Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn

Students complete St. Mary’s Medical Assistant Program

LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Health System, 96 Campus Ave., held a celebration ceremony on Nov. 28 recognizing 19 local students for completion of their medical assistant classes. Instructor Mariann Gowell welcomed administrators, staff, family, friends and community partners for the presentation of certificates. Brittany Blais, St. Mary’s Talent Acquisition Partner and Human Resources Administrative Assistant, […]

Posted inLewiston-Auburn

Police called to hospital

Lewiston police responded to a scene at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center around 3 p.m. Thursday after a patient having a mental breakdown became unruly, according to Auburn Deputy Chief Jason Moen. The patient had to be subdued by hospital staff and an officer. The patient was charged with assault on an emergency care provider, […]

advertisement
Posted inObituaries, sj-web

Colette C. DiBello

1924 – 2016 AUBURN — Colette C. DiBello, 92, of Aspen Way, Turner, died Saturday, June 4, at the Androscoggin Hospice House with her family by her side. She was born in Auburn on March 30, 1924, the daughter of Altheode and Irma Collet Charron. She was a graduate of Edward Little High School in […]

Posted inBusiness

St. Mary’s office to hold open house

LEWISTON — Members of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and others are invited to an open house and ribbon cutting from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, at St. Mary’s Integrative Medicine and Weight Management, 198 Main St. Visitors are welcome to tour the facility and meet the office staff. Light snacks will […]

Posted inBusiness

Earth Day 2016: How local companies go a little green

When it comes to conservation, every little bit helps. For Earth Day, we caught up with a multinational water company newly riding the rails, a bank recycling 88 tons of paper, an elderly care facility that’s feeling the heat and a coffee shop going with the low-flow to do its part. It’s green, to go […]

Posted inLewiston-Auburn

CMMC, St. Mary’s fined for patient safety scores

LEWISTON — Eight Maine hospitals are facing federal penalties for infection and complication rates. Both Lewiston hospitals — Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center — are on the list. This is the second year Medicare has fined hospitals whose safety scores dip below a certain line. Last year, six Maine hospitals […]

Posted inLewiston-Auburn

Philanthropist Cecile Coulombe dies at 89

LEWISTON — In 2008, the family of Cecile J. Coulombe donated $1.3 million in her name to St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center for a new emergency room. Cecile described it as a happy surprise at the time, but nobody who knew her well was surprised at all. For most of her life, she had maintained […]