Local media report on UNE’s federal grant to improve rural Maine health care

The Journal Tribune, Mainebiz, MPBN and WABI have covered the story of UNE’s five-year, $2.5 million federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to improve health care in underserved Maine communities, in partnership with Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC).

A total of 255 UNE students from the medical, physician assistant and pharmacy programs will complete training at PCHC, learning the interprofessional skills necessary for comprehensive, team-based care. UNE faculty will work onsite with 30 PCHC clinicians, preparing them to become clinical faculty for these new proficiencies. Dora Anne Mills, M.D., UNE’s vice president for Clinical Affairs, director of the Center for Excellence in Health Innovation is the grant’s principal investigator and chief author.

The grant starts July 1, 2016 and runs through June 30, 2021.

Read the story from the Journal Tribune, Mainebiz and MPBN.

Watch the story on WABI.

To learn more about the University of New England’s Center for Excellence in Health Innovation, visit www.une.edu/academics/centers-institutes/center-excellence-health-innovation

To apply, visit www.une.edu/admissions