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MMC Surpasses Philanthropic Fundraising Goal

January 31, 2023 PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) announced today the conclusion of a multi-year fundraising campaign that invests in significant improvements to patient care and its workforce. The NEXT 150 | Campaign for Maine Medical Center raised $179 million in designated funds to support MMC’s mission through facility expansion and [...]

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MMC Earns an ‘A” for Safety from Leapfrog Group

November 16, 2022, PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) was awarded an ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for fall 2022, the highest grade that Leapfrog offers. Leapfrog, an independent national quality evaluator, awards letter grades to hospitals every six months based on each hospital’s ability to prevent medical errors and [...]

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MMC ‘Tops Off’ Malone Family Tower with Traditional Ceremony

PORTLAND, Maine, September 28, 2022 – Construction on Maine Medical Center’s new Malone Family Tower hit a milestone today as construction crews held the traditional “topping off” ceremony, a long-standing practice amongst builders. The beam added to the 265,000-square-foot Malone Family Tower was covered with signatures of MMC care team members, many of [...]

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U.S. News & World Report Names MMC as Best Regional Hospital for Tenth Straight Year

U.S. News & World Report has named Maine Medical Center (MMC) as the #1 hospital in Maine for 2022-2023. This is the 10th straight year that MMC has been named as a Best Regional Hospital. U.S. News also rated MMC as “high performing” in 14 common procedures and conditions included in the annual survey of [...]

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MMC receives $2M gift from Eric and Peggy Cianchette; The NEXT 150 Campaign Extended

June 23, 2022, PORTLAND, Maine – Eric and Peggy Cianchette of Portland have generously donated $2 million to Maine Medical Center as part of The NEXT 150 | Campaign for Maine Medical Center. In recognition and appreciation of this gift, Maine Medical Center (MMC) is naming its cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) the Eric [...]

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Celebrating the Maine Track Class of 2022 and MMC Faculty

Congratulations to the Class of 2022 Maine Medical Center (MMC) held its tenth annual Maine Track Celebration event on Saturday, April 30, 2022 recognizing the 46 Maine Track medical school program students who will graduate from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston this month. After completing the program that [...]

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MaineHealth Named One of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes

February 15, 2022 PORTLAND, Maine – Forbes has named MaineHealth one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2022. Forbes partnered with independent research firm Statista to survey 60,000 people working for businesses across all sectors with at least 1,000 employees. Survey respondents were asked to rate how likely they were to recommend [...]

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MaineHealth Providers Stretched to the Limit by Surging COVID-19 Hospitalizations

December 08, 2021 As the Delta variant spreads through the ranks of the unvaccinated, the region’s largest health care system says its hospitals are full, and patients can expect long waits for inpatient care and even clinic-based services. PORTLAND, Maine – Leaders from across MaineHealth, northern New England’s largest integrated health [...]

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MaineHealth Innovation Announces First Recipients of its $100,000 Bonfire Fund

December 09, 2021 Two groups of MaineHealth care team members will split the inaugural fund to advance their innovations: A robotic clot retriever and a portable negative pressure isolation tent. PORTLAND, Maine – MaineHealth Innovation will be investing $100,000 through its inaugural Bonfire Fund in two innovations designed to improve the care of patients. [...]

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Coulombe Family Tower Receives Green Certification

November 28, 2021: PORTLAND, Maine – The Coulombe Family Tower has received LEED Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, provides organizations with a framework to take a more sustainable approach to the design, construction and operation [...]

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MMC to Seek Modifications to Malone Family Tower Project

November 23, 2021: PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) announced today it plans to modify its Malone Family Tower construction project to address access to care and capacity challenges and to achieve additional operating efficiencies. An artist’s rendering of MMC’s Malone Family Tower, with addition of Sterile Processing Department atop the building. [...]

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MaineHealth Hospitals Earn a Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade of ‘A’

November 10, 2021: 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 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade of ‘A.’ This is the second fall in a row that all five eligible MaineHealth hospitals received the highest hospital safety grade that [...]

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MaineHealth signals capacity challenges for health care system likely to continue in the months ahead

October 26, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine – Leaders from across MaineHealth, northern New England’s largest health system, said today that they expect capacity challenges for the region’s health care industry to persist in the months ahead and asked for understanding from patients and support from the community and policy makers. [...]

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U.S. News & World Report Names MMC ‘Best Regional Hospital’ for Ninth Straight Year

MMC also earned a “high performing” rating in 13 common procedures and conditions. July 26, 2021: PORTLAND, Maine – U.S. News & World Report has named Maine Medical Center (MMC) as the best hospital in Maine for 2021-2022. It is the ninth consecutive year that the hospital has been named as a “Best Regional Hospital.” [...]

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MaineHealth makes significant workforce investment, raising wages for its care team members starting Aug. 8

July 21, 2021: PORTLAND, Maine – MaineHealth, northern New England’s largest health system and Maine’s largest private employer, announced today that it is making a $61 million investment in its workforce by raising wages across its system, including setting a system-wide minimum wage for the organization of $17 per hour. The wage [...]

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MMC Launches $150 M Capital Campaign with Record $25 M Philanthropic Gift

June 15, 2021: PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) announced the largest single philanthropic gift in the hospital’s 150-year history Tuesday, a $25 million donation by John and Leslie Malone towards The NEXT 150|The Campaign for Maine Medical Center. With this gift, and those of other benefactors, MMC [...]

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Shaw Brothers Construction Pledges $1 Million to Maine Medical Center to Honor Sally Shaw

August 19, 2020: PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) has received a $1 million pledge from Jon and Dan Shaw, founders of Shaw Brothers Construction. In recognition and appreciation, MMC will name the open air causeway — to be constructed on Congress Street in front of a new [...]

MMC celebrates two new oncology floors in the expanded newly named Coulombe Family Tower

December 03, 2019: PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) celebrated two new floors dedicated to oncology at an open house and ribbon cutting in the hospital’s Coulombe Family Tower Wednesday. The Susan Donnell Konkel Pavilion for Surgical Oncology and the Marshall L. and Susan Gibson Pavilion for Medical [...]

Scarborough Planning Board Approves New MMP Medical Office Building

November 05, 2019: PORTLAND, Maine – A unanimous vote Monday night by the Scarborough Planning Board has cleared the way for Maine Medical Center (MMC) to invest $59 million in a new Maine Medical Partners (MMP) medical office building at its Route 1 campus as part of its overall [...]

MMC Announces $10.5 M in Philanthropic Pledges

June 10, 2019: PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center (MMC) has received a $7.5 million pledge from Paul and Giselaine Coulombe and their daughter, Michelle Coulombe-Hagerty. This is the largest commitment by an individual family in MMC’s history. Inspired by the Coulombe family’s generosity, Linda and Diana Bean of [...]

MMC receives $4M gift from Lisa Gorman, children and spouses of Leon Gorman to support new medical building

November 20, 2018: PORTLAND, Maine – Maine Medical Center announced today an extraordinarily generous gift of $4 million provided by Lisa Gorman and the children of L.L. Bean Chairman Emeritus Leon Gorman and their spouses: Jeff and Sonya Gorman, and Jennifer and Bennett Wilson. The gift continues the Gorman [...]

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