Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people. He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2017
Maine jabs back at stubbornly high rate of whooping cough cases
Seventh-graders must have booster shots starting this year as Maine’s high incidence of ‘nasty’ pertussis persists.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2017
Updates: Former Mainers worried, scared as Irma hits Florida but ‘we have been through this a bunch of times’
Meanwhile, a Brunswick man helps run a Red Cross evacuation center east of Fort Myers.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2017
Sen. Collins says ‘dreamers’ should have a chance to stay in U.S.
Maine’s senior senator says she believes Congress will reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2017
Trump administration’s cuts to ACA outreach will damage enrollment efforts in Maine, experts say
Nonprofits in Maine are braced for a 40 percent cut in federal grants that help states get people signed up for insurance.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2017
Calais residents unnerved by loss of obstetrics unit at local hospital
Like many smaller, rural hospitals, the facility in Washington County has cut back on services in the face of mounting losses.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2017
Sen. Collins likely to be at center of Obamacare fixes
A key Senate committee that she serves on will be working on compromise plans.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2017
Advocates still working on regional effort to fight opioid crisis, receive funding
The Greater Portland Addiction Collaborative is seeking a Pay for Success award worth several million dollars to combat the growing opioid epidemic.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2017
More signs emerge that doctors are prescribing fewer opioids in Maine
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said opioid prescriptions written to its customers over a one-year period ending June 30 had declined 15 percent compared to the same period a year earlier.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2017
Federal officials to review audit critical of DHHS services to developmentally disabled Mainers
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which funds services for the disabled, could require the state to change the way it responds to reports of abuse and other critical incidents.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2017
Federal audit finds Maine failed to investigate deaths of developmentally disabled patients
The review shows the Department of Health and Human Services did not comply with federal requirements to report and monitor incidents involving abuse or deaths of disabled people in the care of community-based providers.
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