This would be a very, very sad move.

The local board that oversees Pen Bay Medical Center, Waldo County General Hospital, the Knox Center, Quarry Hill, Kno-Wal-Lin, the Sussman House and nearly all the physician offices in the Midcoast will be seeking public comment over the summer on a proposal to merge its operations under one statewide board. In a series of votes at nine of the 10 entities that make up MaineHealth, the individual boards decided over the course of the past month that "the time was right to engage their communitie