Article 717WB Maine’s largest healthcare system informed still-living patients of their own deaths

Maine’s largest healthcare system informed still-living patients of their own deaths

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Maya Yang
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More than 500 people received letters from MaineHealth expressing condolences and providing estate instructions

Maine's largest healthcare system accidentally sent condolence letters to more than 500 living patients in effect informing them that they had died.

MaineHealth attributed the blunder to a computer system error and apologized.

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