Wednesday, April 30, 2025
4/30/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - This project will support Eastern Maine Medical Center dba Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) to renovate a leased space for the purpose of creating an oncology survivorship program located at 43 Whiting Hill Road, Brewer, ME, 04412. The space is a leased space within an Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems dba Northern Light Health (NLH) owned building. Oncology survivorship programs enhance the quality of health care experience and survival rates for cancer patients by providing physical, educational, psychosocial, and functional support. This survivorship clinic, serving the greater northeast region of Maine, will provide holistic care for several hundred cancer survivors annually in this predominantly rural and underserved region. Additionally, creating a survivorship center will increase the regional healthcare network’s capacity to serve oncology patients by transitioning the care continuum from medical oncologists to specialty, survivorship teams. In a region where many communities are medically underserved, increasing provider capacity and supporting the healthcare workforce is a benefit to the overall healthcare environment for patients and providers alike. This survivorship clinic will be the only one of its kind for over 150 miles to the north and east of Bangor. The activities described in this application align with the funding requested to create a clinical space for the EMMC cancer survivorship program. Proposed renovations will include the alteration of an existing leased space to create three exam rooms that can be used to provide clinical or integrated care. Also available will be two consult rooms, a waiting room/flexible group activities space, and administrative staff space including offices/shared-work locations, registration, and scheduling. This space will be a relaxing and supportive space for the provision of health care services with additional spaces for holistic and integrated medicine practices. The target population of this initiative is oncology patients in Maine.
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