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PublishedApril 16, 2025
Waterville council, former mayor grill hospital officials about impending closure
Two officials of Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville answered questions Tuesday from city councilors and a former mayor about the reasons why the hospital is closing and how its patients and employees will be affected.
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PublishedApril 14, 2025
Maine health care providers clash with pharmaceutical industry over discount drug program
A Maine bill would prevent pharmaceutical companies from restricting use of a federal discount program that save millions of dollars for hospitals and other providers.
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PublishedApril 9, 2025
Maine’s hospitals are in dire financial shape, report says
The state's major hospitals rank near the bottom among 50 states in 3 metrics — operating margin, debt burden and age of facilities — according to an analysis done for the Maine Hospital Association.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2025
Northern Light Health announces plan to move several outpatient services to Waterville
The services are to be relocated over the next several months to the Inland Hospital campus on Kennedy Memorial Drive, officials said.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2025
Maine hospitals sound alarm about proposed cuts in Gov. Mills’ budget
The reimbursement rate cutbacks would amount to about a 36% cut in Medicaid payments to some doctors, according to hospital operators.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2024
Northern Light food service, housekeeping jobs to transfer to another company
About 500 positions in food service and housekeeping at Northern Light acute care facilities, including Inland Hospital and Lakewood Continuing Care in Waterville, will be taken over by Compass One starting in January, according to a Northern Light official.
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PublishedOctober 17, 2024
President of Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville resigns
Tricia Costigan, president of Northern Light Inland Hospital and Northern Light Continuing Care — Lakewood in Waterville, has resigned from her position, effective immediately.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2024
Northern Light Health cuts costs as Maine hospitals face workforce, financial pressures
The state's second-largest health care system operated at a deficit the past two years and expects to do so again in 2024.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2024
Northern Light Health computer servers compromised, but patient data not at risk, health care system says
Though none of the affected servers contained patient information, Northern Light said it decided to temporarily take those records offline 'out of an abundance of caution.'
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2024
National advocacy group blames hospital consolidation for Maine’s high health care costs
Hospitals contend other factors – such as Maine being the oldest state – are driving up costs in the state.
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