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News and Events at Penobscot Bay Medical Center Updated: 2010-03-09 11:34:39
PBMC is being honored for its tobacco-free campus policy The hospital and one of its nurses, Sue Low, RN, of Lincolnville, will be recognized for excellence in supporting tobacco-free living later this month at the 2010 Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network Gold Star Standards of Excellence Awards Ceremony. Read more now. Pen Bay Pediatrics: New Extended, Family-Friendly Hours Beginning March 1, Pen Bay Pediatrics will be seeing patients from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, and 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday & Sunday. Read more now.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center is joining all other hospitals in Maine to systematically gather data on the burden of methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) bacteria in our community. Read press release. Pen Bay Internal Medicine Welcomes Dr. Neal Yetman He joins the practice as an internist and is accepting new patients. Dr. Yetman is a graduate of Bowdoin College and has a degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Mass., a teaching hospital associated with Harvard Medical School. Read more.
Pen Bay Internal Medicine Welcomes Dr. Denise Anderson She joins the practice as an internist; she is accepting new patients. She first came to Maine to work in Fort Kent at Northern Maine Medical Center as part of a National Health Service Scholarship she received while in medical school. Then she decided she wanted to stay in Maine. Read more.
PBMC Stroke Program Maintains Highest National Standards Did you know PBMC was the first of three hospitals in Maine to have achieved Primary Stroke Center Certification from the Joint Commission, an independent overseer of medical care quality? The Stroke Program was recently recertified, demonstrating the continued maintenance of high national standards. Read more. Nursing Education and Retention, a Pen Bay Priority, Gets $500K in Federal Funding A nursing education and retention initiative at Penobscot Bay Medical Center will be getting a boost from $500,000 in federal funds. Learn more.
Childbirth Education for 2010: pbmc.org/childbirtheducation Rockland native Julie Hedrich Hurley has returned to the Midcoast as a family practice physician at Pen Bay Family Medicine. Read more.
A new surgeon, Dr. Cristan Anderson, has joined the Pen Bay family. Read more. Pen Bay Healthcare welcomes a new orthopedist, Dr. Douglas Macmichael, to the active medical staff at PBMC. Read more. Use the links below to read more PBMC news.
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