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Category: Health and Human Services

Another View: Harmon column did not reflect the reality of state assistance

Posted: November 01, 2013

Making people look for jobs that may not exist doesn’t make the state’s safety net programs more efficient. By State Sen. Anne Haskell,...

SENATOR LACHOWICZ APPOINTED TO FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

Posted: October 11, 2013

Committee will oversee mental health services provided to forensic patients, and expansion of prison mental health unit AUGUSTA – Senator Colleen...

OFFER TO EXPAND HEALTH CARE TO THOUSANDS GETS GREEN LIGHT FROM COMMITTEE

Posted: May 30, 2013

Accepting federal health care dollars will insure up to 70,000 low-income and working Mainers AUGUSTA—This afternoon the Legislature’s health...

MEASURE CREATING CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED BY COMMITTEE

Posted: May 02, 2013

MEASURE CREATING CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED BY COMMITTEE Measure will simplify process for reporting child sexual abuse and helping...

BDN/Sun Journal: Bill creates registration process for those handling body parts

Posted: February 04, 2013

By Scott Thistle Read more here AUGUSTA, Maine — You may think you know where your soul is going when you die but what happens to your body is...

Democrats say LePage must take responsibility for $4.8 million compliance error

Posted: September 27, 2012

Letter from USDA to Maine DHHS AUGUSTA—Top Democratic lawmakers released a statement after learning that another error by Maine’s Department of...

State Employee Health Commission Puts Carey Medical Center and Northern Maine Medical Center Back on List of Preferred Hospitals

Posted: September 13, 2012

AUGUSTA – Good news for state employees and their families in Aroostook County. Cary Medical Center in Caribou and Northern Maine Medical Center...

Feds still mulling LePage's Medicaid waiver request

Posted: August 31, 2012

Gov. LePage would like to tighten eligibility requirements and remove 24,000 low-income parents and 1,800 elderly people from the program. Source:...

MPBN: Maine Democrats Challenge Medicaid Cut Plan

Posted: August 18, 2012

MPBN In a letter to federal officials, two Democratic Maine lawmakers dispute Gov. Paul LePage's claims that the cuts were needed to forestall a...

PPH | Dems push back on LePage's proposed Medicaid cuts

Posted: August 16, 2012

They say not only are the cuts illegal, but Maine finished FY 2012 with a $20 million surplus, so the cuts are unnecessary. By John...