Patrick Dempsey visits with Lewiston mass shooting victims
On Thursday, the actor and Maine native stopped by Central Maine Medical Center to sit and talk with recovering patients and their families.
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On Thursday, the actor and Maine native stopped by Central Maine Medical Center to sit and talk with recovering patients and their families.
Eighteen people were killed and 13 more were injured in shootings at a Lewiston, Maine, bar and a bowling alley on Oct. 25, setting off a multiday search for the gunman, whose body was found two days later.
As the hospital braced for what would prove to be its worst disaster ever, the staff knew what they had to do, but knew little of what they might face.
Despite our aggressive efforts to hire more nurses — including offering free education and recruiting nurses from across the globe — Maine, like the rest of the nation, does not have enough nurses to meet our needs.
LEWISTON — Katherine Gagnon, a registered nurse in oncology at Central Maine Medical Center, has been presented with the DAISY Award, an international recognition program. Gagnon was nominated by the wife of a cancer patient. A second nomination came from a patient being cared for at CMMC. The patient described how Katherine advocated for her, looked […]