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The Pediatric Innovator designation by the Maine Emergency Medical Services for Children Program demonstrates the two hospital emergency departments meet the highest readiness standards.

The Evelyn S. and K.E. Barrett Foundation has awarded a $75,000 grant to the AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital (MHBBCH) to help meet the physical and emotional needs of pediatric patients and their families. The grant will also fund a new Childhood Support Specialist (CSS) position in York and Cumberland counties.

AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ welcomed its first baby of the new year at AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Maine Medical Center Portland! Michael Nathan Maiato was born at 2:55 a.m. to Paige and Joe Maiato of Kennebunk. Michael weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces and was 20.4 inches long.

AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ has chosen a practicing primary care physician with a history of leadership in quality and safety as its next Chief Medical Officer for the health system’s Southern Region, which includes AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Maine Medical Center’s Portland, Biddeford and Sanford campuses.

AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Maine Medical Center Portland is named a Top Teaching Hospital and AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Pen Bay Hospital is named a Top Rural Hospital.

The AOAÌåÓýƽ̨ Preble Street Learning Collaborative (MHPSLC) is launching a mobile health unit to provide low-barrier, on-demand treatment for unhoused patients with psychiatric and substance use disorders in greater Portland.

Elements from the building’s history will be preserved to honor the legacy of Dorothy ‘Dot� Woodbury.

Southern Maine Health Care Wound Care in Sanford is now equipped to handle complex wounds through the advanced technology of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Maine Medical Center (MMC) and Southern Maine Health Care (SMHC) released their Community Benefit Reports this week, demonstrating that the two hospitals provided a combined $555 million in total benefit to the Southern Maine community in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2022.