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July 6, 2010

Debt pressures Jackman health center

By The Mainebiz News Staff

The Jackman Region Health Center is grappling with ways to shrink its debt and maintain its service, after operating in the red for a number of years.

The center, a division of MaineGeneral Medical Center, must develop a plan to reduce its $500,000 annual deficit by next July, according to the Kennebec Journal. The center provides hospital services, including 24-hour urgent care, doctor and ambulance services, and a nursing home, for more than 900 people in the Jackman and Moose River areas. Last year, the center's budget was $2.2 million, while revenue totaled $1.7 million. MaineGeneral has agreed to fund $250,000 of the deficit as it has for a number of years.

Nora Boyink, senior vice president at MaineGeneral Health, told the paper reducing the center's expenditures would pose a challenge, since its overhead and staff are already small. State license regulations changed the center's emergency room designation, which means a reduction in private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare funding. The center could eliminate the nursing home, whose population has been declining, its 24-hour care or ambulance service, but the final plan will derive from community input, Boyink told the paper.

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