AUGUSTA — An independent review of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention found, among other things, that the agency makes it difficult for staff members in different departments to work together, that it needs to better train its workers to deal with diverse groups of people and that some staff members feel managers […]
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CDC office manager asks to join whistle-blower suit
RELATED NEWS: Lawmakers vote to subpoena Maine CDC officials involved in document-shredding probe A Maine Center of Disease Control & Prevention office manager wants to join the whistle-blower lawsuit filed by a former Maine CDC division director. And the suit plans to accuse additional CDC officials — Deputy Director Christine Zukas and Office of Minority Health […]
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CDC suit gets new lawyers; computer info secured
The Maine Attorney General’s Office is no longer defending the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in a federal whistle-blower lawsuit brought by a former Maine Center for Disease Control division director. DHHS, which oversees the CDC, has two new lawyers. And as the lawsuit continues, computer hard drives have been taken from several […]
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Former director says FBI investigating Maine CDC
Sharon Leahy-Lind said Friday in an interview with the Sun Journal that she has “fully cooperated with the FBI” while investigators there look into issues at the CDC. A spokesman for the CDC said he was unaware of an FBI investigation. A spokesman for the FBI said he could neither confirm nor deny an agency […]
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CMCC, Maine CDC to host info sessions after student gets TB
AUBURN — Central Maine Community College will kick off the spring semester with information sessions about tuberculosis after roughly 300 people affiliated with the school were warned last week of possible exposure to the bacterial disease. State health officials informed the college on Jan. 10 that an individual associated with CMCC recently was hospitalized for […]
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DHHS kept critical internal CDC review to itself
An internal review last spring by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services uncovered some of the very same problems at the Maine Center for Disease Control that were flagged last week in a state investigation. But that internal review — released this week by DHHS in response to a Sun Journal Freedom of […]