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PublishedDecember 13, 2020
Difficult ethical choices await Maine’s vaccine planners: Who goes first?
Hospital and nursing home administrators will pick the first vaccine recipients.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2020
With Biden in the White House, Maine could see major changes
The president-elect is already preparing to move forward with an ambitious policy agenda on the environment, health care, taxes, education and other issues.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2020
UMaine System, unions settle dispute over retirees’ health insurance
The deal affects about 3,000 retirees, who will now have the option of keeping a group health plan that would have been replaced by a health exchange system.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2020
Top MaineGeneral officials expect uptick in COVID cases because of holidays
MaineGeneral Health's chief executive officer, Chuck Hays, and Steve Diaz, the health system's chief medical officer, urge people to follow safety protocol and not to spend holidays with anyone they don't live with, except virtually.
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PublishedNovember 11, 2020
Calais hospital workers reach labor agreement, averting strike
A dispute over leadership and working conditions had led nurses, lab workers and other employees at Calais Regional Hospital to call a strike starting next Wednesday.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2020
During pandemic, Calais hospital workers call 2-day strike
A dispute over leadership and working conditions has led nurses, lab workers and other employees at Calais Regional Hospital to call a strike starting next Wednesday.
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PublishedNovember 2, 2020
Hospitals compete for nurses as U.S. coronavirus cases surge
Adding to the strain, experienced nurses are 'burned out with this whole (pandemic)' and some are quitting, one nurse in Michigan reports.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2020
UMaine System retirees picket, plan legal action over benefits change
The Maine Education Association says changes to health insurance plans were made without consultation with unions and against signed contracts between the system and retired employees.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2020
Maine’s Senate race: Health care divides candidates, remains a hot issue on the campaign trail
The four Maine contenders for U.S. Senate each have different takes on what's needed to improve America's health care system.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2020
New Maine veterans task force works to reduce suicide by firearms, medication
The Maine Safer Homes Taskforce will distribute information related to gun and medication safety, hoping to curtail the state's higher-than-average rate of death by suicide in veterans.
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