Becker's Healthcare December 6, 2024
Lewiston, Maine-based St. Mary’s Health System will phase out ICU services at its flagship hospital by the end of the year as part of a plan to realign strategic focus on high-demand services in the region.
“As we are not a traditional trauma center, we want to align our offerings with the demand for short-stay admissions and outpatient care,” the system said in a Dec. 4 news release, which also mentioned plans to adjust inpatient capacity “to better reflect current demand for lower acuity services.”
A spokesperson for the health system, part of Tewksbury, Mass.-based Covenant Health, told the Sun Journal that, with roughly one patient per day in the ICU and other hospitals in the area offering...
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