Rose Lundy

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Rose Lundy is a senior public health reporter for The Maine Monitor, with a focus on Maine’s aging care system. She is passionate about stories that highlight systemic problems affecting the most vulnerable in our community, and was named Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association in 2025.

Rose was previously a 2022 ProPublica Local Reporting Network fellow and a 2020 Report for America corps member. Before that, she was a reporter for three years at a daily newspaper in southwest Washington state. She now lives in Portland, Maine.

Her work has been recognized by the New England Newspaper & Press Association, Maine Public Health Association, National Newspaper Association Foundation, Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers and Maine Press Association.

Contact Rose via email with questions, concerns or story ideas: roMEMONse themainemonitor org

Contact Rose via Signal: 651-895-6775

Language(s) Spoken: English

a silhouetted man stands in front of a window.

‘Just dead ends’: Daughter said investigation into father’s care left her in the dark

Unable to feed or bathe himself, her father lived in squalor and developed a bone infection. How thorough was an investigation into his caregivers? The state declined to provide answers.

ByRose Lundy

June 5, 2026

5 facts about agency that investigates abuse and neglect of older Mainers

Questions and answers about Adult Protective Services and how it operates.

ByRose Lundy

June 5, 2026

Bangor public health director reflects on conditions that escalated HIV outbreak

Penobscot County has now logged 41 known cases of HIV, but there are likely more.

ByRose Lundy

May 8, 2026

A member of the military seen during a military funeral.

She buries the dead who have no one left to say goodbye

“It matters a great deal to me that people are not sent on the next journey alone,” Janie Sweeney said.

ByRose Lundy

May 4, 2026

The Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center campus in Bangor.

Northern Light Health’s bond rating improves to ‘stable’

The outlook revision on Thursday reflects improved financial performance.

ByRose Lundy

April 16, 2026

Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center seen from across the water.

The hospital at the center of Northern Light Health’s financial problems

The health system lost money four years in a row, and its flagship hospital lost money two of those years, leading to difficult questions about its future.

ByRose Lundy

April 15, 2026

Why Trump is now investigating Maine for requiring insurers to cover abortion

One legal scholar described the investigations into Maine and 12 other states as Trump “throwing a bone” to conservatives who want more abortion restrictions.

ByRose Lundy

March 26, 2026