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- One hospital - Mayo Regional in Dover-Foxcroft - is organized through
a regional Hospital Administrative District. One acute care hospital
- Cary Medical Center - is owned by the municipality.
- Maine hospitals have focused on maintaining access to services and
retaining physicians by employing more than 40 percent of the physicians
in Maine, representing hundreds of practices. This trend away from privately
owned practicies has been dirven by poor physician reimbursement coupled
with a desire by physicians to improve their lifestyles.
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Since the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Program was
established in 1998, more than one third of Maine's hospitals have
been approved as CAH. The hospitals are Blue Hill Memorial Hospital,
Bridgton Hospital, Calais Regional Hospital, C. A. Dean Memorial Hospital,
Down East Community Hospital, Houlton Regional Hospital, Mayo Regional
Hospital, Millinocket Regional Hospital, Mount Desert Island Hospital,
Penobscot Valley Hospital, Redington-Fairview General Hospital, Rumford
Hospital, St. Andrews Hospital, Sebasticook Valley Hospital and Waldo
County General Hospital.
- It is the philosophy and practice of the hospitals in Maine that medically
necessary health care servcies rendered by the hospital should be available
to all individuals regardless of of their ability to pay. In 2005, Maine
hospitals provided more than $200 million of uncompensated care to those
who could not pay.
Comparative Data
Maine hospitals have adapted to the challenges of serving
the state's rural population. This is evident in Maine's low number
of hospital beds per square mile. For many, hospital emergency departments
have become the entry point to the health care system.
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Maine
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New
England
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U.S.
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| Beds
per 100 sq mi |
10.1
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51.5
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21.1
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| Average
Length of Stay |
4.8
|
5.2
|
5.1
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| Beds
per 1000 Residents |
2.7
|
2.4
|
2.7
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| Admissions
per 1000 Residents |
114.5
|
116.0
|
119.2
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Inpatient
Days per 1000 Residents
|
641.8
|
647
|
666.8
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| Emergency
Dept. Visits per 1000 Residents |
551.4
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448.0
|
388.0
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| Source:
AHA Hospital Statistics, 2007 ed. |
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Utilization
New technology has allowed many procedures to be moved
to the outpatient setting. This trend can be seen with the shift from
inpatient surgeries to outpatient surgeries. Maine's health infrastructure
makes hospitals the obvious setting for these outpatient services.
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2006
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2005
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Change
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| Discharges |
152,009
|
149,701
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1.5%
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| Inpatient
Surgeries |
44,781
|
45,014
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-0.5%
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| Outpatient
Surgeries |
118,198
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118,616
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-0.3%
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| Births |
13,892
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13,871
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0.1%
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