{"id":828939,"date":"2026-08-28T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828939\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:36:11","slug":"some-surgeries-postponed-at-cmmc-over-equipment-sterilization-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828939\/","title":{"rendered":"Some surgeries postponed at CMMC over equipment sterilization issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEWISTON, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Some surgeries at Central Maine Medical Center are being postponed after state regulators found a problem with equipment used to sterilize surgical instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Department of Health and Human Services discovered the issue at the Lewiston hospital last week.<\/p>\n<p>CMMC says some non-urgent surgeries are being rescheduled, while some patients who need more immediate care are being sent to other hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston (WGME)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0175521f-e62f-4b7d-a03b-d411d210e68f-PCMMCHEALTHCARERECORDS.transferxcodemix48_frame_3336.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston (WGME)<\/p>\n<p>Maine Medical Center in Portland and Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick have already taken several patients.<\/p>\n<p>State and federal regulators are investigating, and CMMC has not said when full surgical services will resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEWISTON, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Some surgeries at Central Maine Medical Center are being postponed after state regulators found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-828939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}