Maine Med Medical Center (commonly abbreviated as MMC or contracted to Maine Med ) is 637 licensed licensing hospitals located at 22 Bramhall Street in Portland. , Maine, United States with a staff of over 6,000 people. The facility has been rated Level I Trauma Center, one of only three in Northern New England. Founded in 1874, it is the largest hospital in northern New England with 28,000 inpatient visits, approximately 500,000 outpatient visits, 88,000 emergency visits, and more than 27,000 operations performed annually. MMC is structured as a non-profit private company regulated by volunteer guardians.
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History
Maine Medical Center is the largest tertiary care hospital in Northern New England, serving all of Maine and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. This is the First Trauma Center, most recently named by the US. News & amp; World Report as one of America's top hospitals for cardiovascular, orthopedic and gynecological treatment, and a home to Barbara Bush Children's Hospital, referred to as one of the top 25 children's hospitals in the country.
Maine Medical Center is an educational hospital, with affiliations with the University of Southern Maine, Saint Joseph's College, Tufts University, and Dartmouth College. As part of its mission, MMC is also a leader in biomedical research, through the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, ongoing clinical trials, and translation research.
The current complex of over one million square feet (92,000 square meters) was completed in 1984. In 2009, Maine Medical Center completed a major expansion, to include new or improved emergency departments, labor centers, neonatal intensive care units, helipads, utility plants , and a parking garage. In August 2007, he opened a new Ambulatory Surgery Center in Scarborough, Maine, named Scarborough Surgical Center. The Maine Medical Center also has the Brighton Medical Center Campus, which is the location of Brighton First Care and New England Rehab.
In 2010, the 18,000-square-foot Maine Medical Center, the $ 6 million Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation was opened on the Brighton campus.
In 2014, the Maine Medical Center commenced construction on a surgical expansion of $ 40 million, 40,000 square feet over the existing Bean building. Expected to open in 2015, it will feature 5 operating rooms and 20 perioperative care facilities, and will allow the creation of a heart hybrid operating room.
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Government
Maine Medical Center is owned by MaineHealth, the state's largest health organization. MaineHealth was formed in the late 1990s by MMC, with its first board of directors serving from 1999 to 2000. MaineHealth owns and operates a long-term, primary, emergency, and hospital healthcare facility in the south, central and west. Maine. Other MaineHealth companies include Southern Maine Medical Center, St. Andrews Healthcare, Miles Health Care, Spring Harbor Hospital and HomeHealth-VNSM.
Barbara Bush Children's Hospital
Referred to as "hospital in hospital", Barbara Bush Children's Hospital (BBCH) is integrated in the Maine Medical Center to offer a full range of pediatric services, specialties and programs including behavior and development, neonatal, cardiology, infectious diseases, neurology, palliative care and otolaryngology, among others. The original Children's Hospital opened in 1908, then joined the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary (opened in 1890) and Maine General Hospital (opened in 1874) to become Maine Medical Center. In 1998, the facility sought formal accreditation for the services of its children as Children's Barbara Bush Hospital at Maine Medical Center.
The BBCH hospitalization unit is approximately 26,000 square feet (2,400 m 2 ) with 109 beds including a 45-place Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and treatment of seven continuous care beds.
Custom programs and maintenance center
- Children's Hospital Barbara Bush
- Shared Replacement Center
- Birth Family Center
- The Cancer Institute
- Digestive Health Center
- Poison Center
- Scarborough Surgery Center
- MaineHealth VitalNetwork
- Maine Transplant Program
Affiliate
Maine Medical Center is an educational hospital, with former affiliations with the University of Vermont College of Medicine since the late 1970s ending in 2011 with the introduction of the Maine Track program at Tufts University School of Medicine. This program allows students from Maine, or those interested in training there, to complete their third and fourth year clerk at MMC in Portland rather than Boston. MMC also hosts a number of third-year clerkships for students from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Famous people
In her Twitter account, Anna Kendrick revealed that she was born at Maine Medical Center.
References
External links
- the Maine Medical Center's official website
- Photo of original building, then named Maine General Hospital
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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