Our Maine Street's Aroostook Issue 30 : Fall 2016 | Page 26

didn’t feel the impact of the construction
going on all around them. They were
absolute troopers throughout this major
renovation project,” Anderson said.
The next phase of the room renovation
project will extend to other Inpatient
Units as further design work and Board
approval dictates.
During the past 38 years the 65-bed
acute care hospital facility has undergone
many structural changes and upgrades,
including the additions of the Pines
Center for Women’s and Children’s
Health, the Women’s Imaging Center,
the Pines Orthopedics and Sports
Medicine Suite, and the Jefferson Cary
Cancer Center.
Cary Medical Center is also home to the
first Veterans Administration Outpatient
Clinic located in a private rural hospital
in the United States. The Maine Veterans
Home, a 40-bed long-term care facility
and a 30-bed Residential Care facility, is
also physically attached to the hospital
facility. Cary is unique in that it is a
municipally owned hospital, the only
such facility in the state of Maine, and
is Caribou’s largest employer with over
500 full and part-time staff, 60 active
medical staff providers, 100 courtesy
and consulting physicians, almost 100
active volunteers and a very active Ladies
Auxiliary.
In recent years, the hospital has been
listed amongst the top hospitals in
the country for patient safety, health
information and technology and has
received numerous state and national
awards for patient safety and quality
in both customer service and clinical
performance.

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