RUMFORD – An $8 million upgrade to change paper patient records to electronic ones is planned to start this summer in Rumford and Bridgton hospitals and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, CMMC public affairs spokesman Chuck Gill told the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition on Thursday.
“Inpatient records will be on computer for all doctors so they can make better clinical judgments,” Gill said.
In the future, Gill said a mobile intensive care unit is scheduled to start up that can keep critically ill patients in contact with doctors through a variety of monitors.
And next year at Rumford Hospital, a physician residency program is slated to begin, he said. The local hospital already serves as a branch of CMMC’s nursing program.
CMMC already sponsors a mobile van that provides a variety of screenings to people living in one of the hospitals’ three geographic areas.
Rumford Hospital became an affiliate of CMMC a couple of years ago and began undergoing a major renovation and sharing a variety of specialists and services. One of the most recent services is chemotherapy treatment. An increasing number of specialists have held hours in Rumford.
The first phase of the renovation work at the 80-year-old facility includes a new entrance and better access to the emergency room. The next phase will include a remodeled in-patient area, Gill said.
CMMC’s mission, he said, is to treat people close to home.
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