By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • March 11, 2021 MILLINOCKET – An abrupt change in the state’s COVID-19 vaccination priorities to include all preK-12 school staff and licensed child care workers came just in time for Millinocket Regional Hospital staff to include local school staff members in their mass vaccination clinic held March 6 at
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • February 25, 2021 MILLINOCKET – Millinocket Regional Hospital staff and community volunteers conducted the first mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Stearns High School in Millinocket on Feb. 17. By all accounts the clinic was a great success with more than 300 residents of the Katahdin region receiving their first
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • February 25, 2021 MILLINOCKET – It’s more than a vaccine – its hope in a vaccine vile; it’s light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. It means plans can finally be made for that visit to the grandchildren or family reunion. Millinocket Regional Hospital staff
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • February 18, 2021 MILLINOCKET – All the planning and preparation paid off as representatives at Millinocket Regional Hospital conducted the first mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Millinocket at Stearns High School on Feb. 17. Vaccinations were by appointment only. The confirmation that the hospital was receiving 300 doses of
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • February 11, 2021 KATAHDIN REGION – Now that Millinocket Regional Hospital has begun hosting public COVID-19 vaccination clinics, MRH Infection Preventionist Todd Phillips, RN, BSN, MPH said he’s been hearing a lot of questions about the process. Below are some sample questions and his answers to help education citizens
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • February 11, 2021 KATAHDIN REGION – While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused great pain and suffering it’s also created the opportunity for new partnerships and cooperation among groups and organizations with the same mission – to help the communities they serve. The healthcare industry is a great example of
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • February 11, 2021 MILLINOCKET – Many citizens and visitors in the Katahdin region have found themselves needing the services of Millinocket Regional Hospital over the decades and some of those patients have found unique ways to give back. Kirk Ramsey, former Millinocket resident and co-owner of Bangor Window Shade
Read more →From the desk of Robert Peterson, D.Sc., FACHE Chief Executive Officer February 4, 2021 There is an undeniable energy in the air today at Millinocket Regional Hospital as we conduct our first community-wide vaccination clinic! Community members have been registering for vaccination via our on-line system at www.mrhme.org/getvax for the past several weeks and have
Read more →We have been made aware of a phone scam targeting the Katahdin Region. Scammers are falsely claiming to be local healthcare employees and asking for personal information. The scammers use a technique called “spoofing” to manipulate the caller ID to make it appear is if these calls are coming from Millinocket Regional Hospital. We can
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • January 21, 2021 MILLINOCKET – The path towards greater access to the COVID-19 vaccination is getting more definitive but like everything that’s been associated with the pandemic, information can change daily. Millinocket Regional Hospital officials have been wading through the changing guidelines to provide the most up-to-date, accurate information
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