[1] Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is also a major training affiliate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine.

However, overcrowding quickly becomes an issue, and to free up interior beds, the hospital pitches a tent during the summer to provide a recovery room for male outpatient surgery patients.

They also voted to disallow nonresidents of Bangor from being admitted to the hospital, except in an emergency, without a letter from their primary care physician stating the reason for their admission and a statement as to the patient's ability to pay.

An addition was constructed to the Mace House, a horse shed was added, "a very commodious bathroom"[7] was built on the second floor, and the outside of the facilities were improved.

Donations to the hospital this year were expansive, including barrels of apples, canned fruit, fresh flower, and at Christmastime, holiday cakes and gifts.

The board of trustees voted to tear down the existing Hospital and use its materials to help reduce the cost of constructing the new, larger building.

Extra trolley cars had to be put into service in Bangor and Old Town to help transport the large crowds, who came to take tours of the new facilities.

Hospital physicians blame the outbreak on the city's drinking water supply, which was piped in from the Penobscot River.

[15] In late 2012, the NLEMMC board of directors gave the final approval to a $287 million expansion project, to be taken on by Morris Switzer, a healthcare architecture firm.

[16] Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and its parent company, Northern Light Health, collaborated with Aroostook Medical Center, Inland Hospital, Sebasticook Valley Health, and six Wal-Mart stores, to open up The Clinic at Wal-Marts inside the stores in 2009.

[19] Healthcare at the Wal-Mart clinics was limited to simple health problems, such as colds; ear, nose, and throat issues; and minor burns.

"[21] The executive director of the Maine Medical Association, Gordon Smith, stated that the bylaw was "really a gag order.

[22][23][24] The union threatened a strike in late 2010, again citing failed discussions regarding nurse-patient ratios and outdated health insurance coverage.

[28] In previous years, NLEMMC was "A"-rated by Leapfrog Group, indicating a low risk of patient injury from medical error.