Source: Maine Health Data Organization * FY2013 figures are preliminary LEWISTON — Last year, Central Maine Healthcare sent out inquiries to five health care organizations asking whether any would consider taking CMHC on as a member, drawing CMHC and its affiliated hospitals and physicians’ offices under their respective umbrellas. None accepted the overture, including neighboring […]
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Maine Medicare expenditures below national average
Maine hospitals are touting new data released by the federal government showing the state delivers health care to seniors more cost effectively than most of its counterparts. A Maine health care cost and quality organization, however, urged examining the numbers from a global perspective. On Monday, Medicare released a trove of data aimed at making […]
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Early chill, spike in fires, storms straining Maine Red Cross resources
BANGOR — Nicole Argraves knew little about the American Red Cross until last month, when her family lost nearly all of their belongings when fire gutted their rented mobile home in Freeport. “I mean, I knew in a vague sense, like everybody does, what the Red Cross does, but (after having) a one-on-one personal experience, […]
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Maine hospitals fare well in emergency care report
PORTLAND (AP) — Emergency care at Maine’s hospitals has received high marks from a national physicians group, even though there is plenty of room for improvement. Maine was ranked third in the nation for providing emergency care services in a report card released Thursday by the American College of Emergency Physicians. The group based the […]
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Norway hospital among Maine’s best rural hospitals
AUGUSTA (AP) — A survey is giving Maine’s rural hospitals high marks. Nine of 22 hospitals on the Leapfrog Group’s 2013 Top Rural Hospitals list released this week were in Maine. All told, more than 200 rural hospitals nationwide were part of the survey. The Top Hospitals designation recognizes hospitals that prevent medical errors, reduce […]
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Ellsworth hospital plans layoffs, budget cuts
ELLSWORTH — Maine Coast Memorial Hospital told its employees this week that it will have to cut its annual budget by about $3 million, which will result in some layoffs. A look at the first quarter of this fiscal year showed an operating loss of $635,000, hospital CEO Charlie Therrien said. He attributed the loss […]
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Maine solicits bids for state’s wholesale liquor contract
AUGUSTA — The state’s wholesale liquor business is up for grabs to the lowest bidder. The contract to administer and provide trade marketing for the state’s hard liquor business could be worth more than half a billion dollars over the 10-year contract. The state is looking for a company that will share more of the […]
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Glad to get that big debt off our backs
All Mainers should stand a bit taller today knowing we have finally paid off some big debts we have been lugging around for a long time. Gov. Paul LePage visited Central Maine Medical Center on Wednesday to deliver an oversized Publishers Clearing House-style check for $43.4 million. There should be no doubt that the governor […]
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LePage to visit CMMC at 2 p.m. today to pay MaineCare debt
LEWISTON — Gov. Paul LePage will visit Central Maine Medical Center at 2 p.m. Wednesday to deliver the news that the state is making good on a $183 million debt it has owed the state’s 39 hospitals beginning in 2009. The state payment for past services provided under MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid system, will trigger […]
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Maine Democrats and LePage renew debate over Medicaid expansion
AUGUSTA — Leaders in the Legislature’s Democratic majority renewed calls Tuesday to expand the MaineCare system to cover an additional 70,000 people, including childless adults and veterans who have non-service-related medical issues not covered by the Veterans Affairs Administration. House Speaker Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, disputed Republican claims that accepting federal funds under the Affordable […]