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Maine joins growing list of states protecting healthcare providers from bans
Maine Morning Star via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoMaine will have a “shield law” that protects the state’s health professionals who provide...
Maine reaches a milestone for school-required vaccinations
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoApr. 23—Maine has reached "herd immunity" for school-required vaccination coverage for the first time since 2011, driven by a law that went into effect in 2021 that eliminated ...
Proposal for separate child welfare department dies after Maine House fails to take action
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoApr. 23—A proposal to create a standalone department to oversee child welfare in Maine died in the Legislature after the House of Representatives ...
Maine Recovery Council close to distributing 1st $9M
Bangor Daily News· 9 hours agoIn emergency departments, for example, the interventions include starting patients who have an opioid use disorder on buprenorphine...
Vaccination of Maine school children hits record high
Bangor Daily News· 5 hours agoOver 95 percent of children attending public and private schools in Maine have received the required...
Community health workers gather to share resources, press for sustainable funding
WCSH 6 Portland· 26 minutes agoCommunity health workers come in all shapes and sizes: helping people with anything from food to ...
Gov. Mills vetoes 3 bills, including measure to set minimum wage for farmworkers
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoApr. 23—Gov. Janet Mills vetoed three bills on Tuesday, including measures that would have set a minimum wage for farmworkers in Maine and allow them to ...
3-year-old fell from 3rd-floor window in Lewiston
Bangor Daily News· 11 hours agoThe boy’s parents called 911 about 2 p.m. Saturday when they realized their son had fallen from a window of their Pierce Street apartment, according to...
Despite failure of patient ratio bill, Maine nurses union celebrates progress in staffing fight
Maine Morning Star via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe Maine Legislature adjourned last week without taking action on a bill that would have created...
Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Many expectations of the child welfare system largely miss the point
The Lewiston Sun Journal· 3 days agoTechnically, the Department of Health and Human Services and