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Maine Medical Center further restricts visitation

The Portland hospital is prohibiting visitors, except under strict rules to limit potential exposure to coronavirus.

The state’s largest hospital limits visitors to one per patient and will screen all visitors for sickness at the main entrance.

The hospital filed a corrective plan and the employees associated with the incidents no longer work there.

Eleen Mustafa Aldulaimi was the first baby born at the Portland hospital, followed soon after by Benson Steven Rodney Farley, born in Presque Isle.

The hospital’s $534 million expansion and renovation, which includes the Coulombe Family Tower, is expected to be completed by 2022.

The town’s planning board clears the way for the new Maine Medical Partners building at its Route 1 campus.

The generator is in a separate building on the hospital campus, and a hospital spokeswoman said patients were not affected.

by Clifford J. Rosen and Ann L. Elderkin September 24, 2019December 27, 2019

Stepped-up screening and treatment will ease the toll of osteoporosis, both personally and economically.

The federal grant will be used to conduct of a study of a specific type of gene in hopes of developing new ways to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes

The trend mirrors a statewide decrease in overdose deaths, with improved access to Suboxone and naloxone.