Jackson Lab Is Expanding to Florida

Jan 17, 2025 Share by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News BAR HARBOR—The Jackson Laboratory, which is based in Bar Harbor and has more than 1,700 employees in Hancock County, is expanding to metro Gainesville, Florida. The biomedical research laboratory has been advertising and filling scientific jobs in research space it has leased at Momentum Labs in the city of Alachua, which is about half an hour northwest of Gainesville, … Continue reading Jackson Lab Is Expanding to Florida

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CEO Explains MDI Hospital’s Expansion Is About More Than Buildings

Hospital Is 80% Into Its Fundraising Goal on Multi-million Project Carrie Jones Dec 09, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe’s New Year’s Eve Party. BAR HARBOR— Every year, MDI Hospital CEO Chrissi Maguire told those gathered at the Jesup Memorial Library on Thursday, the hospital has given over $49 million dollars in uncompensated and free care. The comment came … Continue reading CEO Explains MDI Hospital’s Expansion Is About More Than Buildings

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Student Survives Collapsed Lung And Heads Back On the Courts and Field

MDI Hospital 2024 Community Celebration Highlights Medical Education, Innovative Care, Infrastructure Expansion and Survival Carrie Jones Sep 13, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Wyatt Fountaine knows what his dreams are, and the fifteen-year-old MDI High School student also knows how quickly life can tweak those dreams and turn a February day into a nightmare. On what Wyatt called “a normal day” he was getting ready for school … Continue reading Student Survives Collapsed Lung And Heads Back On the Courts and Field

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Use of antipsychotics in Maine nursing homes climbs

After an initial crackdown and decline, the rate of the powerful medications given to nursing home residents has ticked back up in recent years. APR 22, 2024 Share By Rose Lundy MAINE—Sherri Parker, assistant director of nursing at Caribou Rehab and Nursing, recalled a woman who came to her facility and was so sedated by the prescribed antipsychotic medication she had been taking at home that … Continue reading Use of antipsychotics in Maine nursing homes climbs

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Making Hospitals Safer

Nursing-Patient Ratios and Whistle Blower Protections Likely Headed to House Floor Within Days CARRIE JONES APR 10, 2024 Share MOUNT DESERT ISLAND AND AUGUSTA—Nurse Nancy Graham knows what it’s like to be at a hospital scrambling to take care of patients because of poor nurses-to-patients ratios, and it’s not something she wants to experience again or have her patients experience either. If the Maine House … Continue reading Making Hospitals Safer

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