Program accreditation
BANGOR — Penobscot Community Health Care announce the accreditation of its Postgraduate Year Two Health Systems Pharmacy Administration Residency Program by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. PCHC hosts the first accredited HSPA residency in Maine and one of two accredited HSPA residencies in New England.
The residency program began in 2013 with one resident and will expand to two residents this year. PCHC also offers an accredited Postgraduate Year One Community Pharmacy Residency Program which began in 2011 and hosts three to four residents each year.
Felicity Homsted, PCHC director of pharmacy, said, ‘‘We are extremely proud of this accomplishment. As an organization, PCHC is very committed to not only growing strong
clinicians within our programs but also fostering future leaders. Health care is changing at an
exceptionally rapid pace, the graduates of our programs are ready for the challenges of the health
care world. It is very rewarding to see the impact that program residents are able to make as a
result of their intensive training.”
Business award
BANGOR — St Joseph Healthcare announced recently that it received a Bronze Stevie Award in the Best Annual Report-Print category in The 13th annual American Business Awards in Chicago on June 22.
The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the United States are eligible to submit nominations — public and private, for-profit and nonprofit, large and small.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards were presented to winners during a gala banquet at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel. More than 400 nominees and their guests attended.
Dental residents
BANGOR — Penobscot Community Health Care announced recently that four new general practice dental residents have joined PCHC Dental Center under the direction of of Dr. Philip Higgins Jr., chief dental officer and general practice residency director. The residents, Dr. Robert Atwell, Dr. Andrew Lam, Dr. Elyse Patrella and Dr. Phillip Claassen began their new duties on June 22.
Chief medical informatics officer
BREWER — Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems president and CEO M. Michelle Hood announced recently that Dr. Michele Lauria will join EMHS as the system’s first chief medical informatics officer. Lauria previously was the associate medical director for information services, as well as a maternal fetal medicine specialist and professor in the obstetrics, gynecology and radiology department at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Lauria is board certified in maternal fetal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and clinical informatics. Before practicing and teaching at Dartmouth Hitchcock, she practiced at Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan.
Lauria’s first day at EMHS was June 28.