Penobscot Community Health Care said a $2.8 million investment from Maine’s Rural Health Transformation Program lets it avoid imminent bankruptcy, as Maine Public reported.
More than a thousand immigrants in Maine began losing MaineCare under H.R. 1, Maine Morning Star reported. Refugees, asylees and trafficking survivors are excluded. Children under 21, pregnant people and green card holders keep coverage.
Maine's 20 community health centers expected a 2.5% MaineCare rate increase in July worth about $6.5 million, the Maine Primary Care Association said, including about $975,000 for Penobscot Community Health Care…
The City of Bangor stopped Penobscot Community Health Care's planned sale of its administrative building at 103 Maine Avenue to Northeast Pain Management days before the deal was set to close…
In a letter sent September 1 to Gov. Janet Mills, the Attorney General's Office and the Department of Health and Human Services, a bipartisan group of 100 Maine lawmakers asked for a one-time capital investment of $3 million to $6 million through the Rural…
Penobscot Community Health Care, which WABI describes as "Maine's largest federally qualified health organization" and which serves roughly 50,000 patients, said in late August it "needed an infusion of $3 million within 30 to 60 days to avoid bankruptcy."
Maine Senate Republicans wrote the Mills administration asking it to "take immediate action to help Penobscot Community Health Care and other federally qualified health centers facing significant financial issues," and specifically urged DHHS "to dedicate a…
Maine's Healthcare Careers Exploration Program accepted applications through August 4, 2026 at 4 p.m. For up to four awards totaling $500,000, with a maximum of $125,000 per award.
Hometown Health Center says its new facility at 55 Fletcher Drive in Palmyra officially opened March 23, 2026, with medical and behavioral-health services.
A February 3 announcement from Senator Susan Collins's office says the signed FY2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill includes $8.9 million in congressionally directed spending for the Pines Health Services Relocation project in Caribou.
In a newsletter published June 2, Greater Portland Health said its Public Housing team celebrated the opening of a new clinic at the Community Center at 21 Popham Street during the Portland Housing Authority open house on May 27.
A live Health Access Network posting dated March 25 advertises a full-time MD or DO family-medicine position in Lincoln with a 40-hour weekly schedule.
HealthReach Community Health Centers reported that Stacy Dill, FNP, joined Madison Area Health Center in March 2026, joining recently welcomed nurse practitioners Luigi Santilli and Heather Stevens.
Directory-listed Katahdin Valley Health Center says Open Access Walk-In Care is available seven days a week at its Houlton and Dover-Foxcroft clinics and on Thursdays at its Ashland and Brownville clinics.
Penobscot Community Health Care, whose directory legal identity is Penobscot Community Health Center, reported that four nurse-practitioner residents completed its program in 2024 and two chose to continue their careers at PCHC.
Directory-listed Sacopee Valley Health Center posts no-appointment walk-in care at 202 Maple Street in Cornish for same-day needs that are not emergencies.
Central Maine Healthcare said 572 employees had left and 400 had been hired since Prime Healthcare Foundation acquired the system on February 15, leaving a workforce of 2,748.
Maine DHHS plans to invest approximately $30 million of Year 1 Rural Health Transformation Program funding in electronic-medical-record replacement, upgrades and connectivity.
MaineCare reminded providers that anyone delivering telehealth must be enrolled with MaineCare and appropriately licensed, accredited, certified or registered in the state where the member is located during the service.
Maine DHHS estimated 31,000 or more first-year disenrollments among approximately 90,000 expansion adults subject to the work-and-community-engagement rule effective December 31, 2026.
The stand-alone LD 1018 died on adjournment, but substantially similar protections became law in Part P of Public Law 2025, chapter 388 and took effect September 24, 2025.
Maine Hospital Association president Steven Michaud said about 40% of the state's hospitals were losing money, and a 2025 PYA report for the association found 76% had medium-to-high risk of severe near-term financial problems.
On February 10, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine granted the parties' joint motion and vacated the original and corrected 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program notices plus the manufacturer approvals announced from October 30 through November 14…
Maine Family Planning announced that primary-care services at its Houlton, Ellsworth and Presque Isle locations would end October 31, 2025 after a federal law barred certain providers from billing Medicaid.
An April 13 MaineCare bulletin announced temporary payment holds for the May 13 through June 30 cycles because supplemental funding enacted in Public Law 2025, chapter 650 was not available until the next fiscal year.
Maine DHHS said it planned to hire 35 workers and spend $8 million in the first year, then $5.5 million annually, to administer the federal 80-hour-per-month work and community-engagement rule beginning in January 2027.
A January 2026 HHS Office of Inspector General audit found at least $45.6 million in improper MaineCare payments for rehabilitative and community-support services for children diagnosed with autism and recommended repayment of the $28.7 million federal share.
After Gateway Community Services requested an informal review, Maine DHHS upheld the December suspension of its MaineCare payments, saying the evidence supported a credible allegation of fraud.
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