MaineHealth lands grant for rural maternal healthcare

A total of $4 million dollars will be awarded over a four-year period to strengthen rural maternity healthcare through a telehealth program.

MaineHealth CEO: Rural hospitals critical to the future of Maine’s healthcare

The Leapfrog Group, which evaluates hospital performance according to U.S. industry standards, has rated Stephens Memorial Hospital as its top rural hospital five times since 2009.

PACE Paramedic Service focus of $4 million capital campaign

The 30-year-old building in Norway needs more space and safety improvement, director says.

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.

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.

Ambulance service explores unionizing

Bill Nemitz: In Norway, a small hospital leans into the COVID-19 storm

Far from the big-city medical centers, the pandemic lays claim to the unvaccinated.

Cleanup from smoke damage continues at Stephens Memorial Hospital

The cause remains under investigation by the state Fire Marshal's Office.

Multiple fire, ambulance services respond to hospital fire

Twenty-one SMH patients were relocated to several other medical facilities. Smoke damage will keep the hospital's surgical unit in its north wing and its maternity department closed for now. All other departments were expected to reopen by Monday.

Electrical issue believed to be cause of smoke at Stephens Memorial Hospital

Construction, cleaning and engineering crews have been working around the clock at the Norway facility to bring the impacted units back in service, a hospital spokesman said.