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Kennebec Behavioral Health gets $3.4M federal grant to expand, integrate services
August 4, 2021The money aims to help a number of mid-Maine health organizations to become a “one-stop shop” for mental health, substance use treatment and other health care services in their communities.
August 4, 2021
MaineHealth workers will have to receive COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 1
August 4, 2021The growing call for employee vaccinations is especially loud among health care providers, and now Maine's two largest health care systems are mandating inoculations for their workers.
August 4, 2021
UNE gets $150K to boost diversity in pharmacy workforce
Updated: August 4, 2021A $75,000 grant from Covetrus Inc. will support scholarships and research, while $75,000 from Hannaford Supermarkets will support scholarships at Maine's largest educator of health professionals.
Updated: August 4, 2021
Northern Light Health will require workers to get COVID-19 vaccine
August 3, 2021The state's second-largest health care system said vaccines will be mandatory within six weeks after any of the current medications gets full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
August 3, 2021
IDEXX reports Q2 growth in revenue, earnings, and raises guidance
July 30, 2021The Westbrook-based maker of veterinary diagnostic tools, practice software and water microbiology tests said earnings per share grew by 36%. Much of the increase was driven by IDEXX's Companion Animals Group.
July 30, 2021
Portland-based MedRhythms gets $25M in latest venture funding round
July 29, 2021Since launching six years ago, the digital health therapeutics company has now raised $34 million in private financing, is actively hiring and is expanding its product pipeline.
July 29, 2021
US News ranks the best hospitals in Maine, and nationwide
July 28, 2021Maine health care institutions received generally high marks in the annual report card on the country's best hospitals. But the state's top ranker received a lower-than-average score in a new grading.
July 28, 2021
Covetrus names new chief accounting officer to succeed Laura Phillips
July 23, 2021Drew Coxhead will take over duties held by Phillips, who is retiring from the Portland-based animal-health company next month.
July 23, 2021
MaineHealth will hike wages for at least 18,000 employees across its system
July 22, 2021The new minimum wage will increase from $14 an hour to $17, beginning Aug. 8. The health care system expects to pay a total of $61 million to make the raise and other compensation changes.
July 22, 2021
Two Lewiston men sentenced to pay $2.4M for defrauding MaineCare
July 20, 2021Over a three-year period, the pair conspired with several mental health counseling services in the Lewiston-Auburn area to defraud the state's Medicaid health benefits program.
July 20, 2021
UMaine System to require COVID-19 arrival testing, offer scholarships to vaccinated students
Updated: July 19, 2021Students and employees who verify their fully vaccinated status by Aug. 20 will be exempt from the arrival testing and quarantine requirements, while those who are unvaccinated will be required to quarantine.
Updated: July 19, 2021
After shutdowns at other COVID-19 vaccine clinics, Portland International Jetport opens one
July 16, 2021The new vaccine clinic launches after most of the state's mass vaccination sites have closed, and is now offering the lifesaving medication seven days a week, with no appointment needed.
July 16, 2021
Medicare health plan looks to hire up to 50 in New Gloucester
July 15, 2021Devoted Health saw its workforce at Pineland Farms double from 40 during 2020. Now the Massachusetts-based health plan is looking to hire another 40 or 50 employees in Maine.
July 15, 2021
Maine will settle with Purdue Pharma, Sacklers for $20M, but is that enough?
Updated: July 14, 2021The settlement by Maine and 14 other states with the manufacturer of prescription opioid OxyContin would divvy up billions of dollars. But Maine has paid an especially high price as a result of the opioid epidemic.
Updated: July 14, 2021
Wilderness medicine business that trains for difficult environments changes hands
July 11, 2021Instructors provide medical training for challenging and remote environments around the world. The seller was with the company nearly 40 years. The buyer is an outdoors educator, EMT and search-and-rescue volunteer.
July 11, 2021
180 workers at Puritan Medical on furlough as COVID-19 test demand declines
July 9, 2021Furloughs were due to expire July 12, but the test-swab manufacturer has extended them another three weeks. Like Abbott Labs, another company manufacturing COVID diagnostics in Maine, Puritan has been responding to change in testing needs.
July 9, 2021
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