With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals

nursing homes

Published
March 5, 2023

With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals

A lack of beds and staffing at assisted living facilities and nursing homes creates an unwelcome situation that benefits neither the languishing patients nor the hospitals shouldering their care.
Published
January 31, 2023

Homemakers helping the community

Franklin County Extension Homemakers of UMaine's Cooperative Extension program are looking to the future as they get ready to find their next community project while reflecting on their community project from the previous year.
Published
December 21, 2022

Nursing homes risk another wave of COVID deaths as vaccinations lag

Fewer than half of all nursing home residents in the United States have received the latest coronavirus vaccine booster shot.
Published
December 12, 2022

Nursing home services may be consolidated at new, higher-cost facility in Damariscotta

Clippership Landing could help LincolnHealth stem years of financial losses at two existing long-term care sites. But the project comes with trade-offs, too.
Published
September 8, 2022

Maine CDC investigating COVID-19 outbreaks at 26 long-term care facilities in the state

One outbreak is at Woodlands Senior Living of Waterville and involves 27 residents and four staff, according to the Maine CDC.
Published
August 31, 2022

Mostly quiet on the COVID front in Oxford Hills

BA.5, the current dominant variant of COVID-19 has started to level off. Another subvariant called BA.4.6 has shown a slight increase since July.
Published
January 15, 2022

Maine nursing homes fear that a strong flu season would push them over the edge

Health professionals say staffing shortages are the worst they have ever seen, and the risk of influenza outbreaks makes a terrible situation worse.
Published
October 24, 2021

Diagnosis burnout: Acute staffing shortages weigh on Maine nurses who stay on the job

Many employed at assisted-living and long-term care facilities point to relentless stress, and the toll it takes on those who need their care.
Published
June 28, 2021

Tri-county nursing home staff are less vaccinated than residents, data shows

Residents of the 14 nursing homes located in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties are vaccinated at a higher rate than the health care personnel who work there, according to data from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
Published
March 16, 2021

Nursing homes still wait for more vaccine, which could be coming

Maine public health officials move to provide vaccine to long-term care facilities left without allocations while having new residents who are unvaccinated.