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MCHP appoints Ken Albert board chairman

LEWISTON — Maine College of Health Professions has appointed alum Ken Albert, chief executive officer of Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice, as its board chairman. A 1986 graduate of the college’s nursing program, Albert has

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Pilot Program to Combat Social Isolation

Androscoggin’s Telehealth Department will introduce a pilot program, AndroPEERConnects to help combat loneliness and social isolation for patients receiving care through telehealth devices. Patients who are homebound, recovering from an illness or injury, or managing

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Passing Down Your Family Values

By Brian Croteau When you are caring for a sick parent it seems like your time together is spent going from one doctor to another, tests, surgeries, hospital, home and then that cycle repeats, almost

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AndroSTRONG Emergency Response Fund

Meet Home Health Registered Nurse extraordinaire, Katie Sappington! Katie has worked at Androscoggin for the past eight years as a Home Health Nurse and Preceptor in the Norway office. Home health care helps patients recover from

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Stories, Lessons, and Final Gifts

Written by: Karen Flynn, RN Retired Director of Hospice and Palliative Care at Androscoggin I can still vividly recall my first hospice patient. She was an unfortunate woman in her early fifties who was living

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