The Cancer Care Center at Pen Bay Medical Center is pleased to announce Constance Thyng’s new position as nurse manager.
Thyng brings years of oncology nursing to this role as well as her recent experience as an operating room nurse at Pen Bay. She has served Pen Bay in other capacities including in the emergency room, day surgery and minor surgery. Previously, she worked in oncology at Franklin Hospital in Rumford and Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
“I consider myself very fortunate. When I was six I “helped” Dr. Richard Waterman sew up a laceration on my leg. I informed him that I was going to be a nurse and did not waiver in my decision,” said Thyng.
Thyng began in oncology in 1999 as a per diem nurse and quickly fell in love with the patients and the challenge of the ever-changing therapies. She is certified in oncology as are 50 percent of the nursing staff in Pen Bay’s Cancer Care Center. This is double the amount needed to maintain an outstanding rating by the Commission on Cancer.
Thyng is president of the Five Counties of Maine Chapter of the Oncology Nursing Society where she takes an active role in education and networking with peers to further their understanding and care of those afflicted by cancer: in the prevention of survivorship, those actively being treated, or those in palliative care and the caregiver.
Thyng lives in Rockland and enjoys the best of the Midcoast. She loves to be on the water sailing, in the water fly-fishing or near the water birding or reading.
For more information about cancer care, contact the Pen Bay Cancer Care Center at 596-8969.
Pen Bay Medical Center is the leading regional referral hospital in Midcoast Maine and a member of the not-for-profit Pen Bay Healthcare family of services, which includes Pen Bay Physicians & Associates, Kno-Wal-Lin Home Care and Hospice, Quarry Hill Retirement Community and the Knox Center for Long Term Care.
Through these organizations, and with a staff of more than 100 outstanding physicians and more than 1500 healthcare professionals, Pen Bay is able to provide the people of Midcoast Maine with a continuum of both routine and specialty patient-centered medical services.
A member of the MaineHealth system, Pen Bay Medical Center ranked in the top 10 percent for quality and safety among the more than 1,000 hospitals in 43 states that participated in a 2011 survey by the Leapfrog Group. Pen Bay also ranked fourth out of 37 hospitals in Maine. For more information, please visit www.pbmc.org.
