The Health Monitor newsletter is a biweekly look by The Maine Monitor at the politics and people shaping health care in Maine. The newsletter is delivered by email every other Friday and the story portion of each edition is archived below.
Maine group revives push for universal health care ballot initiative
Advocates are hoping to gather enough signatures to get a question about publicly funded health care on the November 2027 ballot.
‘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.
Angus King questions VA budget request
In Maine, the VA health system lost 258 full-time workers and made 111 new hires last year, a net loss of 57 percent, according to a Maine Monitor analysis of federal workforce data.
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.
Uptake of Maine’s new red flag law has been slow. But advocates aren’t worried
Just four red flag orders have been filed since the law went into effect on Feb. 21, while law enforcement has completed 86 yellow flag orders.
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