Exhibit: One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC Text by Ann Trainor
Images from Eastern Maine Medical Center Five physicians
combined efforts in 1892 to create Bangor General Hospital to
serve Bangor and the surrounding areas. They leased the Mace
house on State Street, at the foot of what is now known as
Summit Avenue, for the new facility; its doors opened to
patients on June 7, 1892. It consisted of an operating room and
rooms for patients and treated 150 patients within its first
year. This hospital, now named Eastern Maine Medical Center,
serves as the cornerstone of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems
and provides three-quarters of the primary-care hospital
services offered in the Bangor area, as well as specialty and
intensive care services to the northern two-thirds of Maine.
This exhibit is based on one held in September 1992 at the
Bangor Civic Center. Eastern Maine Medical Centers "100 Years of
Caring" offered a "walk through time," highlighting events from
the hospital's first century of service. Hospit