The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Monday issued a certificate of need for the merger of the two health care systems, the CEOs of both told Mainebiz.
Mid Coast-Parkview Health, which operates the 93-bed Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, plans to become part of MaineHealth, the state’s largest health care system.
Corporators of MaineHealth gave final approval Thursday to the unification plan in which MaineHealth's Maine-based hospital members will become a single not-for-profit entity on Jan. 1.
For the third consecutive year, Becker's Hospital Review has named Mid Coast Hospital one of America's 100 Great Community Hospitals for 2018. Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent is the only other Maine hospital to make the top 100 in Becker's annual review of hospitals with fewer than 550 beds.
In a new initiative to help people overcome opioid addiction, Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick is the first hospital in Maine to begin prescribing Suboxone in its emergency department.
Six Maine hospitals received “A” grades in the spring 2018 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades released in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Two out of 14 acute care hospitals in Maine that were reviewed — Central Maine Medical Center, which is based in Lewiston, and St. Joseph Hospital of Bangor — received “C” grades, while the remaining six received “B” grades.
As part of a $6.2 million renovation of its Parkview campus, Mid Coast Hospital has opened a new state-of-the-art primary care practice on the second floor of the former Brunswick hospital.