AUGUSTA — A state investigation has found a host of problems with the way the Maine Centers for Disease Control distributed millions of dollars to Healthy Maine Partnerships programs last year. Problems include supervisors who ordered the destruction of public documents, funding criteria that was changed during the selection process, HMP funding scores that were […]
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Investigation shows Maine CDC officials ordered documents destroyed
AUGUSTA — A state investigation has concluded that supervisors at the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered their staff to destroy documents related to the redistribution of healthy community coalition state funding last year. In June 2012, over a two-week period after the state budget was enacted, the CDC surveyed Maine’s 27 Healthy […]
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Former CDC division director files suit
Sharon Leahy-Lind, who said her bosses at the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention ordered her to shred public documents and harassed and discriminated against her when she refused, has filed suit against the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and Maine CDC director Sheila Pinette. DHHS oversees the Maine CDC. The suit, […]
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Maine CDC urges hepatitis vaccine for people who attended Durham event
AUGUSTA — A person infected with hepatitis A virus is reported to have served food at the Sept. 28 Durham Friends Meetinghouse, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The Maine CDC is investigating the event and urging the approximately 100 people who attended the church supper to get vaccinated to prevent illness. […]
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New Lyme disease estimate: 300,000 cases a year
ATLANTA (AP) — Lyme disease is about 10 times more common than previously reported, health officials said Monday. As many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced. Usually, only 20,000 to 30,000 illnesses are reported each year. For many years, CDC officials have […]
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New gonorrhea ads target young women; Almost half of reported cases in Maine last year in Androscoggin County
One poster with a beaming, vintage housewife reads: “Judgey Janet might call you a tramp. We just want you to call.” In another poster, a gorgeous, twentysomething man gazes out with smouldering eyes. Below him, the message: “Get tested, beautiful.” They’re part of an education campaign kicked off early this year by the state, targeting […]
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CDC director who made document-shredding allegations resigns
Sharon Leahy-Lind, the state agency director who said her bosses at the Maine Center for Disease Control ordered her to shred public documents and harassed and discriminated against her when she refused, has resigned. In a statement released through her lawyer Wednesday afternoon, Leahy-Lind said her job has been “impossible to do” since she filed […]
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Audits cite serious problems in the state’s day-to-day operations
That’s because the state has no well-documented disaster recovery plan and doesn’t run periodic disaster tests. Thousands of Mainers may be taking advantage of the unemployment system run by the Maine Department of Labor, forcing the state to spend millions of dollars more than it should. Or not. No one really knows. One-third of the […]
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Deputy DA: No charges in CDC document shredding
If the Maine Attorney General’s Office follows the recommendation of a Kennebec County deputy district attorney, no one at the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention will face charges for the destruction of public documents. In January 2014, Attorney General Janet Mills asked the Augusta-area deputy district attorney, Fernand LaRochelle, to look into possible […]