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Maine’s biggest healthcare network is apologizing after hundreds of living patients received letters telling them they were dead.

MaineHealth said a computer malfunction Oct. 20 caused 521 letters to go out through a third-party vendor system, each addressed to a patient and written as if the recipient had died.

“MaineHealth sincerely regrets this error,” the organization said in a statement. “We have since resolved the issue and sent apology letters to every affected patient.”

Officials stressed that no one was marked deceased in their medical records and that patient care wasn’t affected.

The glitch was confined to an automated estate-notification process based at MaineHealth’s Portland headquarters, which oversees Maine Medical Center and

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