The Portland hospital was awarded over $725,000 as part of an initiative to expand the physician workforce in rural areas.
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MaineHealth gives employees in Portland area free bus passes
About 10,000 workers can ride public buses in Portland and South Portland for free as part of a traffic-calming initiative by the health care company.
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Maine Med patient proves after surgery that necessity is the mother of invention
Mechanical engineer Bob Hussey used zip ties and the cover of a telephone jack to improve an ostomy bag he was using after having his colon removed. His device now has a patent pending and is being refined as part of the hospital’s innovation program.
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Maine Med to share federal grant that will get cardiac patients into research trials
About 200 Mainers will participate in national trials through a partnership on a $3.9 million grant with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
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Maine Med gets $2.2 million grant to study potential link between common chemicals and teenage obesity
The research will look into possible relationships between childhood obesity and osteoporosis among children exposed to PFAS.
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Bottled breast milk program expands to Maine Med, and other hospitals may follow
The health benefits of breastfeeding are widely recognized, so the state’s largest hospital is making bottled breast milk available to mothers who can’t immediately breastfeed their infants.
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New president of Maine Med says hospitals can’t go it alone
Jeffrey Sanders believes collaboration with the community is the key to improving the state’s health care landscape.
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Maine Medical Center plans $59 million medical office building in Scarborough
The 108,000-square-foot building on the hospital’s Scarborough campus would house neurological and other medical specialties.
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Portland Planning Board OKs 3rd and final phase of Maine Med expansion
The hospital first must complete work on a new staff parking facility before it can raze its Gilman Street garage and begin work on a 265,000-square-foot building scheduled to be finished in 2022.
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L.L. Bean’s Gorman family donates $4 million for new lobby in Maine Med expansion
The lobby will be named after former Bean president Leon Gorman, and the donation toward a modern medical services facility is a gift ‘to the people of Maine,’ his widow says.