New enrollees alone in the first month total 14,091, which should help the state further reduce its number of uninsured, estimated at 145,000.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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Maine bill seeks to halt surge in vaccination avoidance
With the state fifth in the nation in parental opt-outs, a legislator wants to make the process harder, but one critic says the plan goes too far.
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Opening of urgent care clinic adds to Maine trend
ClearChoiceMD of Scarborough, which is not hospital-affiliated, is part of a national boom offering quicker and often cheaper treatment than emergency rooms.
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Redefining care saves federal money, earns MaineHealth a $9.2 million windfall
Medicare compensates the parent of Maine Medical Center for efficiencies as the health care system moves toward rewarding prevention and patients’ outcomes.
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For hard-to-manage mentally ill, nowhere to go but jail?
A Riverview patient’s incarceration spotlights Maine’s struggle to house those charged with violent behavior.
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Affordable Care Act swelling ranks of self-employed, report says
Mainers tethered to jobs for insurance reasons discover that the government program’s lower costs can be a springboard to long-held dreams.
Posted inHealth, News
Maine back at its lowest point – 20th – in ‘healthiest state’ rankings
The slide from 16th last year is blamed in part on fewer immunizations and more infant mortality.
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Lyme disease digging in as Maine mounts fight against it
A new research lab will help with treatment, and public education efforts have intensified, but cases of the debilitating illness may fall just short of a state record this year.
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Preble Street lauded for nonprofit works
A national rating agency, Charity Navigator, says the Portland organization is the best among 43 of the Maine nonprofits it studied.
Posted inLife & Culture, Local & State, News
Longtime Monhegan Island artist Elena Louise Jahn dies at age 76
The artist died Wednesday at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick of complications from scleroderma.