Maine

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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 rural Maine nursing homes announced their pending closures this week, all of them citing staffing challenges and the ongoing pandemic.

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.