Health Care Notebook: In Bar Harbor and Falmouth, consolidations are in the works
Photo / Courtesy MDI Hospital
Acadia Family Center in Southwest Harbor.
An acquisition is on the docket for Bar Harbor’s Mount Desert Island Hospital and a merger is underway of two practices in Falmouth.
MDI Hospital
In Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island Hospital said it would acquire Acadia Family Center, a nonprofit in the neighboring town of Southwest Harbor.
The transition will start Dec. 18 and includes the integration of Acadia Family Center's services into MDI Hospital’s Community Health Center at the hospital's clinics in Southwest Harbor and Northeast Harbor.
Acadia Family Center is Mount Desert Island’s only licensed facility treating individuals and families afflicted with substance abuse and related mental health disorders. Its origin is rooted in the MDI Alcohol and Drug Abuse Group, established in 1978 by a group of citizens from Mount Desert Island and the Cranberry Isles concerned about the increase in alcohol and other drug-related problems in their communities, according to the center’s website.
The group became an extension of the MDI Hospital's Chemical Dependency Unit and funded educational programs in the hospital and local schools. In 1988, Acadia Family Center opened as the group's treatment branch in Southwest Harbor.
With the acquisition, MDI Hospital will repurpose the Acadia Family Center building to support community outreach and engagement initiatives. The hospital has agreed to use the center’s assets for elements of a plan that includes community education, collaboration with schools, family resiliency training, support groups for teens and adults, and substance use disorder prevention and recovery coaching and support.
Falmouth medical practice
In Falmouth, Truform Longevity Center and North Star Holistic Medicine said they would merge their practices in functional and advanced regenerative medicine.
Truform said the merger will bring on Allison Gray, a nurse practitioner who started North Star.
The merger will become effective Jan. 1, according to a news release.
Functional medicine “strives to uncover the underlying imbalances causing symptoms, instead of simply treating the symptoms themselves,” according to North Star’s website..
The combined practice will operate at Truform’s clinic in Falmouth.
Bringing the practices together expands Truform’s clinical capabilities in the areas of functional medicine and women’s health,” said Andre Couture, Truform’s medical director and co-founder.
Couture studied medicine at the University of New England College of Medicine and underwent his residency training in the western New York region, specializing in emergency medicine. Upon becoming board certified, he returned to Maine and opened Truform earlier this year.
Truform offers personalized treatment programs that include diagnostics such as functional medicine evaluations, genetic methylation screening, food sensitivity and biological age testing, with the goal of establishing biomarkers to inform clinical care, according to a news release.
Treatment plans for gut health, detoxification support, autoimmune management, injury recovery and biological age reversal include combinations of hormone replacement therapy and testosterone, peptides, exosomes/stem cells, platelet rich plasma, custom-formulated nutritional supplements, infusion therapies, medical weight management and aesthetic dermal and vein treatments.
The merger will provide North Star patients with expanded access to “the entire range of functional medicine and longevity health breakthroughs that are continuously emerging,” said Gray, who will become Truform’s director of functional medicine and women's health.
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