PORTLAND, Maine – Franklin Memorial Hospital, Maine Medical Center, Mid Coast Hospital, Pen Bay Medical Center and Southern Maine Health Care have each received a fall 2021…
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There was some sobering news last week regarding our health care system, including here at LincolnHealth. At a news conference featuring leaders from across our MaineHealth system, including…
This year, Pine Tree Society brought back one of its most popular holiday cards, featuring “Schooner in the Harbor” by Maine artist Richard Hasenfus. His first holiday card design for Pine Tree…
The Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary Holiday Bazaar and Wreath Sale is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside of the Mid Coast Hospital Medical Office Building, 121Medical…
Kari London, Pharm D, will be the featured speaker at the Diabetes support group on Thursday, Nov. 11, from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. via Zoom. LincolnHealth offers these meetings free of charge every…
MaineHealth
MaineHealth is projected to receive $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for up to four years to participate in a nationwide study of the long-term effects of COVID-19.…
LincolnHealth reported 46 COVID-19 cases out of 613 tests for the week of Oct. 25. The slight increase of both numbers from the previous week’s 39 cases out of 551 tests made for a bump up from 7.…
The state of Maine has adjusted its training for certified nursing assistants for the first time in several years, allowing those interested in being certified to move through the program much…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth announced new COVID-19 vaccine booster distribution plans Oct. 26. Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson boosters will be available by appointment only for Lincoln County…
MaineHealth
MaineHealth’s leaders said Oct. 26 in a virtual conference they expect capacity challenges for the region’s health care industry to persist in the months ahead. They asked for understanding from…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth reported 46 new cases of COVID-19 out of 561 tests for the week of Oct. 11. While the percent positive rose 1.3% since the previous week, breakthrough cases – those who are…
The Boothbay Region Health Center will be offering flu shots both by appointment and walk-in from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28. We have both regular flu shots and senior (…
LincolnHealth, along with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department and Damariscotta Police Department, will be participating in the Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Takeback Day this Saturday,…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth reported 38 cases out of 551 tests for the week of Oct. 4. Testing numbers remained the same as the week before, but with seven fewer cases, dropping the positivity rate from 8.17%…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), Maine Forest Service (MFS), and 211 Maine remind Maine residents and visitors about how to limit health risks posed by browntail…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth reported 45 new cases of COVID-19 from 551 tests for the week of Sept. 27. Testing was down significantly and cases slightly compared to the previous week’s 859 tests and 57 positive…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth reported 57 COVID-19 cases out of 859 tests for the week of Sept. 20. With test numbers down slightly and cases down significantly, the positivity rate lowered to 6.64% from 9.4%…
Healthy Kids and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department will hold a gun safety event on Oct. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon at the American Legion Hall, 527 Main St. Damariscotta. According to the…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth staff administered 88 influenza vaccinations via drive-through at St. Andrews Urgent Care in Boothbay Harbor and 208 at the Miles campus in Damariscotta Sept. 25. The clinics were…
LincolnHealth reported record-setting COVID-19 numbers for the week of Sept. 13 with 83 positive cases from 883 tests. Nearly half of the cases were of those under 18 and about a third of all…
Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission (LCRPC) in collaboration with Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency (LCEMA) are requesting public comment on the 2021 Hazard Mitigation Plan update…
Lincoln Medical Partners
LincolnHealth begins its annual flu vaccination clinics this Saturday, with drive-up events in Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta.
Clinics will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays…
MaineHealth
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded MaineHealth $940,140 Sept. 20 for studying how to expand access to regular COVID-19 testing for Maine’s immigrant, low-income and homeless…
As COVID-19 continues, Maine’s battle with opioid addiction rages on
Maine lost 18,000 years of life last year to opioid overdoses. That’s what Oliver Bradeen, executive director of Milestone Recovery in Portland, calculates based on average life expectancy and the…
LincolnHealth reported 42 positive COVID-19 cases for Sept. 6-12, a record number for a one-week period since the beginning of the pandemic. The positivity rate rose to 8.55% with 491 tests and 14…
Despite recent increases in hourly wages and offering additional sign-on bonuses to new employees, LincolnHealth is still struggling with staffing shortages, forcing some temporary changes in…
LincolnHealth
LincolnHealth begins its annual flu vaccination clinics, with three successive Saturday drive-up events in Boothbay Harbor and Damariscotta.
Participants stay in their vehicle for…
LincolnHealth reported 21 new cases out of 485 tests for the week of Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. Totals remain steady while the amount of testing has varied over the past several weeks resulting in…
“J Edward Knight will now be advising our clients on their Medicare plan options,” said Robert Wheeler, president of J. Edward Knight, in a news release.
Wheeler went on to say: “After…
An hour and a half into a fundraiser for Dean Snell Cancer Foundation Saturday, Laila Dicus had walked 10 laps over the Wiscasset Speedway track. And the Wiscasset 14-year-old was still smiling,…
Maine is still in an outbreak, but a cool, wet spring could knock down the irritating insects.
Next summer may be just as itchy and painful as this one.
After one of Maine’s worst browntail moth seasons, there are signs already that 2022 could continue a years-long outbreak of the…
PRESS RELEASE
The Mills Administration announced Sept. 2 $146 million in state and federal funding for Maine nursing and residential care facilities, adult family care homes, and hospitals. The funds will…
LincolnHealth reported 20 new cases of COVID-19 for the week of Aug. 23; 381 tests were administered, down from 456 the previous week, bringing the percent-positive up to 5.25%.
Director…
As Lulu the Lunch Wagon made her last run for the summer on Aug. 26, staff at Healthy Lincoln County and many area volunteers had provided more than 30,000 free meals to children in Knox and…
LincolnHealth reported 21 COVID-19 cases out of 456 tests for the week of Aug. 16. The numbers are down from 39 cases and 514 tests during the previous week and the percent-positive is down from 7…
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday that 80 percent of all eligible people in Maine have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, achieving another milestone for the state…
THE POWER OF LIVE PERFORMANCE TO ADDRESS THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC
ROCKLAND — Never Leaving This Boat—Fragments of a Blues Opera, a provocative and challenging new work by Maine-based playwright Michael Gorman will premiere during National Recovery Month…
Alna selectmen
Alna selectmen have decided, if someone, vaccinated or not, and not legally exempt from face coverings, enters a building the town owns, for now they must wear one. If they don’t, the person in…
Cross cultural and religious perspectives on aging and death will be the focus of the Inn Along the Way’s third summer “Challenging Conversation Circles” series. The program is…
LincolnHealth reported a spike of 39 positive COVID-19 cases for the week of Aug. 9. The data represents the most cases in a single week for LincolnHealth since before Dec. 2020, the most tests…
Press release
With aging facilities, delinquent reimbursements, regulations and staffing shortages, LincolnHealth continues to evaluate all options to sustain nursing home care in Lincoln County.
The…
LincolnHealth reported Aug. 11 a jump of 20 positive COVID-19 cases for the week of Aug. 2. The 424 tests over the week brings testing rates nearly to mid-May levels; the percent-positive tests…
The emergency need for lifesaving blood continues this summer. Binnie Media is supporting the American Red Cross through this challenging time with their 4th annual Out For Blood event with…
LincolnHealth reported an uptick in COVID-19 testing and positive cases Aug. 3. After a three-week streak of no positive cases ended July 12 with a single case, six more were reported the…
MaineHealth
MaineHealth announced Aug. 3 it will require COVID-19 vaccination for all care team members as a condition of employment. The new rule, which will have few exceptions including consideration for…
As the fall sports season nears, Lincoln Medical Partners is offering physicals for…
use of contract nurses and assistants in Maine has soared since 2017
In the years before the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation’s long-term care facilities and overwhelmed healthcare workers, Maine nursing homes increasingly hired nurses and nursing…
Press release
Bakes for Breast Cancer is proud to announce that Treats of Maine, 80 Main St., in Wiscasset is participating in the inaugural Bakes for Breast Cancer Maine.
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Camden-based nonprofit Finding Our Voices (FOV) has received national recognition for its “Outstanding Awareness Campaign,” the Let’s Talk About It/Women in Windows posters and “Best Awareness…
