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Board Members: |
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President-Elect
John Gale
Muskie School of Public Health
96 Falmouth St, PO Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104-9300
Phone: (207) 228-8246
Fax: (207) 228-8138
Email: jgale@usm.maine.edu
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Director
Charles Dwyer
Maine Rural Health and Primary Care
286 Water St
August, ME 04333
Phone: (207) 287-5524
Fax: (207) 287-5431
Email: charles.dwyer@maine.gov
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Director
Ken Topel
HealthWays/Maine Telemedicine Services
43 South Lubec Road
Lubec, ME 04652
Phone: (207) 287-7156
Email: ktopel@rmcl.org |
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Director
Jonathan Sprague
President, Rocky Coast Consulting
PO Box 1131
Bangor, ME 04402-1131
Phone: (207) 990-0880
Email: JonathanSprague@RockyCoastConsulting.com |
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News & Events: |
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- New Balance Foundation Helps Maine Kids: The New Balance Foundation has donated $138,167 to a pilot program in Norridgewock and Skowhegan to help combat childhood obesity. The money will fund the Move More Kids program, to encourage children in rural Maine to get more exercise.
The Somerset Heart Health Project is partnering with Skowhegan Family Medicine, Redington-Fairview General Hospital, and MaineGeneral Medical Center to design the program. The 2005 Maine Youth Risk Behavior Survey showed that 12 percent of middle school students are overweight and 14 percent are at risk of being overweight. New Balande Foundation is stepping up to the plate to help reverse this trend to obesity. Some of the benefits from the new program include snowshoes given to schools in School Administrative District 54, mountain bikes provided to Skowhegan parks; and training of new lifeguards and swim instructors at area swim programs.
- November 2007: The Maine Dental Health Access Coalition has recently issued the "Maine Oral Health Improvement Plan," which outlines 13 goals and strategies to improve oral health for people in Maine. The plan is intended to serve "as a flexible, working guide for those who have a role to play in improving oral health." Download the 32-page Maine Oral Health Improvement Plan (PDF/486KB).
- News from Around New England (NERHRT Newsletter)
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