AUGUSTA — Riverview Psychiatric Center Superintendent Mary Louise McEwen has been terminated after five years on the job, according to Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew. “In evaluating where Riverview Psychiatric Center is today and our vision for the hospital moving forward, I felt that a change in leadership gave us the […]
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LePage administration continues campaign against Medicaid expansion
Agriculture Commissioner Walter Whitcomb said the state’s natural resource agencies — Agriculture, Conservation, Marine Resources, Environmental Protection, and Inland Fisheries and Wildlife — had lost $13 million in state funding in just five years, a reduction he attributes to regular annual shortfalls in the the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers MaineCare. “We […]
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DHHS chief Mayhew says budget gap only totals $78 million
AUGUSTA — The projected budget shortfall for the state’s Health and Human Services Department will be significantly less than originally projected, the department’s commissioner said Friday. DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew told lawmakers on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee that the updated forecast incorporates six months of data from the current fiscal year, leading to a $30 […]
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DHHS commissioner makes case against expansion
PORTLAND — The head of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services reiterated Gov. Paul LePage’s stance against Medicaid expansion in the state, telling Portland business leaders Wednesday morning that the move would ultimately cannibalize other parts of the state budget. Mary Mayhew, commissioner of DHHS, spoke to the Portland Community Chamber at one […]
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DHHS chief: MaineCare changes underway
AUBURN — If MaineCare is expanded to add another 70,000 clients to the rolls, “it will break an already fragile system,” Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew said Wednesday. Such an expansion also would continue to drain resources needed for other necessary social services and state programs, including building roads and funding […]
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Lawmakers get update on status of Riverview
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday were updated on the status of the state’s embattled Riverview Psychiatric Center. The state’s only “forensic” hospital that houses people with violent mental illnesses has for months been under the scrutiny of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The hospital is […]