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– Bangor hospital has record COVID-19 inpatients; hospitalizations up in southern and central Maine
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Bangor hospital has record COVID-19 inpatients; hospitalizations up in southern and central Maine
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COVID-19 inpatient counts up in southern and central Maine; Bangor hospital has record number
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Mercy, Mid Coast, MaineGeneral, EMMC hit new highs for COVID-19 inpatients
The burden shot upward at EMMC after a lull but flattened at Maine Med, SMHC and CMMC.
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The state’s hospitals had another intense week saving lives from the pandemic, with Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor seeing a sharp resurgence of COVID-19 inpatients, joining Augusta’s MaineGeneral, Mid Coast in Brunswick and much smaller York Hospital in setting new pandemic peaks.
EMMC, the largest hospital in the eastern half of the state, saw an average of 26.6 confirmed COVID-19 patients per day in the week ending Thursday, up from 18.3 the week before and surpassing the previous record weekly average of 24.3 set the week before that. Despite the unprecedented burden, the hospital’s senior clinician said it is still able to handle the burden without canceling scheduled surgeries and other medical care.
Maine Medical Center, SMHC, MaineGeneral hit record number of COVID-19 inpatients
The burden continues to ease at hard-hit Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and plateaus at Lewiston s hospitals.
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Maine’s largest hospital hit a new high of confirmed COVID-19 inpatients Thursday, capping the busiest week that it and several other major medical centers in the state have had since the pandemic began in Maine nine months ago.
The number of COVID-19 patients admitted at Maine Medical Center in Portland reached 40 Thursday and averaged 36.7 per day for the week ending that day, up from 25.3 the week before. The previous single-day peak was 35, on both April 7 and May 25.