St. Mary's Hospital

The Lewiston hospital sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in January, after the agency withheld Medicare and other payments because St. Mary's failed to file timely reports on its use of $5.6 million in pandemic relief funds.

In the complaint, St Mary's acknowledges that it failed to submit two reports on its use of pandemic funding on time because of a change in personnel.

A spokesperson for St. Mary's says on average, the ICU only cares for one patient a day and it doesn't make sense to duplicate services that other hospitals nearby provide.

The hospital is ending a joint venture with MaineHealth to provide oncology care, providers will relocate to Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick.

Health system officials say both St. Mary’s and Lewiston's other hospital, Central Maine Medical Center, had a combined total of 1,044 births in 2021, compared to previous years when each hospital regularly had over 1,000 annual births.

Two Lewiston hospitals have undertaken corrective action after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid found they were turning away mentally ill patients in…

LEWISTON, Maine - About two weeks ago, St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston closed its Behavioral Intensive Care Unit. Hospital officials say it's a move…