Feds extend COVID-19 Public Health Emergency another 90 days … New online index ranks states on direct care workforce policy supports … Rural Maine nursing home applies for new license amid ongoing...
Also in the News for Friday, Sept. 2
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 02, 2022
Give us $700,000 and we’ll stay open, remote, private nursing home tells surrounding towns … Union representing 12,000 Veterans Affairs nurses plans protests amid shortages, stalled contract talks...
Also in the News for Monday, Aug. 29
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 29, 2022
New York codifies right of nursing home residents’ estates to sue for damages … Medicare Advantage enrollment hits 28 million, approaching half the total Medicare population … Petition circulates...
Isolated Maine nursing home gets extra year to attract workers — or a buyer
By
John Hall
Aug 05, 2022
Operators of a remote, shuttered Maine nursing home hope a license extension will be just what the doctor ordered to give the struggling facility time to replace staff and reopen for business.
Supreme Court won’t review healthcare workers’ challenge to Maine vaccine mandate
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 23, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear arguments in a lawsuit that would allow healthcare workers to apply for religious exemptions to Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Yet another important reminder we’re all in this together
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 03, 2021
While our lingering pandemic drama may sadly still be relatively young, facilities’ teetering financial worries are a bit more complex than face value. The long-term care problems in Maine and many other...
LTC nurses who remain on the job are burned out, concerned for residents: news report
Oct 25, 2021
Staff shortages and work overload are taking a heavy toll, long-term care nurses and clinical administrators tell a news outlet in Maine. “We’re trying to make things work as best we can, but...
Local vaccine mandates adding punishing pressure
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 14, 2021
Philadelphia is among several cities and states to adopt their own mandates ahead of federal rule for healthcare workers that is expected later this month. Fast-approaching deadlines may trigger an avalanche...
Three Maine nursing homes to close for good after ‘exhausting every staffing resource’
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 03, 2021
Three rural Maine nursing homes announced their pending closures this week, all of them citing staffing challenges and the ongoing pandemic.
Maine governor ignores voters’ ballots and will not expand Medicaid
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2018
Six months after Maine voters opted to expand the state Medicaid program through a ballot initiative, Gov. Paul LePage (R) is refusing to enact more coverage.