate $10 million to […]
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St. Mary's interim president ready to work
LEWISTON — Peter Holden knows hospitals. He was the youngest hospital CEO in the country when he took over Clifton-Fine Hospital in Star Lake, New York, at age 23. He’s led big medical centers and small ones, troubled ones and successful ones. Hospitals have been his life’s work for 40 years. But when he walked […]