Maine hospitals
Maine hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
31 Medicare-certified hospitals serve Maine, represented by the Maine Hospital Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.
Maine Medical Center in Portland anchors the MaineHealth system and carries most statewide tertiary care. Maine Quality Counts operates the state's multi-payer quality scorecard.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: MaineHealth / Maine Medical Center (Portland), and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (Bangor). Each has its own detail page below.
Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.
Safety-net systems in Maine
- MaineHealth / Maine Medical Center (Portland)
- Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (Bangor)
All 31 hospitals in Maine
Bridgton Hospital
Bridgton
Calais Community Hospital
Calais
Down East Community Hospital
Machias
Mainehealth Franklin Hospital
Farmington
Mount Desert Island Hospital
Bar Harbor
Northern Light Blue Hill Memorial Hospital
Blue Hill
Northern Light C A Dean Hospital
Greenville
Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital
Pittsfield
Northern Maine Medical Center
Fort Kent
Penobscot Valley Hospital
Lincoln
Rumford Hospital
Rumford
Central Maine Medical Center
Lewiston
Lincolnhealth
Damariscotta
Maine General Medical Center
Augusta
Mainehealth Maine Medical Center
Portland
Mainehealth Stephens Hospital
Norway
Millinocket Regional Hospital
Millinocket
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor
Redington Fairview General Hospital
Skowhegan
Northern Light Mercy Hospital
Portland
St Joseph Hospital
Bangor
St Mary'S Regional Medical Center
Lewiston
York Hospital
York
Cary Medical Center
Caribou
Houlton Regional Hospital
Houlton
Mainehealth Mid Coast Hospital
Brunswick
Mainehealth Pen Bay Hospital
Rockport
Mainehealth Waldo Hospital
Belfast
Northern Light A R Gould Hospital
Presque Isle
Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital
Ellsworth
Northern Light Mayo Hospital
Dover Foxcroft
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- Maine Hospital Association — state hospital trade body (https://themha.org/).
- Maine Department of Health and Human Services — Division of Licensing and Certification — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/dlc).
- State hospital scorecard (https://www.mainequalitycounts.org/).
- AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr).
- CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System state releases (cdc.gov/pmss).
- The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades (leapfroggroup.org).
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