Franklin Memorial Hospital
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PublishedJune 19, 2023
Franklin Memorial Hospital will continue obstetric service, deliver babies if license changes
Hospital representatives intend to apply for Critical Access Hospital status and reduce its bed count from 65 to 25, if license changes.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2023
Children are ‘languishing’ in hospitals while waiting for mental health services, providers say
Children with mental and behavioral health needs end up 'languishing' in hospitals for months on end thanks to long waiting lists and administrative barriers to treatment.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2022
Health care networks, universities to receive $2.3 million in funding to expand rural education opportunities
Health care networks, the University of Maine System and St. Joseph's College will receive a total of nearly $2.3 million to expand medical training in communities like Farmington and Norway.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2022
Hospital workers are expected to ‘tolerate a level of abuse’ unacceptable anywhere else
There is a cultural expectation that health care workers, especially in hospitals, tolerate abusive behavior, making them less likely to want to pursue a criminal case and law enforcement and district attorneys less likely to prosecute, hospital workers told the Sun Journal.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2022
Hospital workers say they experience assault, threats of violence nearly every day
While the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to a rise in incidents, violence against health care workers was an issue long before it started.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2022
Franklin Memorial Hospital to reduce services temporarily due to spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations
Officials say services at Farmington hospital to be reduced to emergency and acutely ill patients.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2020
Nine Farmington hospital workers test positive for COVID-19
The outbreak at Franklin Memorial Hospital started last week with four cases.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2019
Rankings show Maine’s hospitals are safest in the country
A watchdog group says most Maine hospitals, including Lewiston's CMMC, get an A grade for patient safety.