Patient and Family Education/Engagement
What is it?The Center for Clinical Resources is a centralized, interdisciplinary approach to care coordination for individuals who have one or more chronic health conditions. A multidisciplinary team provides patients with the interventional care, education and support needed to manage chronic…
What is it?Castle Medical Center’s Wellness &Lifestyle Medicine Center offers a free Live Well Tobacco-Free program for the community and hospitalized patients. The program uses evidence-based strategies for tobacco cessation. Lifestyle behavior changes also are incorporated to promote a…
What is it?In 2012, Mount Desert Island Hospital partnered with nonprofit organizations in three counties to launch the Coastal Care Team (CCT). The team works closely with patient-centered medical home practices to identify complex, high-need patients who may benefit from additional services.…
What is it?In 2012, the Rutland Community Health Team started an Advance Directive (AD) Explainer program that uses trained hospital volunteers to facilitate the completion and filing of ADs for healthy adults. Program volunteers navigate the process, explain the forms, help clients express their…
What is it?It has been two years since Roger Williams Medical Center and Fatima Hospital – both part of the CharterCARE system – opened the state’s first senior-friendly emergency departments (EDs). Both departments underwent physical renovations and modifications, while staff received enhanced…
What is it?An innovative model of group care, CenteringPregnancy allows a pregnant woman to meet regularly with a nurse-midwife and several women in similar stages of pregnancy for health assessments, education and peer support. The program empowers the mother-to-be by teaching her how to be an…
What is it?HELP provides access to routine health care, culturally competent care and education, and a support group. HELP care plans are customized based on the individual’s needs, and high-risk program participants receive a kit containing an electronic tablet and other necessary medical…
What is it?Established in 1994, the Creative Arts Program uses a variety of art media, such as painting or ceramics, as a treatment modality. This innovative therapeutic art studio complements the hospital’s existing therapy programs to enhance the rehabilitative process and improve the quality of…
What is it?The program includes individual and group education on topics such as understanding the diabetes disease process, the relationship between diabetes and food, healthy meal planning, using monitoring results to manage one’s diabetes, medication use, how to prevent or delay complications…