2020 Stories: Strides Worth Celebrating

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Three Years and Loving Life!

Three Years and Loving Life!

 Sara embraced Maine Behavioral Healthcare’s holistic approach to substance use treatment with enthusiasm as a way to turn her life around.

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Construction Efforts Focus on Safety and Excellence

Construction Efforts Focus on Safety and Excellence

Transforming spaces in our 100-bed facility to better serve our patients including renovations to our young adult unit, adolescent unit, and intensive care unit.

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Fostering Gold Standards of Tobacco Independence

Fostering Gold Standards of Tobacco Independence

Maine Behavioral Healthcare has partnered with the Breathe Easy initiative to adopt tobacco-free policies across all service areas.

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The Body and Mind: One Patient. One Record.

The Body and Mind: One Patient. One Record.

In February of 2020, all Maine Behavioral Healthcare patient records were officially integrated to a new shared electronic health system called Epic.

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Peer Recovery Partners: Building Connections

Peer Recovery Partners: Building Connections

Providing innovative mental health treatment for emergency department patients using peer support options.

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Expanding Adult Care in Sanford

Expanding Adult Care in Sanford

New 40-patient unit represents a much-needed increase in available psychiatric services for the area.

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Increasing Telehealth Access

Increasing Telehealth Access

With little time to plan, staff at our behavioral health outpatient clinics had to respond quickly to the pandemic’s impact on providing care to patients.

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Lunder Family Alliance Expands to the Community

Lunder Family Alliance Expands to the Community

A second location means expanded support and services to help patients throughout their journey to become whole again.

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Improving Rural Psychiatric Care Access

Improving Rural Psychiatric Care Access

New Rural Residency Training Track gives participants a unique opportunity to provide care in communities that are substantially under-resourced.

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Zero Suicide: One Parent’s Story

Zero Suicide: One Parent’s Story

MBH adopts national Zero Suicide initiative, a mission and framework for providing improved suicide care in health care settings, under the firm belief that suicide is preventable.

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Working with MBH

Working with MBH

Hear from our team about their experiences working for MBH.

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Zero Suicide: One Parent’s Story

Zero Suicide: One Parent’s Story

MBH adopts national Zero Suicide initiative, a mission and framework for providing improved suicide care in health care settings, under the firm belief that suicide is preventable.

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Working with MBH

Working with MBH

With little time to plan, staff at our behavioral health outpatient clinics had to respond quickly to the pandemic’s impact on providing care to patients.

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Lunder Family Alliance Expands to the Community

Lunder Family Alliance Expands to the Community

A second location means expanded support and services to help patients throughout their journey to become whole again.

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Improving Rural Psychiatric Care Access

Improving Rural Psychiatric Care Access

New Rural Residency Training Track gives participants a unique opportunity to provide care in communities that are substantially under-resourced.

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Philanthropy Soldiers On Despite Pandemic

Philanthropy Soldiers On Despite Pandemic

The philanthropy department at MBH rolled up their collective sleeves to continue the important work of raising funds for our programs.

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