COVID Chronicle

LONG-TERM CARE AND CONGREGATE L I V ING

Supporting Our Friends and Neighbors

Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Penobscot Community Health, and Northern Light Home Care & Hospice worked together to support a long-term care facility facing resource shortages and uncertain times. As a community, these healthcare providers joined together to deliver: • staffing support • assistance with fit testing • development of plans for patient services at local facilities, and • shared policies, procedures, and training tools, as well as many other activities to ensure the staff and patients know they are not alone. Northern Light Health’s facilities department assisted Brewer Rehab to develop a negative pressure unit through the art of creative engineering so they may more safely care for potential COVID positive patients.

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