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Higher staffing requirements removed from assisted living bill
The initial proposed regulations would have doubled the number of direct care workers at residential care facilities overnight.
Housing, low reimbursement, aging population driving Maine’s health care crisis
“This system is broken. It's not working for anyone.”
May ‘radio hour’ discusses child welfare, health care
The show offers a behind-the-scenes look at recent Maine Monitor reporting.
As Maine diversifies, so does its health care workforce
The number of workers in health care in Maine identifying as non-White is up 143 percent in the past decade.
Widespread support for bill to pause private equity hospital ownership
A watchdog group found that 8.5 percent of private hospitals and 22.6 percent of for-profit hospitals in the U.S. are owned by private equity.
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