Category: News & Events

Over 150 community members came out to view the new Emergency Department at Down East Community Hospital last week. 

In 2015, 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.  Since then Master Gardener, Susan Carlton, has added her expertise along with many plants. 

Senator Angus King and Local Constituent Services Representative, Scott Wilkinson, visited Down East Community Hospital to talk about current healthcare legislation with Senior Leaders. 

Down East Community Hospital celebrated their volunteers and the DECH Auxiliary volunteers during Volunteer Recognition Week with a recognition luncheon at the Bluebird Restaurant. 

If you are thinking about weight loss surgery or have had weight loss surgery, Join us at Down East Community Hospital for our first bariatric weight loss surgery support group.  The

Down East Community Hospital’s Rehabilitation Department hosted its first open house on Friday to meet and greet local providers, hospital trustees, and department leaders and to proudly show their new space. 

April is National Donate Life Month and Down East Community Hospital along with its specialty and family practices in Machias, Jonesport, and Milbridge have been busy bringing awareness to this very important cause.

Machias – Down East Community Hospital is the proud recipient of a $25,000 donation from Wyman’s of Maine.

A special luncheon took place at the Bluebird Restaurant last week to congratulate the Emergency Department Expansion Capital Campaign Committee on reaching their $1.5 million goal and to thank them for all of their hard work throughout the year.

Machias – Lisa Seeley, Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager of Bangor Savings Bank’s Machias and Jonesport offices, presents DECH CEO, Dennis Welsh with a $30,000 donation for the Emergency Department expansion project.