GoFundMe says campaigns for medical care are increasing and are among the most numerous on its site.
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What you need to know about the 5 questions on the Nov. 6 Maine ballot
Question 1 would increase taxes to pay for home health care workers; the others are bond issues.
Mercy says it’s raised more than half of the $20 million it needs for a new hospital
The Portland hospital aims to move from its longtime location on State Street to a site on the Fore River Parkway where it already has a 151,000-square-foot building.
Maine Voices: Church of Safe Injection treats drug users as Jesus would have done
He would have offered them sterile syringes, naloxone and nonjudgmental support.
Augusta’s Riverview Psychiatric Center on track for recertification
The facility’s certification was revoked in 2014, costing the state hospital about $20 million in federal reimbursement money annually.
CVS-Aetna deal OK’d by antitrust watchdog
The $68 billion marriage of insurer and drugstore chain won’t harm consumers, the Justice division concludes, with one caveat.
Starbucks gives workers backup care benefits
The coffee giant will subsidize care for children and adults, which will cost employees $1 per hour.
Maine schools, hospitals consider creative tactics to recruit nurses
Shortages are felt in other health care categories, too.
Aetna sale clears the way for CVS Health takeover
The health insurer is selling its Medicare prescription drug business.
Collins’ bills to ban pharmacy ‘gag clauses’ pass House and Senate
President Trump, who has supports the bills and is expected to sign them, said ‘Americans deserve to know the lowest drug price at their pharmacy.’