SANFORD, Maine — Southern Maine Health Care will end overnight hospital care in Sanford due to low patient volume.
The Portland Press Herald reports the state's fifth largest health care system is reorganizing its services and plans to eliminate about a dozen positions.
Officials say it will keep its 24-hour emergency center in the former Goodall Hospital in Sanford and add a walk-in care center. It will also open a new cancer care practice with more specialists.
Southern Maine Health Care CEO Ed McGeachey says many of the staff who lose jobs — estimated at 13 — will be offered positions over the next six weeks.
Sanford patients needing overnight inpatient care will be sent to the Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford starting Oct. 23.