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  • St. Mary’s Health System Celebrates their Education Stars
                    St. Mary’s employees Jason Rosenberg, Therese St. Pierre, Jordon Bosse, and Evie Taylor were part of a recent College for Maine Androscoggin recognition celebration. These employees are engaged in their own professional growth as well as supporting the growth of others.  They are instrumental in teaching others [...]
  • “Never let go of hope” – Update on one of our Haiti Outreach Partners
    The St. Boniface Haiti Foundation strives to improve life for the poor of Haiti by facilitating access to quality, affordable health care, educational opportunities and community development programs.  Their goal is to create a model of successful, sustainable development in rural Haiti that relies on local leadership and work force and that can be replicated [...]
  • St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion Selects New Director of Admissions
     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/17/12 St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion recently welcomed Lucinda Houston, RN to the leadership team as the new Director of Admissions. Lucinda comes to the St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion with extensive clinical experience in medical/surgical, oncology, cardiology and case management. For more than 20 years, she has worked in both the acute and [...]
  • St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion Earns a Five-Star Quality Rating!
      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/20/11 St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion has earned the highest quality rating – five out of five stars – from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This national quality rating system was created by CMS to help consumers and their families compare and choose a quality nursing facility. The rating [...]
  • Radon and Lung Cancer: Get the Facts
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/03/12 You think you’ve done all the right things to prevent lung cancer: you don’t smoke, you eat well, and you exercise regularly, but have you ever checked your home for radon? Radon is a colorless, odorless gas that the EPA estimates is responsible for 20,000 cases of lung cancer in the [...]
  • The February 2012 Online Wellness Center Page is Now Available!
    Heart Health It’s good to follow your heart. Follow it to the grocery store to buy low saturated fat foods and extra fruits and vegetables. Follow it to the gym or on a long, brisk, walk around the neighborhood. Follow it to your doctor’s office to have it listened to on a regular basis. Follow [...]
  • Cuts to MaineCare Are Cuts to Our Entire Community
    Your hospitals need your voice. By Laird Covey, President,                Central Maine Medical Center and Lee Myles, President, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center have been serving the residents of Androscoggin County and beyond for well over 100 years.  Our quality is strong and continues to [...]
  • Farewell and Thank You Robert Bruce and David Skavdahl for Pioneering the Medical Student Program...
    Your hospitals need your voice. By Laird Covey, President,                Central Maine Medical Center and Lee Myles, President, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center have been serving the residents of Androscoggin County and beyond for well over 100 years.  Our quality is strong and continues to [...]
  • Sam’s Italian Foods Works to End Hunger in Our Community
     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/10/12 Thirteen of Sam’s Italian Foods locations, headquartered in Lewiston, Maine, participated in fund-raising for local food pantries throughout the month of November. By asking their customers if they would like to donate one dollar toward ending hunger they raised $4,000. The top fund-raising shops were in Brunswick and Waterville. Locally St. [...]
  • Join HealthSteps at St. Mary’s for Lose with Me!
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/04/12 Want to lose some weight? Don’t go it alone, let HealthSteps, an award winning health education and exercise program, help you. Join them for Lose with Me! a 12-week session focused on helping you obtain and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Classes are taught by registered and licensed dietitian Jamie Thompson and [...]

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