AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee decided to dig deeper Friday into a case that involves the mishandling and possibly illegal destruction of public documents by officials at the Maine Center for Disease Control, an agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. Voting 9-2, the panel agreed to invite CDC employees […]
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State’s attorneys general ask to withdraw from CDC whistle-blower case
LEWISTON — Two assistant attorneys general who had been defending the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and its director, Dr. Sheila Pinette, in a federal whistle-blower case have asked the court if they can withdraw as defense counsel. In a joint motion filed Friday, Assistant […]
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Oversight panel hears comments, postpones decision on CDC
A former Centers for Disease Control division director told legislators Friday that her bosses ordered her and another worker to shred public documents because their bosses expected someone to ask for those documents. A Department of Health and Human Services representative acknowledged there were “flaws” in the way the CDC distributed millions of dollars to […]
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Government Oversight Committee schedules public comment on CDC report
The Government Oversight Committee will meet Jan. 10 to take public comment on a recent state investigation into the destruction of documents and grant funding that may have been manipulated by workers at the Maine Centers for Disease Control. The Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, or OPEGA, completed its review of the CDC […]
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State investigation finds host of problems with grant awards
AUGUSTA — A state investigation has found a host of problems with the way the Maine Centers for Disease Control distributed millions of dollars to Healthy Maine Partnerships programs last year. Problems include supervisors who ordered the destruction of public documents, funding criteria that was changed during the selection process, HMP funding scores that were […]
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Investigation shows Maine CDC officials ordered documents destroyed
AUGUSTA — A state investigation has concluded that supervisors at the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered their staff to destroy documents related to the redistribution of healthy community coalition state funding last year. In June 2012, over a two-week period after the state budget was enacted, the CDC surveyed Maine’s 27 Healthy […]
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Former CDC division director files suit
Sharon Leahy-Lind, who said her bosses at the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention ordered her to shred public documents and harassed and discriminated against her when she refused, has filed suit against the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and Maine CDC director Sheila Pinette. DHHS oversees the Maine CDC. The suit, […]
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Maine CDC urges hepatitis vaccine for people who attended Durham event
AUGUSTA — A person infected with hepatitis A virus is reported to have served food at the Sept. 28 Durham Friends Meetinghouse, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The Maine CDC is investigating the event and urging the approximately 100 people who attended the church supper to get vaccinated to prevent illness. […]
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New Lyme disease estimate: 300,000 cases a year
ATLANTA (AP) — Lyme disease is about 10 times more common than previously reported, health officials said Monday. As many as 300,000 Americans are actually diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced. Usually, only 20,000 to 30,000 illnesses are reported each year. For many years, CDC officials have […]
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New gonorrhea ads target young women; Almost half of reported cases in Maine last year in Androscoggin County
One poster with a beaming, vintage housewife reads: “Judgey Janet might call you a tramp. We just want you to call.” In another poster, a gorgeous, twentysomething man gazes out with smouldering eyes. Below him, the message: “Get tested, beautiful.” They’re part of an education campaign kicked off early this year by the state, targeting […]