Staff at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center’s behavioral emergency department are seeing more psychiatric patients than ever before. And sometimes, those patients get violent with staff.
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Many healthy Americans, including students in school, can take a break from masks, CDC says
Most of Maine remains at high risk under the new guidelines and masks are still recommended indoors in 13 of the state’s 16 counties.
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As nurses call attention to emergency room violence, Maine Medical Center steps up support
Nurses and hospital officials say the emergency department is facing more pressures from a growing number of patients with mental illnesses, some of whom can be violent.
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Maine’s pandemic death toll passes 2,000 while COVID hospitalizations drop to 4-month low
As Maine hospitalizations drop below 200 patients for the first time since October, the state reports 53 additional deaths from a review of vital records.
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Maine Med emergency department nurses to protest ‘workplace violence’
A union official says, ‘They have been kicked, hit, spit upon and concussed at the hands of patients.’
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U.S. pregnancy-related deaths climbed in 2020, with Black women most affected
A federal report does not include reasons for the trend and researchers said they have not fully examined how COVID-19 might have contributed.
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Pressure eases on Maine hospitals as patient counts continue to drop
Hospitals are beginning to ease pandemic restrictions, and South Portland and Brunswick rescinded indoor mask mandates this week.
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Is omicron leading us to herd immunity against COVID?
Early hopes faded for several reasons, experts say.
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Wastewater tests show COVID-19’s continuing decline in Maine
COVID-19 hospitalizations also are down, more than 50% since the January peak.
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COVID hospitalizations in Maine cut in half since omicron peak last month
As of Monday, 216 people were hospitalized with the virus in Maine, the lowest total since Nov. 9.