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About MaineGeneral

MaineGeneral Health is more than a hospital.

As Kennebec Valley's leading health care provider and Maine's third-largest health care system, we are a comprehensive non-profit systems that includes:

  • A medical center with three campuses in Augusta and Waterville, Maine
  • A state-of-the-art regional outpatient cancer treatment center in Augusta, Maine
  • Physician practices
  • Nursing homes
  • Specialized rehabilitation, mental health and substance abuse services
  • Home health care and hospice services
  • Special care for patients with memory loss
  • Community outreach programs
  • Retirement living options

MaineGeneral also keenly focuses on preventive health and supports many ongoing programs throughout our communities.

Our Medical Center
Anchoring our health care system is a 287-bed medical center with campuses in Augusta and Waterville.

MaineGeneral Medical Center's services include:

  • Emergency and critical care
  • A full range of inpatient and outpatient surgery
  • Diagnostic services
  • Substance abuse and mental health services
  • Cancer care
  • Maternity services and newborn and child health programs

The Jackman Region Health Center in northern Somerset County, which is part of the medical center, provides physician office services and an 18-bed nursing home.

Our Physicians
The 250+ physicians on our active medical staff come from some of the country's finest medical schools and training programs and provide an array of specialty services from anesthesiology to urology.

Our Patients
We serve patients from 88 cities and towns throughout the Kennebec Valley region, providing them with the broad spectrum of services they need for every phase of their lives.

Our Commitment to the Kennebec Valley
Our mission is to enhance, every day, the health of the people of the greater Kennebec Valley.

We follow this mission with a forward-looking vision of focusing on clinical excellence, customer satisfaction, financial stability and positively impacting the health of our community each day.

We are MaineGeneral Health - Kennebec Valley's own!

2008 Statistics (figures based on the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008)

* Employees  
System Total:

3,841

MaineGeneral Health (parent)

123

MaineGeneral Medical Center

2,585

MaineGeneral Health Associates

307

MaineGeneral Rehabilitation & Nursing Care

373

MaineGeneral Retirement Community

 

(Granite Hill Estates)

55

Jackman Region Health Center

41

HealthReach Network

265

   
MaineGeneral Medical Center  
Total Beds:

287

Augusta Campus

126

Seton Campus 

51

Thayer Campus

110

   
2008 Inpatient Statistics  
Inpatient surgery cases

2,867

Discharges

13,510

Days of patient care

64,632

Babies born

1,151

   
Outpatient Statistics  
Outpatient visits

399,674

Emergency Department visits

69,900

Laboratory tests

338,965

Diagnostic imaging procedures

86,435

Outpatient surgery procedures

22,675

Physician Practices
Our physician practices include primary care and specialty practices.

We also hold specialty clinics to give area residents access to regularly scheduled specialists not based in this region. 

Our family medicine residency trains new primary care physicians who see patients in the medical center and at practice sites in Augusta and Fairfield.

2008 Physician Office Visits

224,476

MaineGeneral Health Associates

134,165

Family Medicine Institute

32,439

Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice

19,916

Four Seasons Family Practice

7,688

Specialty Clinic

27,054

Jackman Region Health Center

3,214

Long Term Care & Skilled Nursing  
Beds:

269

Gray Birch

114

Glenridge (special dementia unit)

125

Alzheimer's Care Center

30

   
2008 Inpatient Statistics  
Days of patient care (Gray Birch)

39,336

Days of patient care (Glenridge)

44,792

Days of patient care (Alzheimer's Care Center)

10,951

Rehabilitation
In 2008, we treated 1,543 people in our inpatient and outpatient alcohol and substance abuse programs and returned 379 individuals to their homes after rehabilitating them in our intensive inpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy program at MaineGeneral's Seton Campus.

HomeCare & Hospice  
2008 HomeCare visits

65,052

2008 Hospice visits

19,321

   
Granite Hill Estates  
Cottages (built or under construction)

46

Independent apartments

61

Assisted living apartments

16

Apartments for people with memory loss

8

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