Places that are tied to travel and tourism are less insulated, and that has important implications for government spending plans.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
UMaine System, unions settle dispute over retirees’ health insurance
The deal affects about 3,000 retirees, who will now have the option of keeping a group health plan that would have been replaced by a health exchange system.
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Posted inHealth, Kennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Top MaineGeneral officials expect uptick in COVID cases because of holidays
MaineGeneral Health’s chief executive officer, Chuck Hays, and Steve Diaz, the health system’s chief medical officer, urge people to follow safety protocol and not to spend holidays with anyone they don’t live with, except virtually.
Posted inHealth, Kennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville-based Delta Ambulance short of staff
Coronavirus has compounded the statewide problem that existed before its onset as it attacks EMTs and those training for the service.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Insight: Nothing will be easy about COVID vaccine
Buying doses for everyone on Earth, storing the vaccine, shipping it and administering it will be difficult and expensive.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Calais hospital workers reach labor agreement, averting strike
A dispute over leadership and working conditions had led nurses, lab workers and other employees at Calais Regional Hospital to call a strike starting next Wednesday.
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During pandemic, Calais hospital workers call 2-day strike
A dispute over leadership and working conditions has led nurses, lab workers and other employees at Calais Regional Hospital to call a strike starting next Wednesday.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Hospitals compete for nurses as U.S. coronavirus cases surge
Adding to the strain, experienced nurses are ‘burned out with this whole (pandemic)’ and some are quitting, one nurse in Michigan reports.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Schools and Education
UMaine System retirees picket, plan legal action over benefits change
The Maine Education Association says changes to health insurance plans were made without consultation with unions and against signed contracts between the system and retired employees.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Hospitals and nursing homes need aid from the state
Other states have released federal funds to health care providers, but so far Maine has not.