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MaineHealth Moving Forward With Board Merger

A plan by the parent company of Maine Medical Center and 10 other community hospitals to merge its member organizations into one unified entity is moving forward.

MaineHealth says the boards of nine of the 10 members that make up the system have decided it’s time to engage their communities about unifying under a single board of trustees with a combined financial structure. Regulatory processes specific to New Hampshire have delayed a vote by a member hospital in that state.

In a press release, MaineHealth says the inability to deploy resources across the system has become a significant problem for MaineHealth’s community hospitals in recent years. They are said to be under increasing financial pressure because of changes in the way health care is being delivered.

The organization says the proposal under discussion would leave in place local boards that would retain significant responsibility for hospital services and other care delivered in local communities.

Ed Morin
Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.