Healthcare is one of this region’s greatest assets.  The region is home to three hospitals all providing quality care. 

• Eastern Maine Medical Center is the region’s tertiary care facility serving all of central, eastern and northern Maine
• Saint Joseph’s Hospital is a 112-bed acute care community hospital run by the Felician Sisters which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary.
• Acadia Hospital is a community-based mental health and substance abuse treatment facility.
  
  

The Bangor Region has a number of other healthcare facilities from nursing homes to assisted living to one of the State’s largest mental health institutes.  These facilities along with the professionals that run them insure central Maine as a premier healthcare service center  These facilities along with the professionals that run them insure central Maine as a premier healthcare service center