On Monday, May 23, 2016, Tony McKim, President & CEO of First National Bank, met with DECH Board Chair, David Whitney, and DECH President & CEO, Dennis Welsh at First National Bank’s Bar Harbor branch to present them with a ceremonial $25,000 check representing their very generous donation to the DECH Emergency Department Expansion.
On Monday, May 16, 2016, DECH Board Chair, David Whitney, and DECH President and CEO, Dennis Welsh met with Bar Harbor Bank & Trust’s Susan Albee, Branch Relationship Manager, Machias and Maureen Lord, VP, Regional Branch Relationship Manager, to personally thank them for their generous $50,000 donation to the Emergency Department expansion project.
The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) is proud to honor Geri Bryant, Administrator of Sunrise Care Facility in Jonesport, Maine, as a 2016 recipient of the ACHCA Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award
Last fall, members of the Machias Rotary donated their time and hard work to reclaim the beauty that once was the Hospital courtyard. They weeded and cut back old growth and then planted hundreds of tulip bulbs.
DECH is pleased to announce that they have recently signed a strategic network participant agreement with EMHS.
Blake Alexander Ampuja, Down East Community Hospital’s leap year baby of 2016, was born at 5:10pm. Monday.
Ashley Whitman Curtis PT, DPT, MS, CKTP, a physical therapist at Down East Community Hospital, recently achieved the status of Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner.
On Tuesday, January 27, 2016, Down East Community Hospital signed an agreement to work with Emergency Department management and staffing firm BlueWater Emergency Partners.
On Friday, January 15 2016, Machias Saving Bank President and CEO, Larry Barker, presented a $250,000 donation to DECH Board Chair, David Whitney, and DECH President and CEO, Dennis Welsh for the Emergency Department Expansion.
Sue Dorr, a licensed social worker who started work at Down East Community Hospital in 1979 decided to retire after 36 years of service.
