Reinventing Home Health Care Delivery: The Home Health Portable Workstation
Jim Byrne, a physical therapist at CHANS Home Health & Hospice, addresses an opportunity to reinvent the delivery of essential home health [...]
Easing the Transition from Hospital Care: Community Partnership Helps Patients with Unstable Housing
People who have unstable housing or experience homelessness after hospitalization have 30 percent more visits to the ER after discharge than people [...]
Dementia Blankets: Cozy Comfort Calms Patient Confusion
When a patient with dementia enters the emergency department (ED), they may feel especially unsettled. They often don’t know where they [...]
Tackling the Opioid Overdose Crisis: Post-Partum Patients Equipped with Naloxone First Aid Kits
As opioid overdoses continue to take the lives of drug users in the U.S., healthcare workers are looking for [...]
Picture This: Health hazards stand out with simple stickers
Heather Carll, of Maine Medical Center’s (MMC) Environmental Services (EVS) department, manages a team that comprises many employees who are [...]
Adventure Awaits: SMHC’s Escape Room Combines Collaboration and Learning
UNE: Chancel Diazenza, Morgan Desmond, Cameron Mann, Matthew McDonald, Izzi Marcea, and Kyle Woodruff. SMHC: Jennifer Smith, Sarah [...]
Easing Anxiety: VR helps pediatric patients through scary procedures
When pediatric patients require infusion therapy, the experience can often make them feel anxious or nervous. Infusions require placing [...]
NeuroCOPE: Bringing Hope to the Neuro ICU Care Team
APP Program Manager Angela LeClerc and her team at Maine Medical Center are addressing the lack of information on post-ICU patient recovery in [...]
Reinventing Home Health Care Delivery: The Home Health Portable Workstation
Jim Byrne, a physical therapist at CHANS Home Health & Hospice, addresses an opportunity to reinvent the delivery [...]
Easing the Transition from Hospital Care: Community Partnership Helps Patients with Unstable Housing
People who have unstable housing or experience homelessness after hospitalization have 30 percent more visits to the ER [...]
Dementia Blankets: Cozy Comfort Calms Patient Confusion
When a patient with dementia enters the emergency department (ED), they may feel especially unsettled. They often [...]
Telehealth Cart: Innovative Collaboration Makes Patient Care Successful
When the MaineHealth IT team identified the need for a telehealth solution that was affordable, easy to use, and interfaced with internal MaineHealth technology, [...]
Bridging the Health Gap for Rural Youth: The School and Community Health Advisory Council
Children and teens in rural areas often face barriers, such as travel time, when accessing healthcare, whether they’re sick or seeking preventive treatment. In [...]
Optimizing the Workforce with Artificial Intelligence: Olive
Since joining MaineHealth as the Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) in 2014, Paul Chausse has implemented innovation methodologies to streamline his team’s [...]
A Low-Cost Cancer Screening Solution: Lediscan
Well-versed in global health, Obieze “Obi” Nwanna-Nzewunwa, MD, MS, brought unique experience and a desire to continue helping underserved communities to MMC when he [...]
Breathe Easier: The Oxygen Therapy Band
Deb Flint, RRT with an early design of her Oxygen Therapy Band innovation. Deb Flint, RRT, has been caring for patients [...]
Containing COVID-19: Collapsible Aerosolized Particle Enclosure
Imagine a busy hospital emergency department (ED) filled with patients, many of whom have or may have COVID-19. The need to contain the spread [...]