Maine Voices: A healthy respect for health care system pay equity

Health care

Published
March 7, 2023

Maine Voices: A healthy respect for health care system pay equity

If MaineHealth and Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems paid their highest non-physician earners $500,000, tops, each would have over $2 million to raise entry-level or ‘less-skilled’ workers’ wages.
Published
March 5, 2023

With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals

A lack of beds and staffing at assisted living facilities and nursing homes creates an unwelcome situation that benefits neither the languishing patients nor the hospitals shouldering their care.
Published
March 2, 2023

Owner of New England addiction clinics faces health care fraud charges

Recovery Connection Centers of America provided little or no services while billing Medicare and other insurers as if they had, authorities said.
Published
March 1, 2023

States move to crack down on nurses with bogus diplomas

States are acting in the wake of Operation Nightingale, a federal investigation into what officials say was a wire fraud scheme in which several now-closed Florida nursing schools sold phony nursing diplomas and transcripts from 2016 to 2022.
Published
February 21, 2023

Waterville’s Inland Hospital to partner on ‘immersive learning’ center that simulates health care conditions

Purdue Global School of Nursing is partnering with Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville to build the innovative learning center next to the hospital.

Published
January 10, 2023

Maine Voices: My patients need paid family and medical leave – and so do you

The current system of unpaid leave is damaging and stressful for both the patients seeking care and the people responsible for providing that care.
Published
December 27, 2022

More than a dozen central Maine projects receive funding in federal budget

The federal budget, approved by Congress last week and expected to go to President Joe Biden for his signature this week, includes funding for local projects ranging from the Colonial Theater in Augusta to a fire station in North Anson.
Published
December 16, 2022

Flu cases, hospitalizations surpass prepandemic levels

Even if clinicians and public health experts had expected to see a surge in cases this season, flu and other respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19, are still flooding emergency departments, urgent cares and primary care physicians’ offices with sick patients.
Published
December 14, 2022

Health care networks, universities to receive $2.3 million in funding to expand rural education opportunities

Collaborative groups of health care networks, the University of Maine System and St. Joseph's College will receive a combined total of nearly $2.3 million to expand medical training in communities like Farmington, Norway, Bridgton and Blue Hill.
Published
December 12, 2022

Nursing home services may be consolidated at new, higher-cost facility in Damariscotta

Clippership Landing could help LincolnHealth stem years of financial losses at two existing long-term care sites. But the project comes with trade-offs, too.