Multi-bed ward, Eastern Maine Medical Center, ca. 1970
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Eastern Maine Medical Center
In January 1970, Leona McGinnis retires following more than 49 years as the hospital switchboard operator.
Plans proceed for the hospital's largest fund drive since the 1922 campaign to build the student nurses residence. Hundreds of community leaders attend luncheon tours and informational meetings on the design and operation of the medical center. Thousands more "see the filmstrip, review the brochures and examine the model of the new building."
Trustee presidents of the community hospitals served by EMMC are now ex officio members of the corporation.
The nuclear medicine section established in Radiology under the direction of Edward C. Porter, M.D.; gamma camera purchased for $62,000.
A rehabilitative medicine section added under the direction of Robert H. Brown, M.D.
"We have seen...22 physician appointments confirmed this year...The inquiries of new physicians interested in Bangor continue to arrive and it would appear from the physician's point of view that with the new hospital commitment, Bangor may be just the kind of place that will appeal to more young physicians starting out who want to get away from large cities." --Medical staff president Edward B. Babcock, M.D.
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