Tax filings show Central Maine Healthcare’s spending during turmoil

Health care

Published
February 9, 2020

Tax filings show Central Maine Healthcare’s spending during turmoil

Newly available documents show the Lewiston-based health system paid its CEO a $200,000 bonus, gave CMMC’s former president a half-million dollars as severance pay after leaving, gave millions to an Illinois consultant and over $1 million to an international law firm.
Published
February 4, 2020

Commission calls for pay hike for workers who provide home care for senior citizens

How much the increase to 125% of the state's minimum wage would cost the state is not yet clear.
Published
January 28, 2020

Maine hospital system limits visitors as flu cases grow

At least eight people have died from the flu in Maine this season.
Published
January 24, 2020

Health groups propose statewide network of ‘low-barrier’ drug treatment clinics

The pilot proposal, which carries a price tag of $920,000, comes at a time when drug overdose deaths appear to be rising again despite efforts to tackle the problem.
Published
January 24, 2020

Waterville market worker had hepatitis A while preparing food sold to customers

The Maine Center for Disease Control and state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry are warning customers who may have purchased food from Joseph's Market on Front Street from Dec. 27, 2019 to Jan. 9 this year that they may be at risk of being infected.
Published
January 24, 2020

Five overdose deaths so far this month have Portland on alert

Police say the rash of overdoses is concerning and yet another sign that the state's prolonged opioid crisis has not abated.
Published
January 23, 2020

Despite efforts to stem epidemic, Maine overdose deaths appear to be on rise again after 1-year dip

The Medical Examiner's Office says 277 Mainers died from drug overdoses in the first 9 months of 2019, putting the state on track to surpass the total for 2018.
Published
January 23, 2020

Advocates for Maine dental bill press Mills for support

An advocacy group presented 1,500 signed postcards to the governor's office, urging her to back a measure to give dental benefits to adult Medicaid recipients. The change would help roughly 70,000 people receive preventive care.
Published
January 22, 2020

Portland’s Shalom House to end mental health program for 170 clients

The nonprofit says Maine's stagnant Medicaid reimbursement rates led to mounting losses that forced it to close the program that assists adult mental health patients with daily tasks.
Published
January 22, 2020

Bill would remove waiting periods for children’s dentistry

Democratic State Sen. Heather Sanborn said the proposal is about making sure children can receive dental treatment when they need it.