Pandemic hospitalizations in Maine continue to flatten and decline

Closing down activity in the state has flattened the COVID-19 curve and taken the pressure off hospitals, a Press Herald analysis finds, but dangers remain.

State gives final approval to Central Maine Healthcare’s proposed $38 million cancer center

DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew authorized the facility, which will update and centralize treatment in one building in Lewiston.

Central Maine Healthcare furloughs 300 workers

The temporary leave affects about 10% of its workforce.

As health care shifts, so do health care employees

Primary care doctors are leaving their offices to work in hospitals and nurses are staffing screening tents as the entire industry adapts to the coronavirus.

Some hospitals screening everyone for COVID-19 symptoms

Central Maine Healthcare checking employees, patients and visitors for symptoms.

How Lewiston’s biggest hospital responded to the growing COVID-19 threat

Internal memos from Central Maine Healthcare show its rapidly escalating preparation to deal with deadly new virus this month.

CMHC says it can’t provide COVID-19 tests to show people are healthy

Central Maine Healthcare says it faces a barrage of test requests from people seeking to show their bosses they don't have the disease.

CMMC to postpone elective inpatient surgeries, limit building access as other community organizations close

Starting Monday, some elective surgeries involving overnight stays will be put off until the virus hazard has been reduced at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston as other organizations close or cancel events.

Tax filings show Central Maine Healthcare’s spending during turmoil

Newly available documents show the Lewiston-based health system paid its CEO a $200,000 bonus, gave CMMC’s former president a half-million dollars as severance pay after leaving, gave millions to an Illinois consultant and over $1 million to an international law firm.

Who else got a bonus?