The organization expects to save $600,000 annually by ending that lease and the associated building maintenance costs, Carlisle said. On April 1, those employees will be moved to another administration building on Maine Avenue. The Odlin Road building housed 35 employees who oversaw patient records and referrals, billing and other communications, Carlisle said. This led PCHC to sell two non-clinical properties and end its lease of an administrative building on Odlin Road in Bangor. In addition to patient volumes being slow to rebound, Carlisle said rising costs of providing care, losing providers and the expiration of pandemic-related grant funding further contributed to the organization’s financial crunch.
We’ve seen some big societal shifts with the pandemic, and that may be the case with people’s health care choices.” “For others, it may be that priorities have shifted during COVID.
“For some, it may just be that they got ‘out of the habit’ over 2.5 years of pandemic restrictions, and the ensuing worry about entering a health care setting,” Carlisle said. While hospitals can blame lower post-pandemic patient counts on the halting of elective surgeries and procedures, Carlisle said there’s no clear reason for why people are slower to return to their regular primary and preventive care providers. In the last year, PCHC providers saw only 60,000 patients. PCHC has nearly 900 employees and oversees about 20 clinics in Bangor, Brewer, Old Town, Winterport, Belfast, Jackman and two in local high schools.īefore the pandemic, PCHC had approximately 65,000 regular patients, and that revenue was responsible for the majority of the agency’s operating budget, Carlisle said. (news release)ĬLIMATE: Beach sand replenishment work common along the Jersey Shore may become fruitless or impossible as climate change and sea level rise continue to worsen.PCHC is the latest local health care facility trying to recover from the financial burdens and staffing shortages brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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