Miles Delivers Action Coalition

§ 01 — Financial Dashboard

The numbers MaineHealth isn't talking about

FY2024 $8.7M Lincoln Hospital net income
5.56% Lincoln Hospital operating margin
0.94% MaineHealth system margin

Lincoln Hospital — the audited reporting entity that includes the Miles campus — is profitable and outperforms its parent system. Charts, tables, and peer comparisons drawn directly from audited MaineHealth financials and public Form 990 filings — the data that contradicts the case for closure.

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§ 02 — Research Dossier

Evidence, analysis, and the full record

A comprehensive brief: audited financials, federal grant documentation (RMOMS, MERGE), demand data, York Hospital comparisons, and a line-by-line accounting of what MaineHealth has said versus what the record actually shows.

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Demand & Consequences

MaineHealth calls the birth center 'unsustainable.' But the data tell a different story.

→ The number of birthing-age women in Lincoln County is rising, up 10% since 2020 → Deliveries at Miles increased 40 percent from 2019 to 2024. → MaineHealth's own senior public-health advisor has warned that when a maternity unit closes, infant mortality in the affected area doubles.

Step 01

Need is growing

+40% deliveries at Miles, 2019–2024
+9% women 25–44 in Lincoln County, 2020–2024 (3,420 → 3,734)

MaineHealth calls the unit unsustainable.

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Step 02

L&D closes

The only labor-and-delivery unit serving central Lincoln County ends services

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Step 03

Infant mortality doubles

MaineHealth's own senior public-health advisor has warned that when a maternity unit closes, infant mortality in the affected area doubles.
Dora Anne Mills, MaineHealth Senior Advisor for Public Health — ASTHO Public Health Review, May 11, 2026

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Step 04

Maternal morbidity ↗

Obstetric unit closures are associated with a 33–55% increase in severe maternal morbidity in the affected population.
Geonnotti (2024); McGregor et al. (2021)