Outbreaks at a meat plant, a rehab facility and a homeless shelter may account for the increases, as it’s too early to see any effects of loosened restrictions.
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Numbers of virus patients in Maine hospitals continue to flatten and decline
Restricting activity in the state has flattened the COVID-19 curve and taken the pressure off hospitals, a Press Herald analysis finds, but dangers remain.
Maine medical specialist says warmer weather doesn’t mean virus will be killed
In a Wednesday afternoon briefing, Northern Light Health announced that its own laboratories had processed more than 3,700 tests for coronavirus.
Northern Light Health offers voluntary furloughs, but will not lay off workers
Many employees have been reassigned to other jobs within the health care system as elective procedures and appointments have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As health care shifts, so do health care employees
Primary care doctors are leaving their offices to work in hospitals and nurses are staffing screening tents as the entire industry adapts to the coronavirus.
John Dalton, president of Northern Light Inland Hospital, to retire
Terri Vieira, president of Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield and Northern Light C.A. Dean Hospital in Greenville, will replace Dalton.
State grants approval for Mayo Regional, Northern Light integration
The Certificate of Need approval is a key step in the two organizations’ integration plans.
Michelle Hood stepping down as CEO of Northern Light Health
She is taking a job as COO of the American Hospital Association, a national trade association, after nearly 14 years at the helm of Maine’s second largest health care system.