Boothbay Region Health Center

Primary Care Health Center serving patients on the Boothbay, Maine peninsula and beyond

Boothbay Region Health Center
185 Townsend Ave • Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538 Phone: (207) 633-1075  • Fax: (877) 492-1491

info@bbrhc.org
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Community Health Needs Assessment update

An expanded collaborative, now including Central Maine Healthcare and the Maine Center for Disease Control (MeCDC) in addition to Eastern Maine Health, MaineHealth, and Maine General Health, recently issued an update to the state Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).

The portion of the report specific to Lincoln County may be found here:

The CHNA was originally done in 2006 and was previously updated in 2010 and 2013.  The report again demonstrates that good health in the community and for individuals is determined by:
1. Socio-Economic factors,
2. public health policy and practice,
3. long-term prevention incl. stopping smoking, getting immunizations, and having effective periodic screening procedures
4. specific clinical intervention for high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol
5. individual healthy behaviors incl. healthy eating and exercise

As a community we can:

1. Take local control of our primary health service.

2. Establish a patient-driven primary care practice model

3. Increase access and use primary health care services appropriately.

4. Make both individual and community-wide choices that will result in improved health status.

1. Get a higher percentage of the population into an ongoing relationship with a primary care provider.

2. Reduce perhaps by half the number of unnecessary Emergency Department and Urgent Care visits.

3. Achieve a demonstrable improvement in the health status of the community.