Maine Community Health Options will offer members lower costs and better coverage, company officials say.
Kelley Bouchard
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Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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State may fund AMHI memorial
A bill would raise $50,000 for what a co-sponsor says is ‘the final tribute’ to those who died at the state psychiatric hospital.
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Legislature considers memorial for lost souls of AMHI
The Legislature is considering a bill to appropriate $50,000 to erect a permanent memorial to the lost souls of AMHI on the grounds of the former hospital, overlooking the Kennebec River.
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Mercy, Eastern Maine get federal OK to merge
The two health care systems still must get approvals from the state and the Vatican.
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LePage says mental health care best remedy for gun violence
But Maine’s annual spending on mental health care has dropped by $27 million since 2008.
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LePage touts mental health record amid gun control debate
Gov. Paul LePage is pointing to his record on mental health care spending as he lobbies the Obama administration and Maine’s congressional delegation to follow his lead rather than support increased gun control in response to the shootings in Newtown, Conn.
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Portland Press Herald reporter, Waterville native earns prestigious award
The George Polk Award is for a report on for-profit online education firms
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Bill expands autism coverage with specialized care
When Addie Bowden was diagnosed with autism at nearly 3 years old, she still didn’t speak and sometimes didn’t recognize family members. She would slap herself repeatedly on the forehead and scream, trying to communicate her wants and needs.
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Icelandic shipping company moving to Portland
Eimskip will open a warehouse and begin operating out of Portland at the end of March, replacing its container operation in Norfolk, Va.
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Study: Mainers lack access to regular dental care
Nearly 40 percent of Maine’s 1.3 million people live in federally designated Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas.