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PublishedOctober 1, 2022
Day of Hope for cancer survivors, patients, families
MaineGeneral's annual, inspirational event returns to in-person at Augusta Civic Center.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2021
Augusta’s MaineGeneral Medical Center looks to expand services, rebuild workforce in 2022
The pandemic resulted in some of the hospital's greatest challenges in 2021, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2021
Some hospital workers raise alarms over lack of dedicated COVID-19 paid sick time
Nurses at MaineGeneral that get sick with COVID-19 and miss work must use their earned time off to be paid, officials said.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2021
Augusta-based MaineGeneral loses 191 employees, about 4% of workforce, over COVID vaccine mandate
The staffing disclosure came following last week's deadline for the state's health care workers to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2021
MaineGeneral Health working on contingency plan for staffing as deadline approaches for Mills’ vaccination mandate
As of Tuesday, about 81% of the hospital's employees met the COVID-19 vaccination mandate Gov. Janet Mills has set for health care workers.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2021
Patient says some MaineGeneral staff threatened to not treat her for asking if they were vaccinated
MaineGeneral spokesperson Joy McKenna said nothing prohibits patients from asking about staff members' vaccination status and the hospital would not refuse treatment for such queries.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2021
MaineGeneral sees uptick in COVID patients
Driven by the unvaccinated, the modest rise in COVID-19 admissions at MaineGeneral in Augusta belies the 325-percent jump in the seven-day daily case average across the state compared to one month ago.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2021
Augusta Civic Center’s vaccine clinic closing next week for legislative activity
The clinic, which will be closed March 10-11, is due to reopen March 12, according to Kennebec County Emergency Management Agency Director Sean Goodwin.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2021
MaineGeneral opens new addiction practice for those seeking treatment
MaineGeneral Addiction Medicine has locations in Waterville and Augusta for people seeking treatment for substance use disorder, opiate use disorder and treatment of other addictive substances.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2021
MaineGeneral Health did not intend to offer ‘privileged access’ to COVID-19 vaccine, official says
The hospital's 17-person Board of Directors was largely unavailable for comment on questions of vaccine equity, but the board chairman said the recent vaccine clinic was done according to CDC guidelines and provided useful feedback in making the process better.
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