Maine Medical Center
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Maine Medical Center (MMC), located in Portland, Maine in the United States, is the largest hospital in northern New England. It is a 606-bed facility which also serves as a teaching hospital.
[edit] History
Maine Medical Center was founded in 1874, eight years after the Great Fire of 1866 had destroyed much of Portland. Five years of planning, fundraising, and construction went into the new forty-bed facility which served 114 patients during its first year. The Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary and Children's Hospital merged with the hospital in 1951.[1]
The present-day complex of more than one million square feet (92,000 square meters) was completed in 1984. Maine Medical Center is currently undergoing a major expansion, to include a new or improved emergency department, birthing center, helipad, utility plant, and parking garage.[2]
[edit] Governance
Maine Medical Center is owned by MaineHealth, the state's largest healthcare organization. MaineHealth formed in the late 1990s from MMC, with its first board of directors serving from 1999-2000. MaineHealth owns and operates a series of mental, long-term, primary care, emergency, and home healthcare facilities in southern, central, and western Maine. Other MaineHealth companies include St. Andrews Healthcare, Miles Health Care, Spring Harbor Hospital, HomeHealth-VNSM.[3]
