Houlton Regional Hospital.

You are encuraged to attend a Town Hall meeting today, Wednesday, April 9th, at 5:30 pm., at the John A. Millar Civic Center, 94 Randall Avenue, in Houlton.  The purpose of this Town Hall is to discuss the announced closure of the Houlton Regional Hospital’s planned closure of the labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum unit according to a press release from the Maine State Nurses Association.

Nurses werre informed of the planned closure last week and say it is a disastrous decision for patients across their region, who could face much longer travel times to seek labor and delivery care.

This news comes just after Mount Desert Island Hospital announced the closure of its own obstetrics unit effective July 1, 2025, amidst a rash of several other maternal care departments closing across the state of Maine in recent years.

Members of the public will join nurses in their demand to keep their communty’s LDRP department open and to demand more transparency and accountabilityin the hospital’s decision-making processes.