After months of waiting, vaccines starting to reach homebound Mainers sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A state board has recommended rejecting Central Maine Healthcare’s request to build a $14 million ambulatory surgical center in Topsham.
Central Maine Healthcare has not demonstrated the economic feasibility or the public need for the center, according to a March 5 analysis by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services Division of Licensing and Certification.
The review also found that Central Maine Healthcare couldn’t prove that the center wouldn’t have a negative impact on the quality of care by existing service providers in the Midcoast.
Healthcare providers must obtain a state certificate of need to build new health care facilities, expand existing facilities or make other major changes to the health care landscape. That requirement is intended to control health care costs by restricting the duplication of services.
Outreach efforts target vaccine access and reluctance in Maine s immigrant population sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
State says people in jails and prisons will have to keep waiting for vaccines
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, does not know when the state will start offering shots to incarcerated people because doses are ‘at a premium.’
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The state still does not have a plan to vaccinate people in jails and prisons, including those who are eligible right now based on their age.
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that he does not know when the state will start offering shots to incarcerated people because doses are “at a premium.”
State says people in jails and prisons will have to keep waiting for vaccines centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.