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MaineHealth Franklin Hospital opens new Cancer Care and IV Therapy center

MaineHealth Franklin Hospital held a ribbon cutting and open house for the newly renovated Cancer Care and IV Therapy center.

The research arm of Maine’s largest health care network will be partnering with Tufts University.

The service, a department of MaineHealth Franklin, was formerly known as NorthStar EMS.

The service, a department of MaineHealth Franklin, was formerly known as NorthStar EMS.

Dr. Adrian Moran will be MaineHealth’s chief medical and transformation officer.

The changes at Northern Light Health and MaineHealth include discontinuing certain anesthetic gases and pivoting to renewable heating sources.

The state’s second-largest health care system operated at a deficit the past two years and expects to do so again in 2024.

The rate of new acute cases, though highest in the nation, has decreased every year since peaking in 2020.

Area hospitals look to shifting responsibilities, recruitment, and even artificial intelligence for solutions.

Long waitlists for front-line doctors are causing some people to wait months to be seen, others to just give up.