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A Community Partnership to Develop a Recuperative Care Facility

BY CHRISTOPHER WELLINS, MD, MS, FACP, RENEE FAY-LEBLANC, MD, FACP, AND COURTNEY PLADSEN, DNP
Maine Medical Center (MMC) is a 700-bed tertiary care facility located in Portland, Maine, and is the anchor hospital of the nine-hospital MaineHealth System. In 2012 we developed the Long Stay Intervention Workgroup (LSIW) as a way of getting all the right stakeholders together who were empowered to make decisions regarding achieving discharges for our most challenging patients.

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Leveraging Community Health Workers within an Interdisciplinary Care Team to Care For Older Adults

BY LAUREN O’CONNELL, LICSW, AND ROBERTA CAPP, MD, MHS
Community health workers (CHWs) are non-clinical members of the community who usually share ethnicity, language and life experiences with the community members they serve (NIHLBI, 2023). Traditionally, CHWs are social and change agents; they reduce disparities and inequities by expanding knowledge and access to benefits and community services.