Stories about Eastern Maine Medical Center
Eastern Maine Medical Center’s head doctor takes on expanded role
on May 15, 2013, at 7:39 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — Dr. James Raczek, chief medical officer at Eastern Maine Medical Center, has accepted an expanded role at the hospital as senior vice president and chief operating officer. Raczek’s new role gives him ultimate responsibility for hospital operations, including the nursing and support service divisions at EMMC, in ...
Autopsy of Bangor man shocked with Taser reveals bath salts overdose
BANGOR, Maine — A local man who was stunned by Bangor police using a Taser last September after he consumed synthetic bath salts and was “out of control” died as a result of complications from overdosing on the lab-made drug, his autopsy report states. The man’s father disagrees with the ...
Hospitals take on building projects despite MaineCare debt
As drivers pass through Augusta on Interstate 95, Maine’s newest hospital comes into view just off Exit 113. Four stories of brick and gleaming glass now stand in what was once a grassy field, a $322 million project just months away from opening to patients as the Alfond Center for ...
DHHS greenlights sale of EMMC dialysis clinics to national chain
BANGOR, Maine — Eastern Maine Medical Center has cleared the final regulatory hurdle in a more than $17 million deal to sell its dialysis clinics to one of the country’s largest for-profit dialysis chains. State Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew this week granted Colorado-based DaVita Inc. ...
EMMC’s new pediatric cancer clinic to open in December
BREWER, Maine — Fire trucks from more than a dozen area fire departments will converge Saturday at CancerCare of Maine to support the construction of a new pediatric cancer floor. Local firefighters have rallied behind the $3.4 million project, which will relocate Eastern Maine Medical Center’s children’s cancer and blood ...
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Bangor police, EMMC reviewing death of man shocked with stun gun
BANGOR, Maine — Officials from the Bangor Police Department and Eastern Maine Medical Center both said Friday that they are conducting internal investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 28-year-old Bangor man who died while in police custody. Phillip McCue, who had a history of mental illness and ...
EMMC program to reduce blood transfusions draws international interest
BANGOR, Maine — Eastern Maine Medical Center is hosting physicians and researchers from abroad this month who are interested in the hospital’s work to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions. On Monday, a team from western Australia visited Bangor for a hands-on introduction to EMMC’s “patient blood management program,” which began in ...
Maine child abuse likely under-reported because law lacks training rules, expert says
If the mandated reporters are not trained, the system doesn’t work, says the executive director of the National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children.
Eastern Maine Medical Center doctor dies overseas at age 44
BANGOR, Maine — Dr. Georg L. Rymph, a physician at Eastern Maine Medical Center, died at the age of 44 on Monday while overseas in Sri Lanka, the hospital said Tuesday. A memo sent to EMMC physicians Tuesday said hospital personnel have no details about Rymph’s death “other than it ...
Penobscot Community Health Care joins effort to improve health of Medicare patients
BREWER, Maine — Penobscot Community Health Care is the latest Maine health organization to join a national effort that rewards doctors for keeping their patients healthy and happy. PCHC announced Monday that it will join Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems’ “accountable care organization,” a group of providers tasked with better coordinating ...
Sale of EMMC dialysis clinics stirs concerns about patient safety
BANGOR, Maine — The proposed sale of Eastern Maine Medical Center’s dialysis clinics to a for-profit corporation roused concerns Tuesday about the safety of patients seriously ill with kidney disease. The hospital has signed a letter of intent with Colorado-based DaVita Inc., one of the country’s largest for-profit dialysis chains, ...
Mainers encouraged to use caution, be a good neighbor when using fireworks
NEWPORT, Maine — For Cedric O’Donnell, business has been steady since his Newport Fireworks store opened along Route 7 a couple of weeks ago. O’Donnell still was adding shelves to his store last week while people waited in line to buy various fireworks they held in their hands and arms, ...
Maine launches first-in-the-nation medical image archive
Maine doctors will have access to patient X-rays, mammograms and other medical images regardless of their location as part of a new electronic archive described as a nationwide first. The archive is expected to free health care providers from the hassle and cost of copying scans to CDs when a ...
EMMC nurses union sets date for contract vote
BANGOR, Maine — The union representing roughly 850 registered nurses employed at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor has set a date for a vote on hospital administrators’ final contract offer. Voting will take place from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29, at the Bangor Motor Inn ...
EMMC nurses gearing up for informational picket
BANGOR, Maine — Union nurses and their supporters will conduct an informational picket Tuesday at Eastern Maine Medical Center. The event is set for 4-8 p.m. and will include a news conference, the nurses said in an announcement issued on Friday. EMMC administrators and members of the Maine State Nurses ...
EMMC neonatal nurses renew bonds with extended families
BANGOR, Maine — Lisa Barnett, a clinical nurse in Eastern Maine Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit, has three children of her own, but in her mind the number is probably close to 100. Then again, it may be even more. Barnett and many of the other 74 doctors and ...
Number of US babies born suffering from drug withdrawals triples
By LINDSEY TANNER, The Associated Press on April 30, 2012, at 4:15 p.m.
CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction ...
12-hour dance at UMaine to benefit pediatric care
The Associated Press on March 31, 2012, at 12:06 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — University of Maine students are kicking up their heels in the name of pediatric health care. More than 500 students are taking part in a 12-hour dance marathon being held at the university field house in Orono. The event kicks off Saturday night and ends 12 hours ...
Nurse’s dog does the job on her days off
People’s lives are rich with variety. It is often difficult to decide which chapter of a life will reveal the heart of someone’s story in a single column. In the case of family nurse practitioner Corinne Chabot, it was easy. This is a story about a relationship of profound mutual ...
Performance sparking a discussion about death
on Oct. 19, 2011, at 9:01 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — The nationally-acclaimed Readers Theater troupe will perform “End of Life” at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at Husson University’s Gracie Theater. Readers Theater uses Greek drama to spark community dialogue about contemporary public health issues. The production will provide an ancient perspective on ethically complex situations in ...
Police find remains believed to be Nichole Cable, 15, in Old Town woods
Orono man facing murder charge in connection with death of missing Glenburn teen
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