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Maine Community Hospitals: Providing High-Quality, Affordable Care, Mary C. Mayhew
Maine Community Hospitals: Providing High-Quality, Affordable Care, Mary C. Mayhew
Maine Policy Review
Mary Mayhew in this commentary provides the perspective of the Maine Hospital Association in response to a study analyzing hospital costs in Maine from 1993-2003.
A Physician’S Perspective, D. Joshua Cutler
A Physician’S Perspective, D. Joshua Cutler
Maine Policy Review
D. Joshua Cutler gives his insights about hospital costs as a physician member of the Commission to Study Maine’s Hospitals.
Financial Performance Of Hospitals In Maine, 1993-2003, Nancy Kane
Financial Performance Of Hospitals In Maine, 1993-2003, Nancy Kane
Maine Policy Review
Hospitals are the largest single component of healthcare expenditures. Nancy Kane’s study of hospital financial performance fulfills a mandate of Maine’s Dirigo Health Reform Act. By most financial measures, Maine’s hospital industry outperformed hospitals nationwide and in the Northeast during 1993-2003. Still, there is major variability among the state’s hospitals in financial performance. Kane analyzes financial and non-financial characteristics of high-, medium-, and low-performing hospitals, and suggests that not maintaining acute inpatient volume is the biggest problem for low-profitability hospitals. Although no hospital is in imminent danger of failing, Kane suggests a new “blueprint” is needed for Maine’s healthcare system, …