One year with COVID: Maineâs hospitals at center of stateâs COVID-19 vaccination efforts Share Updated: 11:08 AM EST Mar 10, 2021 Share Updated: 11:08 AM EST Mar 10, 2021
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 11:08 AM EST Mar 10, 2021 Since Maine began vaccinating residents in mid-December, the stateâs hospital groups have been at the center of the vaccination efforts.Itâs been a big shift after months of focusing on caring for patients infected with the virus.âIn the beginning, we were just talking about people that get admitted to hospitals, and it wasn t much that we could do for them and we just slowly watched people die,â said Dr. James Jarvis of Northern Light Health.Jarvis said the vaccines have been a turning point for front-line workers.On Dec. 15, the first health care workers began to receive the vaccine, including Maine Medical Center ICU nurse Danielle Poulin.âItâs exciting. It s the b
A Year Like No Other : Maine Medical Center team delivers emotional, heart-wrenching 2020 holiday message I know this is really hard and I know that all of you know the things that you need to do, and that gives me hope that we ll get through this, MD Ted Sears said. Author: Griffin Stockford (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 4:44 PM EST December 23, 2020 Updated: 11:33 AM EST December 24, 2020
PORTLAND, Maine In a video published Tuesday, Maine Medical Center care team members gave insight into the tragedies, heartbreak, and exhaustion they ve been experiencing since March, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage in Maine and across the country.
Getting vaccinated is just the first step for front-line hospital staff
After caring for COVID patients for nine months, the first ICU and ER workers inoculated at Maine Med are doing fine and hoping everyone keeps wearing masks and gets vaccinated, too, as soon as possible.
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Critical care nurse Danielle Poulin plays with her Nigerian Dwarf goat, Huckleberry, at her home in Monmouth on Friday. Poulin is a nurse in Maine Medical Center’s COVID ICU department.
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Danielle Poulin was elated to be among the first front-line health care workers in Maine to be vaccinated against COVID-19 last week. But she can’t forget all of the people who have died from the virus, and she doesn’t want you to forget, either.
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Kayla Mitchell, 31, a registered nurse who works in the COVID intensive care unit, receives the hospital s first dose from Dr. Christina DeMatteo on Tuesday morning. “I’m glad to be part of the solution and help make the community safer for everyone,” Mitchell said.
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