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New rooms for oncology patients at Maine Medical Center are designed to improve quality of care.
Updated: December 6, 2019
Maine Med unveils new cancer-care floors in ongoing revamp
Courtesy / Maine Medical Center
Aerial view of Maine Medical Center in Portland showing the rooftop helipads set to open this month, as part of an ongoing $534 million expansion project.
By Staff
Portland's Maine Medical Center this week unveiled two new floors for cancer care inside the expanded and newly named Coulombe Family Tower, part of an ongoing $534 million revamp of the hospital campus on Bramhall Street.
The Susan Donnell Konkel Pavilion for Surgical Oncology and the Marshall L. and Susan Gibson Pavilion for Medical Oncology include 64 private, single-patient rooms for cancer treatment. Maine Med showed off the new facilities at a Wednesday ribbon-cutting event.
“Today marks a great step forward in the quality of care and the care experience our patients receive,” said Maine Medical Center President Jeffrey Sanders in a news release.
“These new private rooms will significantly improve the healing environment for our oncology patients and will begin to help address some of the capacity challenges Maine Medical Center has been increasingly experiencing over the past several years."
Maine Med's expansion and modernization project will eventually add a total of 128 private rooms and 19 procedure rooms for surgeries and other complex treatments, re-orient the front of the medical center to Congress Street and improve parking for patients and staff.
Wednesday's event also celebrated the Linda and Diana Bean Sisters Heliport, scheduled to open this month. It will allow for two helicopters to land atop the Coulombe Tower simultaneously, providing direct access to the 637-bed hospital's emergency department via elevator.
“Maine Medical Center serves the sickest patients in our region and is recognized as playing a critical role in the region’s continuum of care,” said Joel Botler, Maine Med's chief medical officer. “Our modernized facilities will allow us to continue to meet the growing acute care needs of our patients and allow our dedicated care teams to operate at their very highest capabilities.”
Medical oncology patients requiring hospitalization will move into the Marshall L. and Susan Gibson Pavilion for Medical Oncology on the new seventh floor this month.
Patients are scheduled to move in to the Susan Donnell Konkel Pavilion for Surgical Oncology on the new sixth floor 2020, two years before the expansion is due to be completed.
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