Acadia’s new president sees solutions to Maine’s psychiatric care struggles

Acadia’s new president sees solutions to Maine’s psychiatric care struggles

A Bangor psychiatric hospital’s new president plans to use his experience as a paramedic, entrepreneur and behavioral health leader to find solutions to Maine’s psychiatric care bottleneck. Mark Lukens started as Northern Light Health’s senior vice president and Acadia Hospital’s president about 10 weeks ago. He also teaches at the State University of New York. Lukens is a Montana native but spent most of his life in Pennsylvania. He worked as…