Mid Coast Hospital Nurses in the Media

"Keeping Up With Donna Guenther", by Sarah Jordan. Times Record, July 15, 2003.

"It's only 7:30 a.m. at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, but doctors and nurses are hustling from patient to patient, filling out paperwork and gasping excitedly over the Hospital Week free breakfast cart.

Donna Guenther, a confident, dark haired, bright-eyed nurse practitioner who lives in Bath, is already in deep conversation with Bill Curtis, a surgeon. She calmly but quickly explains how she saved his gall bladder patient — "Stan," who had suffered from severe dehydration — by upping his fluids the night before." Full Story

"Skillings selected as nurse fellow." Business Briefs, Times Record, June 11, 2008.

"BRUNSWICK — Lois Skillings, R.N., vice president for nursing and patient care services at Mid Coast Hospital, has been selected as one of 20 national Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows." Full Story

"Mid Coast Hospital earns a 'gold star". Times Record, November 26, 2007.

"BRUNSWICK — Mid Coast Hospital has received the Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network's Gold Star Award for "exemplary leadership in tobacco issues"...

"...It is indeed a journey, and we continue to strive to eliminate smoking from the hospital environment while at the same time providing support and education to smokers through smoking cessation programs and the work of our community partner, ACCESS Health," said Marla Davis, a registered nurse and certified tobacco cessation speciality." Full Story

"Hospital Auxiliary Starts Teddy Bear Club" Times Record, May 16, 2008

""The stuffed animals are an important tool we use to help allay children's fears in the hospital environment," said Lois Skillings RN, the hospital's vice president of nursing and patient care services. June King RN, unit coordinator of ambulatory care agrees." Full Story

"Oasis Clinic applies team approach to diabetes care" by Sara Schlotterbeck, Times Record, May 3, 2006

""When blood sugar is not under control, it sets you up for many complications associated with diabetes," Terry Marcello, nurse coordinator at the Oasis Health Center, said of the dangers diabetics encounter if they do not take medications properly. "These complications can be very serious, affecting eyesight, kidney health and blood circulation."" Full Story