By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • March 25, 2021 MILLINOCKET – Millinocket Regional Hospital staff celebrated the success of two more vaccination clinics last week – one that provided the second doses to more than 300 citizens and first doses to another 340 citizens. Each vaccinated individual brings the region one step closer to a
Read more →by Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • March 25, 2021 MILLINOCKET – Millinocket Regional Hospital is in the forefront in the battle against COVID-19 providing important information, care and critical vaccine but it’s also working to be a leader in the fight against breast cancer with the introduction of three dimensional (3D) mammography. The Hologic Selenia
Read more →By Shelley Farrington Lincoln News • March 18, 2021 MILLINOCKET – Staff at Millinocket Regional Hospital conducted its first “second-shot” clinic March 17 to fully vaccinate more than 300 citizens who received their first shots at MRH’s first mass clinic on Feb. 17. Another 300 citizens will receive “first” shots. The clinic was again held
Read more →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
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