Maine health systems to use $673,000 in grants to improve care for uninsured
Three Maine health systems are receiving $672,887 to expand access to health care for people who are uninsured.
Maine Health Access Foundation is awarding the grants to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, MaineHealth CarePartners for Knox County and Penobscot Community Health Care in Bangor.
Wendy Wolf, the foundation’s president and CEO, said in a statement that the goal of the Access to Quality Care program is to ensure that people who are uninsured experience better, more coordinated care.
“People without health insurance face significant challenges in accessing health care services to maintain their health. We want everyone in Maine to be able to have an ongoing relationship with a trusted doctor or other primary care provider.”
Franklin Memorial Hospital will use the funding to coordinate transitions of care for people without insurance and link them to primary care providers and to other services in Franklin County.
MaineHealth will implement its CarePartners program in Knox County. The program works with local health care providers, social services agencies and municipalities to meet health care, food, housing and transportation needs of uninsured people.
Penobscot Community Health Care will use the funding to coordinate care for people with chronic pain or opiate addiction by linking patients to primary care physicians and collaborative care management teams. It will also be used to train health care providers on better chronic pain management to reduce the use of opiates.
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