Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives
Episode: Around Town 2/18/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Description: Host/Producer: Amy Browne In Augusta today, the legislature’s Committee On Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services will be taking comments from the public on a slew of bills related to healthcare in Maine, including: LD 2189, which, if passed, would “require a hospital to provide at least 120 days’ notice prior to the termination of maternity or newborn care services or of a change in the level of care a hospital provides for maternity and newborn care services”, and LD 2197 which would prohibit the licensure of any health care entity that “enter(s) into any arrangement with a real estate inv...