Building a Healthier Community through Conversation: The Oxford County Wellness Collaborative
Essential to MeHAF’s Healthy Community philosophy is to encourage communities to determine what they want to achieve, what they already have in place, what system barriers exist that they can collectively address without creating new programs or services, and what they need to create. The goal is to seed multiple aligned strategies and encourage diverse…
Read MoreAdvancing Rural Health System Transformation Conference
Health care in Maine is a conundrum—especially for rural communities. On the one hand, the health care sector is the state’s largest source of jobs, and in many rural counties, health care makes up a disproportionally higher share of overall employment. The health care sector provides many meaningful opportunities for employment for rural community members.…
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Maine Rural Health Profiles
Maine Rural Health Profiles offers a detailed look at the status of rural health and the rural health system, both statewide and in each of the state’s 16 counties. Prepared by the Maine Rural Health Research Center, the report provides critical data and information to apprise stakeholders and inform conversations about developing a more sustainable, high-performing…
Read MoreMaine Rural Health Innovations Briefs
This series of briefs was produced in conjunction with the Maine Rural Health Research Center to describe robust and innovative models and strategies from Maine and other parts of the country related to the areas of health finance and payment, governance, workforce, and service delivery that have the potential to be replicated or adapted here…
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