Maine Behavioral Healthcare is the result of a merger of some of the most highly respected and well-established behavioral healthcare organizations in the state. They include the formerly-named Community Counseling Center, Counseling Services, Inc., Mid-Coast Mental Health Center, and Spring Harbor Community Services, as well as Spring Harbor Hospital, a division of Maine Behavioral Healthcare. Mental health touches 1 of every 4 people. Maine Behavioral Healthcare serves inCumberland, York, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, Oxford, Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec and Somerset counties.
They are building a collaborative, community-oriented network of treatment providers. The agencies of Maine Behavioral Healthcare pool their resources and purchasing power to effectively reduce the cost of delivering mental healthcare in Maine. They share administrative functions, such as legal services, human resources, information technology, finance and billing/collection services.
The primary goal is connecting consumers to appropriate care when they need it. That means improving access to services across our network, increasing consumers' reliance on care offered close to home such as primary care or community treatment and appropriately reducing the time spent in the most expensive care settings such as emergency rooms or hospital beds. It also means effectively coordinating each consumer's care across our multiple agencies and treatment settings to assure best outcomes.
They focus on:
-promoting recovery
-looking at mental and physical well being
-will become nationally recognized by their evidence based research
-they proved a system that maximizes the patients experiences
-focus on outcomes of the treatment rather than volume
-need to get into the prevention
