Flyte recently launched another Joomla-powered Web site, this time for St. Mary’s Health System which includes:
- St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, a Lewiston, Maine-based 233-bed acute care facility
- Community Clinical Services, with primary care and specialty; physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and midwives
- St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion,
one of the largest nursing homes north of Boston, with 210 beds
dedicated to long-term care, a secure Alzheimer’s unit, and the Center
for Transitional Rehab Care; - St. Mary’s Residences , an independent living center; and
- St. Mary’s WorkMed, occupational health services, which provides comprehensive worksite services to businesses in Androscoggin County and beyond.
The site serves the community with a wealth of information on women’s health, senior’s health, behavioral health and more. There are some other nice features as well:
Doctor Search: Visitors can search for primary care, specialists, and other health care professionals in Central Maine. Searches can be filtered by specialty, location or name.
Online Nursery: The hospital photographer can login and upload new baby photos that are password protected so that families can easily share photos of their newborns with friends and family only.
Calender of Events: Visitors can view the events calendar which is color coded with event types such as Grand Rounds, Childbirth Education, and Nutrition Classes among others. They can also do a keyword search for upcoming events.
Gift Shop Live Video: Not sure what to get a loved one in the hospital? Call up the gift shop and they’ll walk different gifts and flower arrangements in front of the Web cam so that you can see what you’re about to buy. Now we just have to get them to center those flowers in the frame. 
E-Commerce Enabled: The site is also secure to take online donations and accept payments for services.
Because this site was built on the Joomla open-source Content Management System, St. Mary’s has the ability to add, edit delete content on pages as well as create new pages and update the navigation, all without any HTML knowledge.
There were a lot of people at flyte and St. Mary’s (Sue comes to mind) that worked hard on this site, but I want to give an especially loud "we’re not worthy" to our own Lindsay Doherty who took on the bulk of the work of managing the project, learning Joomla, answering questions, and keeping everything on track. We couldn’t have done it without you.
If you find you need medical care in Central Maine, be sure to contact St. Mary’s Health System. If you’re looking for a professionally designed Joomla Web site, contact flyte new media.
