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Valerie Ann Baker, 70, a resident of Kennebunk and longtime educator in the Kennebunk school system, died suddenly Friday evening at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford.
Mom, Mama-Mia, Mia, Mrs. Baker or Val, to all who knew and loved her, was born June 25, 1950, in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, the daughter of Camiel and Mariette Tack Dhaveloose, and a graduate of Grosse Pointe schools.
She furthered her education in Florida, where she attended Barry College and earned her undergraduate degree in education and her first master’s degree in special education. Her second master’s degree came later at University of Southern Maine, in education administration.
First COVID-19 vaccines in Maine administered to staff at Maine Medical Center Share Updated: 5:45 PM EST Dec 15, 2020
First COVID-19 vaccines in Maine administered to staff at Maine Medical Center Share Updated: 5:45 PM EST Dec 15, 2020
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Show Transcript LEARNED THE VACCINE WAS READY FOR HER AND HER COWORKERS. :35 WE HAVE A FULL HOUSE DOWN HERE A LOT OF POSITIVES LOTS OF SICK PATIENTS. I FEEL LIKE ROUND 2 IS A LITTLE WORSE THAN ROUND 1. DANIELLE POULIN CARES FOR PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 AS A NURSE AT MAINE MEDICAL CENTERS INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. SHE WAS SECOND IN LINE THIS MORNING TO RECEIVE THE FIRST DOSE OF PFIZER S COVID-19 VACCINE. 1:21 I SAT DOWN GOT IT IN MY LEFT ARM IT DIDN T EVEN HURT AND I FEEL GREAT AND IT S EXCITING IT S THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF COVID WHICH IS SUPER PROMISING AS SHE DESCRIBES WHAT SHE HAS EXPERIENCED CARING FOR MANY DURING THIS PANDEMIC, ENCOURAGING ANYONE WATCHING TO STILL TAKE PRECAUTIONS WITH MASKS,
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First doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered to Maine frontline health care workers
Kayla Mitchell, an RN in the COVID-19 ICU unit at Maine Medical Center in Portland, was the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine. Author: Gabrielle Mannino (NEWS CENTER Maine), Jackie Mundry (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 11:41 AM EST December 15, 2020 Updated: 6:58 PM EST December 15, 2020
PORTLAND, Maine A MaineHealth registered nurse became the first Mainer to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday at 9 a.m.
Kayla Mitchell, RN, BSN, is a nurse who treats COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit at Maine Medical Center. She is one of 150 MaineHealth caregivers who will be vaccinated Tuesday at Maine Medical Center in Portland and Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford.