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Good morning from the shores of Gouldsboro Bay, where the ramifications of the federal budget reconciliation law are beginning to be felt.
Agencies in northern Maine are combining resources to cover the loss of an HIV program in Lubec. Good Shepherd is worried about providing assistance to the nearly 50,000 Mainers receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The law could shift around $60 million in annual SNAP funding to the state.
And, in response to the turbulence in the health care industry, two family nurse practitioners have opened their own practice in Orland, saying the changing health care landscape is affecting much needed services to rural residents.
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Community health agencies are scrambling to make up for the loss of funding for the Northern Maine HIV program, which was most recently run in Lubec. | Bangor Daily News
A local transit service connecting people in northern Maine with jobs is a rousing success. The reason is workers are picked up at their doorstep. | Bangor Daily News
Two family nurse practitioners have launched a private practice in the Orland Community Center offering acute/same-day care, chronic disease management and physicals for all age groups. | Ellsworth American
A new law authorizes $100,000 over two years for a pilot program to test for biotoxins in cultured scallops. | Ellsworth American
Good Shepherd Food Bank says the federal budget reconciliation law could result in the loss of 20 million meals to Mainers. | Mainebiz
Maine winds down housing programs for asylum seekers | The Maine Monitor
The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional debt before the agency moved to take the homes. | Bangor Daily News |
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