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AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Waldo Hospital recently welcomed two new Community Health Workers, Terri Aldus and Dianna Wilson, to their Community Health department. They join a team of CHWs across Knox and Waldo counties dedicated to helping community members bridge gaps in accessing care.

Due to forecasted inclement weather this Saturday, June 7, the spring Farmersâ€� Market at AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Waldo Hospital has been postponed. The Farmersâ€� Market originally scheduled at AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay Hospital for this past Saturday, May 31, was also postponed due to inclement weather. Both events have been moved to this fall, with more information to follow.

AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals are excited to announce the launch of a secure and convenient medication take-back program on their campuses.

To help introduce their expanded team of certified nurse midwives (CNMs) to the community, AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals will hold a “Meet the Midwivesâ€� event on Thursday, March 20, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. The event will be held at AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Obstetrics and Gynecology Rockport, located on the MHPBH campus in Rockport at 3 Glen Cove Drive, Suite 1.

As part of AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay Hospital’s continued effort to help those experiencing food insecurity, the hospital has added a new Help Yourself Shelf inside AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Behavioral Health Rockland, located at 12 Union Street in Rockland.

AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Waldo Hospital and Midcoast Maine Community Action (MMCA) are excited to announce a new partnership that will bring a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program office to Belfast.

The local board overseeing AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Waldo Hospital has given its approval to restructuring the hospital’s obstetrics department, ending inpatient labor and delivery services there as of April 1. The decision was ratified by the AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Board of Trustees today.

Four care team members from AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals were recently honored with employee awards during ceremonies held on the hospital campuses.

In the fight against the disease, AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay Hospital (MHPBH) recently installed a new, state-of-the-art mammography machine in its Radiology department in September and, with it, became the first hospital in Maine to begin using new Genius AI Detection (GAID) 2.0 software in scans.

As part of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay and Waldo Hospitals will be open for CT lung cancer screens as part of National Lung Cancer Screening Day on Saturday, Nov. 9.