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PublishedFebruary 8, 2023
CVS spends $10.6 billion to buy Oak Street Health
The rapid expansion in value-based care is an approach to medicine that is growing popular with bill payers like Medicare.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2023
More information needed on legality, feasibility of bill that would repeal recovery residence exemption in fire code, lawmakers say
A bill before the Legislature could reclassify recovery residences and force some to close, worsening an already difficult housing situation in the state, some lawmakers fear.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2023
Fentanyl, the fast-acting and incredibly lethal opioid, killed more than 500 Mainers last year
Fentanyl is sometimes referred to as the "instant death," an official from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2023
Rumford Hospital is ending its maternity services
Maternity services at the 25-bed critical access hospital in Oxford County will end March 31, Central Maine Healthcare officials announced Thursday.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2023
Lewiston High School, Bates College students help launch domestic abuse awareness campaign
Lewiston High School and Bates College students helped launch Finding Our Voices' second annual poster campaign raising awareness of intimate partner violence.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2023
President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
The Biden administration had previously considered ending the emergency last year, but held off amid concerns about a potential 'winter surge' in cases.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2023
Bill seeking to repeal fire code exemption for recovery residences would be devastating, opponents say
The fallout from a bill that would repeal an exemption in fire code regulations and require recovery residences to install sprinkler systems would be devastating for Maine’s recovery community, operators and advocates told lawmakers at a public hearing Monday.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2023
Gov. Mills nominates director of new health care agency
Meg Garratt-Reed has been nominated to be executive director of the Office of Affordable Health Care.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2023
Number of Mainers who died from a drug overdose last year outpaced record set in 2021
Significantly impacting fatal overdoses is the introduction of xylazine and nonpharmaceutical tramadol. Both drugs showed up on toxicology reports for the first time in 2021, almost always in combination with fentanyl.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2023
Bill would extend MaineCare health coverage to all low-income noncitizens
House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross submitted a similar bill last session, but it did not advance out of committee after Gov. Janet Mills funded a smaller expansion, limited to noncitizens who are pregnant or under the age of 21.
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