Maine Medical Center
hospital in Maine, United States
MaineHealth Maine Medical Center Portland (MMCP), commonly contracted to Maine Med, is a 929-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Portland, Maine, United States. Affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine, it is located in the Western Promenade neighborhood. It has a staff of over 6,000. The facility is one of only three Level I Trauma Centers in Northern New England. Founded in 1874, it is the largest hospital in northern New England with 28,000 inpatient visits, about 500,000 outpatient visits, 88,000 emergency visits, and over 27,000 surgeries performed annually. MMCP is structured as a non-profit, private corporation governed by volunteer trustees. Maine Medical Center Portland is wholly owned by, and serves as the flagship hospital for MaineHealth, a non-profit healthcare network servicing Maine and New Hampshire.
History
Maine Medical Center is the largest tertiary care hospital in Northern New England, serving all of Maine and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire. It is a Level I Trauma Center, previously named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top hospitals in America for heart care, orthopedics and gynecology, and home to the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital, cited as one of the Top 25 children's hospitals in the country.
Maine Medical Center is a teaching hospital, with an affiliation with the University of Southern Maine, Saint Joseph's College, Tufts University and Dartmouth College.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6736406. VIAF identifies the subject as 139519112. The Library of Congress control number is n00074676. Authority coordinates are 43.653, -70.276. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1874.
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