State delays ruling on MaineGeneral plan
The state has postponed for two months a final decision on MaineGeneral Health's plans to build a new hospital in Augusta.
The Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services has reopened the record for the proposed $322 million hospital project for 60 days in order to get more information, according to the Kennebec Journal. Catherine Cobb, division director, said review of the proposal is 95% complete but did not specify what additional information the division needs. Hospital officials were prohibited from communicating with state regulators while the certificate of need application was under review, but may do so now that the record is reopened.
MaineGeneral Health, which operates MaineGeneral Medical Center, last October proposed the consolidated hospital in Augusta to replace aging facilities in that city and Waterville by 2015, and filed the certificate of need in December. The plan in May received $35 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation.
The division will release a preliminary report after the new information is submitted, after which MaineGeneral has 10 days to respond before the commissioner makes a decision, according to the paper.
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