Maine Health

Industry:	Hospitals & Clinics
Employees:	630

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In September of 1997, MaineHealth developed an agreement that described a cooperative "relationship" with Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford. This agreement followed extensive discussions about corporate integration and formalized our commitment to work together.

You will remember that a focus on community health status was part of the original vision of the three-hospital talks in Portland, and you may have noticed that it has become steadily more prominent in MaineHealth's words and deeds. By November 1997, a new Strategic Plan stated it clearly and unequivocally:


Working together to make the people in our communities the healthiest in America.

1997 was capped off in December with the affiliation of MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and Waterville with the MaineHealth family. MaineGeneral Health is itself the product of a two-hospital merger, and is a large system that includes long-term care and home care. Its affiliation cemented a long-standing relationship with Maine Medical Center and also expanded MaineHealth's geographic scope into central Maine. Board chairman Arnie Yasinski, then-CEO Warren Kessler and current CEO Scott Bullock were instrumental in this important affiliation.

The pace of growth continued into 1998.

The consolidation of laboratory services in the region, a long-pursued goal, was realized in January. The laboratories from MMC, Brighton and NorDx, MMC's for-profit laboratory subsidiary merged into a new NorDx that was a member of the MaineHealth family.

The MMC Geriatric Center opened in July, offering a new dimension to senior care and heralding a coming MaineHealth emphasis on senior health.

During 1998, work was beginning on that most important part of MaineHealth's mission: health status improvement.

With staff in place, we turned to a very important, easily identified health status need: improved care for children with asthma. Asthma is a serious health problem in Maine. An estimated 22,000 children under the age of 18 have the disease, and it is the leading cause of school absenteeism from chronic disease. We know how to manage asthma, but still our children make too many trips to the emergency room and miss too much school.

We brought together the members of our family, Blue Cross, the school nurses association and other organizations for a collaborative attack on this problem.

The result was AH!, Asthma Health for Children, a collaboration that perhaps only MaineHealth could have orchestrated. The project has produced a public education campaign, and has awarded half a million dollars in funding for three pilot projects in asthma management.

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Maine health clinics receive federal funding Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 6/30/2009 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will distribute $10,220,875 in federal community health center grant funding to 18 community health centers in Maine. The money will be distributed to Maine clinics through federal stimulus funding. The grants include: . Maine Migrant Programs in ...more

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