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Covetrus CEO Benjamin Shaw resigns
October 22, 2019Less than a month after he and the animal-health products company he led were sued over securities fraud allegations, the president and CEO of Portland-based Covetrus Inc. has resigned.
October 22, 2019
Central Maine Healthcare CFO Whitlock goes from interim to permanent
October 22, 2019John Whitlock has been interim CFO since June, and with the Lewiston-based health care system as vice president of finance since June 2018.
October 22, 2019Maine shares in Johnson & Johnson medical device settlement
October 21, 2019In a consent agreement involving dozens of states, the company agreed to pay $116.9 million to settle a suit charging deceptive marketing practices.
October 21, 2019
Three Maine hospitals now perform cutting-edge heart procedure
Updated: October 18, 2019Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute, at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, becomes the third in the state to add a diagnostic tool that captures highly detailed images of heart tissue, potentially leading to better diagnoses.
Updated: October 18, 2019
Life sciences one of state's fast-growing industries, report says
October 17, 2019Job growth and wages in the industry, which includes biosciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and more, far outpace state averages, according to the first report on the topic released in a decade.
October 17, 2019
Biotech startup relocating from Mass. to Biddeford
Updated: October 17, 2019Prapela Inc., a biotechnology company creating a medical device for infant health, is moving its development and commercialization work from Concord, Mass., to the Pepperell Mill Campus in Biddeford — and could be hiring there.
Updated: October 17, 2019
Southern Maine Health Care kicks off $34M expansion in Sanford
October 8, 2019Southern Maine Health Care today will kick off a $34 million expansion of its Sanford Medical Center, where a new senior care facility, a new behavioral health care unit and campus upgrades are planned.
October 8, 2019After opposing Purdue settlement, Maine makes another legal objection
October 7, 2019While the $10 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma for its role in the national opioid crisis has made headlines in recent weeks, Maine and 23 other states are now objecting to a request the company has made with its federal bankruptcy trustee.
October 7, 2019
MaineHealth, Anthem launch Medicare health plans
October 1, 2019Six weeks after announcing they had formed a joint venture to provide health coverage for seniors, MaineHealth and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield have introduced their first insurance plans.
October 1, 2019
Grand Rounds to double space in Lewiston, add employees this year
October 1, 2019San Francisco-based digital health care firm Grand Rounds on Tuesday announced plans to double its space in Lewiston's Bates Mill No. 1 Complex, and is on track to have over 200 employees there by year's end.
October 1, 2019State gets $750K grant for marketing expanded MaineCare, ACA market
September 30, 2019Maine will receive $750,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to fund outreach and enrollment assistance for residents seeking Medicaid or other health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
September 30, 2019
MaineHealth launches cancer care practice for southern Maine
Updated: September 27, 2019MaineHealth launched an expanded, integrated medical practice serving cancer patients in southern Maine. MaineHealth Cancer Care is based in Biddeford, Sanford and South Portland.
Updated: September 27, 2019-
Maine Med awarded $1.9M grant for heart disease research
September 24, 2019Maine Medical Center, the Portland flagship hospital of MaineHealth, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how stem cells may help reverse heart failure.
September 24, 2019 
Central Maine Healthcare to open second urgent-care clinic, in Lewiston
September 19, 2019The first CMH urgent care clinic opened in Topsham last year, and the health care system plans more across the state.
September 19, 2019
Calais Regional Hospital files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
September 18, 2019Calais Regional Hospital — with over 275 workers the largest employer in the Washington County city of 3,100 — on Tuesday filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Bangor federal court.
September 18, 2019
250-unit Augusta 'medical workforce' development gets initial approval
September 17, 2019A site plan for 250 units of "medical workforce" housing in Augusta — one of three similar proposals in the state by a Massachusetts developer — got initial approval from the city's planning board last week.
September 17, 2019
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