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Maine Medical Center ↳ Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital ↳ Maine Medical Partners; MaineHealth Care at Home; Memorial Hospital; NorDx Labs. This free WOW! Health & Wellbeing program is available to employees and their spouse/partners enrolled in a MaineHealth employee health plan. WOW Rewards Alternative Program Schedule Important Info: You may choose a session at any location; however, you'll need to remain in the same locations for all three group visits. Bring the Alternative Program Form with you for the Health Coach to complete. Maine Medical Center. Tuesdays from 5:00-6:30 pm @ East Tower #1.
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We want to hear from our patients, families, and visitors. Please share your stories and connect with others on this page. Read our social media guidelines here: Maine Medical Center (MMC) is a 637-bed community hospital and regional referral center serving the people of greater Portland, Maine and northern New England. MMC's unique role as both a community hospital and a referral center require an unprecedented depth and breadth of services, including an active educational program and world-class research center. As a non-profit institution, MMC provides nearly 23 percent of all charity care delivered in Maine. MMC is a member of the MaineHealth system, a growing family of health care services in southern, central, and western Maine.
Mission: Maine Medical Center is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of the communities it serves by:. Caring for our community. Educating tomorrow's caregivers. Researching new ways to provide care We proudly carry our unique responsibility as Maine's leader in patient care, education, and research. We are dedicated to the traditions and ideals of not-for-profit health care. Our care is available to all who seek it.
Local hospitals busy treating patients who slipped and fell on ice It’s slippery out there! This story on WGME CBS 13 News, Portland is a good reminder to watch your footing as you’re out and about this weekend. And remember, if you do get hurt, our urgent care center, Brighton First Care, is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. With emergency-trained staff to take care of minor injuries. Typically, the wait time is less than going to the ED, too! PORTLAND (WGME) - Sidewalks and driveways are slick in some areas, and local hospitals say they have been busy treating people with injuries from falling on ice.
Doctors say they treated over 250 patients Thursday at Maine Medical Center and Brighton First Care, which is an unprecedented number for. Ready to start a New Year’s Resolution in 2019? If you didn’t manage to keep the one from 2018, you’re not alone. In fact, about 40% of resolutions fail in just their first month (ouch). Want to join us for something a little more manageable? It’s called Small Steps from Let’s Go!, and it’ll help you get closer to a healthier lifestyle - one step at a time. This month, we’ll be sharing tips to get you moving, eating, drinking and resting in healthier ways.
Feel free to join in the conversation and let us know how your Small Steps journey is going! Scarborough lab engages next generation of scientists Did you see this great article in The Forecaster about The Maine Medical Center Research Institute's hands-on program to introduce high school students to biomedical research? Thanks to a grant from the Maine Community Foundation, we're developing a curriculum to expand this program throughout Maine. SCARBOROUGH — Maine Medical Center Research Institute hopes to inspire a new generation to consider careers in biomedicine by introducing high school students to scientists engaged in lifesaving re. Maine Medical Center recognizes the passing of Former President George H.W.
President and Mrs. Bush were important members of the Maine Medical Center family with numerous celebratory visits to the hospital over many decades, including the announcement that Maine’s only children’s hospital would be named in honor of First Lady Barbara Bush in 1995.
“President Bush exemplified leadership, empathy and good will. The state of Maine and Maine Medical Center have lost a close and dear friend.” – Rich Petersen, MMC President and CEO. Vaping on the rise with Maine middle school students NEWS CENTER Maine spoke to BBCH pediatric pulmonologist Colby Wyatt, MD, from Maine Medical Partners - Pediatric Specialty Care, about his concerns with the increase in young people turning to e-cigarettes, and the possible long-term effects of vaping on Maine teens. A new concern from the American Lung Association, that we are at risk of losing another generation to tobacco-caused diseases as the popularity of e-cigarettes grows among high school and middle school students.
Maine Medical Center announced today an extraordinarily generous gift of $4 million provided by Lisa Gorman and the children of L.L. Bean Chairman Emeritus Leon Gorman and their spouses: Jeff and Sonya Gorman, and Jennifer and Bennett Wilson. The gift continues the Gorman family’s tradition of visionary philanthropic giving in Maine and will help make possible the medical center’s vision for providing patients and guests with a welcoming, open and shared space that embodies MMC’s commitment to patient centered care. Vitamin D and Fish Oils Are Ineffective for Preventing Cancer and Heart Disease ICYMI: The largest clinical trial ever done of high-dose vitamin D finds the supplements do not lower cancer rates in healthy older adults. The New York Times spoke with Maine Medical Center Research Institute senior scientist Cliff Rosen, MD, about the study's findings. The largest study to test vitamin D and omega-3 pills in healthy adults found they did little to prevent cardiovascular disease, but hinted at benefits for groups including African-Americans. Holiday sweet potato, sans sugar for the diabetic November is National Diabetes Awareness Month.
It can be hard during the holidays to keep your diabetes or prediabetes in check. Chef Alex Gingrich, director of nutritional services at Maine Behavioral Healthcare, shared this recipe for sweet potato without the sugar with NEWS CENTER Maine: You can learn more about MaineHealth's Diabetes Prevention Program at 661-7294 or visit November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. Chef Alex Gingrich shares a healthier holiday recipe. Congratulations to Maddie Palmer, RN, on Gibson Pavilion, for receiving recognition as a Healthcare Hero! Maddie was nominated by a former patient, who writes: “Maddie, RN, on Gibson, is one of the best nurses I have ever met. And I am a nurse.
Her care and compassion meant so much to me while I was an inpatient – thank you!” Healthcare Heroes, a program through the Philanthropy Department, provides an opportunity for patients and their families to honor someone at MMC or MMP who had a meaningful impact during their experience with our hospital. The long-shot treatment that’s expanding Maine’s frontier of cancer care “What we’re looking to do is to exploit changes on the cancer cell to help kill it. Every single cancer is different in every patient.” - Christopher Darus, MD, director of research in gynecologic oncology at MMC. Darus's practice, along with others in the MaineHealth system, has enrolled 95 patients in the Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative. Patients are tested for more than 150 cancer-related genes that doctors can potentially target. Learn more in The Bangor Daily News: More than 300 patients, including Rob Leighton of Westbrook, are participating in a new initiative that links them with clinical trials and other options, but it's too early to say whether the effort has saved lives.
“Hopefully the tumors continue to shrink and eventually go away,” Leighton sa. At risk for developing diabetes? The Diabetes Prevention Program is a yearlong, lifestyle change program proven to help people cut their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 58%. The program is not designed for people who already have type 2 diabetes. The next program begins Oct. 30 and will met weekly from 5 – 6 p.m.
At the MaineHealth Learning Resource Center at 5 Bucknam Road in Falmouth. For more information about the program and to see a list of classes offered in your area, visit or call (207) 661-7294.