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158: 479:, the state's largest healthcare organization. MaineHealth formed in the late 1990s from MMC, with its first board of directors serving from 1999 to 2000. MaineHealth owns and operates a series of mental, long-term, primary care, emergency, and home healthcare facilities in southern, central, and western Maine. Other MaineHealth companies include Memorial Hospital, North Conway NH, Western Maine Health (Penbay Medical Center & Waldo), Southern Maine Health Care (Biddeford & Sanford), LincolnHealth, 174: 468: 33: 398: 181: 455:
Since 1956, Maine Medical Center has recruited NIH-funded scientists to staff its research institute. The facility is subdivided into the centers for molecular medicine, clinical and translational research, outcomes research and evaluation, psychiatric research, and Lyme and vector-borne diseases.
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Children's Hospital (BBCH) is integrated within Maine Medical Center to offer a complete range of pediatric services, specialties and programs including behavioral and developmental, neonatal, cardiology, infectious disease, neurology, palliative care and otolaryngology, among others. The original
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with 28,000 inpatient visits, about 500,000 outpatient visits, 88,000 emergency visits, and over 27,000 surgeries performed annually. MMC is structured as a non-profit, private corporation governed by volunteer trustees. Maine Medical Center is wholly owned by, and serves as the flagship hospital
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Children's Hospital opened in 1908, later merging with the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary (opened in 1890) and the Maine General Hospital (opened in 1874) to become Maine Medical Center. In 1998, the facility sought formal accreditation for its children's services as the
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The institute also participates in multiple national and international clinical trials in fields ranging from cardiology to oncology, offering opportunities for graduate and post-doctoral training as well as funding.
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Maine Medical Center is the largest tertiary care hospital in Northern New England, serving all of Maine and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. It is a Level One Trauma Center, most recently named by
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Currently, Maine Medical Center Research Institute is one of 126 NIH-designated "Centers for Research Excellence" receiving funding for stem and progenitor cell biology and regenerative medicine.
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The inpatient unit of BBCH is approximately 26,000 square feet (2,400 m) with 109 beds including a 31-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a 20-bed continuing care nursery.
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Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center. The hospital treats infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Maine.
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as one of the top hospitals in America for heart care, orthopedics and gynecology, and home to the
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Maine Medical Center is a teaching hospital, currently using the Maine Track program at
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Children's Hospital, cited as one of the Top 25 children's hospitals in the country.
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in Northern New England. Founded in 1874, it is the largest hospital in northern
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MMC as seen from the South Portland side of the Portland International Jetport
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neighborhood. It has a staff of over 9,500. The facility is one of only three
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Maine Medical Center is a teaching hospital, with an affiliation with the
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A photograph of the original building, then named Maine General Hospital
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research, through its Maine Medical Center Research Institute, ongoing
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University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
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As a part of its mission, MMC is also a leader in 958: 940: 491:Referred to as a "hospital within a hospital", the 329: 319: 314: 306: 301: 293: 281: 276: 264: 254: 249: 210: 198: 193: 136: 660:Maine Medical Center Website - 2008 Press Releases 642:Maine Medical Center Website - 2007 Press Releases 603:"US News Best Hospitals 2014 Maine Medical Center" 324:https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-medical-center 906: 401:The original hospital building on the campus. 8: 180: 913: 899: 891: 133: 820:BBCH Website - Quality Care Close to Home 117:Learn how and when to remove this message 716:"Maine Medical Center Website - History" 994:Teaching hospitals in the United States 568: 451:Maine Medical Center Research Institute 839:"Children's Miracle Network Hospitals" 53:Please improve this article by adding 881:Maine Medical Center official website 7: 843:Children's Miracle Network Hospitals 777:BBCH Website - Education and History 550:Tufts University School of Medicine 507:Specialty programs and care centers 370:Tufts University School of Medicine 271:Tufts University School of Medicine 698:"Participating COBRE Institutions" 25: 759:BBCH Website - Pediatric Services 475:Maine Medical Center is owned by 368:, United States. 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Maine Medical Center is located in Maine
Portland
Coordinates
43°39′11″N 70°16′34″W / 43.653°N 70.276°W / 43.653; -70.276
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Affiliated university
Tufts University School of Medicine
Emergency department
Level I trauma center
https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-medical-center
Hospitals in Maine
contracted
teaching hospital
Portland
Maine
Tufts University School of Medicine

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