Press releases and Feature stories | St. Maarten Medical Center

On Tuesday October 13, 2020 SMMC’s Outbreak Management Team (OMT) announced that SMMC’s Auxiliary Care Facility (ACF), located at the basketball court at Raoul Illidge Sports Complex opposite SMMC, has recently been given the all clear and is now in full operation.As a result of the clearance given, the ACF can now be used as a specialized care facility and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, SMMC has transferred all its regular COVID care to the ACF. The off-premises ACF features sixteen (16) ...

Ahead of the transfer of care to the new storm-resilient Auxiliary Care Facility (ACF), SMMC gave a tour to the Honorable Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs, the Minister of Public Health, Social Development and Labor (VSA) Richard Panneflek and the Inspectorate of Health Dr. Earl Best.

~ New state-of-the-art mammography machine named Time Magazine’s Best Inventions in 2019~

In an effort to weather any possible storms, SMMC has made arrangements for its COVID care facilities that are located outside SMMC to be made more storm resilient.

SMMC has taken note of a media report from Omrop Fryslan that was published today in which a recently arrived rotational specialist has made statements which are not accurate.