PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A homeless shelter in Maine is reopening after it closed abruptly over the prospect of losing Medicaid reimbursements.
The Milestone Foundation emergency shelter is scheduled to reopen Friday night following an agreement reached Thursday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The shelter’s clients, most of whom are addicted to drugs or alcohol, had to be moved elsewhere after closing its 41-bed facility on Nov. 1.
The Portland Press Herald reports (http://bit.ly/ur10S7) that the shelter was forced to reduce significantly the number of shelter beds it provides by then or face losing its federal Medicaid reimbursements.
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