By Barbara Tetreault
BERLIN – In a tough budget season, the city council got some good news at its budget session Wednesday night. City Manager Patrick MacQueen and Health and Welfare Director Angela Martin-Giroux reported the city’s home health nursing program will not have to convert to a computerized system that had threatened the future of the program. MacQueen said the federal government has decided not to require smaller communities to convert to the system. Given that fact, MacQueen said he ...
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