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Below are the Certificate of Need healthcare reviews conducted for the year 2016.
Coastal Eye Surgery
Below are the Certificate of Need healthcare reviews conducted for the year 2017.
The Division of Licensing & Certification (DLC) provides regulatory oversight of medical and long-term care facilities in Maine. This includes oversight of the CNA registry, criminal background checks for employers to ensure staff are safe to care for our vulnerable citizens, and investigations into allegations of unsafe practices/events in facilities as diverse as hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and group homes.
Certificate of Need reviews from previous years are available online by selecting a year.
The Maine Background Check Center (MBCC) is a secure, web-based system operated by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in partnership with the Maine Department of Public Safety (DPS) and regulated employers that provide care and services to vulnerable Maine citizens.
For more information, visit the Maine Background Check Portal.
22 MRSA §8753 requires hospitals/healthcare facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, end stage renal disease facilities, and intermediate care facilities for people with intellectual disabilities to report certain serious events to the Division of Licensing and Certification.
Note: This guidance is for employees of a facility, agency, or center who wish to report an incident on behalf of the facility, agency, or center only. See page File a Complaint for guidance if you are not an employee of the facility, agency, or center of if you are an employee but wish to file an incident as an individual and not on behalf of the facility, agency, or center.
To report an incident, please complete the online form.
Individuals wishing to file a complaint of regulatory non-compliance against a facility, agency, or center should submit our online complaint form (see below).