Keywords: Hospital Bed
Item 104372
Mercy Hospital, Portland, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Northern Light Mercy Hospital Date: circa 1945 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 14112
Children's Hospital, Portland, 1934
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1934 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus
Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.
Exhibit
Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy
"Modern hospital care as its understood in the 21st century, is a recent development in medical history."
Site Page
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Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
