Summary
Under the pressure to become more efficient and the related demand to become more regional, it is understandable that Eastern Maine Healthcare would want a sleeker governing model and that its focus would be on more than just the Bangor area. But hospital members (recently known as corporators), the people who will decide in part whether the hospital system will go forward with a new plan, should not be willing to vote for such a change, at least not yet.
There are two major reasons for this, the first of which reflects on why the plan exists at all. Health care has become more complicated as its costs have demanded greater efficiency. Advances in medicine have expanded the kinds of care that are offered almost as fast as the increased scrutiny by payers and regulators have shaved revenue margins. Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems officials say they are responding to this by trying to make the governance structure more effective and efficient. Among the proposed changes is that EMHS members remove themselves from overseeing the parent board.See the full content of this document
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No Rush to Vote
The potential effects of losing this level of oversight are far- reaching, but at the most...
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