Kelley Bouchard is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald who writes about tourism, transportation, agriculture, supermarkets, forest industries, sustainability, minority-owned businesses and other subjects. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, immigration, history, human rights, aging issues, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2012
Foundation pledges $25K to keep free clinic open
The Emanuel and Pauline Lerner Foundation challenges others to match its promised contribution, which will be made only if the clinic receives a matching grant.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2012
Foundation’s gift extends life of free Portland health clinic
Portland’s mayor hopes other foundations will help keep the facility open to serve those who can’t afford health insurance.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2012
Mercy Hospital: Potential buyer wasn’t misled
A memo tells a different story about how talks faltered between Mercy and a for-profit group.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2012
Families mostly powerless when mentally ill adult resists help
Legal protections make it difficult to force treatment, but one man’s personal tragedy has led to changes.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2012
Maine moves up to ninth healthiest state
Compared to all other states, Maine has less violent crime, a smaller uninsured population and fewer low-weight births.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Across nation, unsettling acceptance when mentally ill in crisis are killed
Even as they face a growing number of disturbed people, police often lack crisis training. And the leadership and data-gathering needed to stem the bloodshed are largely absent.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2012
Limited data on police, mentally ill encounters
National data on police shootings of the mentally ill are all but nonexistent, yet there are some statistics that help to inform the issue: • The latest Police-Public Contact Survey by the U.S. Department of Justice, released last year, found that police used or threatened to use force against an estimated 1.9 percent of the […]
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PublishedDecember 7, 2012
Maine medical records going high-tech
For the 1.5 million patients in Maine Med’s index, the Internet-accessible system will centralize their health-care history.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2012
Ten apply for job as Maine’s health exchange coordinator
The new hire will help agencies with the federal version of a state exchange Gov. LePage opposes.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2012
State Theatre looks to share success
The music venue invites businesses to become sponsors, provide funds and be part of its brand.
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