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East Coast's first dental therapist will practice at Penobscot Community Health
March 16, 2021The dental therapist position is the first on the East Coast, and allows practitioners to perform some duties previously reserved for dentists, opening up access to rural parts of the state, which suffer from lack of adequate dental care.
March 16, 2021
UMA to offer graduate certificate in emergency management
Updated: March 16, 2021A new online program set to start this fall will be Maine's first in the interdisciplinary field of emergency management, and the country’s only emergency management graduate program that is "trauma-informed," UMA says.
Updated: March 16, 2021
New England Cancer Specialists will anchor Rock Row medical campus in Westbrook
March 10, 2021Waterstone Properties, Rock Row's owner and developer, says that the Scarborough-based practice's move of its flagship location to the Westbrook site is one of the development's "most significant achievements."
March 10, 2021
Companies are setting DEI goals and changing their cultures, one step at a time
Updated: March 8, 2021Conversations about sexual orientation, race and religion may seem out of place at a corporation, but talking about those issues is exactly what needs to happen to change a culture and embrace diversity.
Updated: March 8, 2021
Larger Springvale occupational therapy practice to fill big need
March 7, 2021Licensed occupational therapist Valerie Grondin opened her practice a year ago, after 13 years with Southern Maine Health Care, and soon outgrew her leased space. “Our schools are overwhelmed,” she said.
March 7, 2021
UMaine System will offer paid time off to get vaccinated
March 5, 2021The UMaine System does not require the vaccinations, but encourages employees to get them under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “Emergency Use Authorization” status.
March 5, 20212 rural Maine hospitals named among the country's top 100
March 4, 2021Besides the Maine recipients, only one New England facility made the list, based on an analysis by the Portland-based Chartis Center for Rural Health. The accolade follows a national honor for five of Maine's rural hospitals in December.
March 4, 2021
Seeing things: Growing cluster of imaging manufacturers is integral to pandemic response
Updated: March 8, 2021Like their products, these Maine makers are sometimes overlooked amid manufacturing's response to the pandemic. But watch carefully, and you'll see the difference they're making — and the growing role the industry plays in others.
Updated: March 8, 2021
Factories to meet pandemic needs: Puritan Medical, other Maine businesses turn out swab plants
Updated: March 8, 2021When the pandemic struck, the White House called on Guilford-based Puritan Medical Products to ramp up manufacturing of the swabs used to detect COVID-19. But first the company and two other Maine businesses had to manufacture more production space.
Updated: March 8, 2021
Maine co-launches international hackathon to help rural regions recover from pandemic
Updated: March 4, 2021The virtual forum invites participants from Maine and across the North Atlantic to identify digital solutions to deliver essential health care services and create a recovery plan for the tourism industry, with a focus on rural communities.
Updated: March 4, 2021
Seacoast Mission brings first COVID-19 vaccination clinics to Maine islands
Updated: March 1, 2021The nonprofit is working closely with communities for accurate head counts and to figure out trip rotations, to avoid both vaccine shortages and oversupply.
Updated: March 1, 2021
Covetrus reports 2020 sales up 9%, shrinking loss
Updated: March 1, 2021Net sales for the fourth quarter of 2020 grew 11% year-over-year, and the Portland-based animal-health company reiterated its earnings guidance for 2021. Covetrus also said it has added a chief consumer officer and a North American chief veterinary
Updated: March 1, 2021
MaineHealth gets $12.8M grant to study rural health disparities
Updated: February 18, 2021MaineHealth said it will use the funding to develop a statewide research and care network in Maine that addresses barriers associated with limited resources, expertise and access in rural areas, and will begin with the support of four clinical
Updated: February 18, 2021
WEX to acquire HSA assets for $250M 'to better leverage investments'
February 12, 2021"This asset purchase expands WEX’s role in the attractive consumer-directed health care ecosystem and aligns with our growth strategy,” said Robert Deshaies, president of WEX’s Health division
February 12, 2021Mills criticizes MaineHealth for staff vaccination policy
February 10, 2021Maine's largest health care system began vaccinating employees against COVID-19 according to a schedule that allowed some to receive the vaccine earlier than allowed under state rules, Gov. Janet Mills says.
February 10, 2021
Arenas in Portland, Bangor still poised to see action as field hospitals
February 10, 2021Plans in place since nearly the start of the pandemic call for venues in both cities to serve as makeshift COVID-19 field hospitals. That hasn't been necessary, but officials are preparing, just in case.
February 10, 2021
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