Maine (ME)

What the state has obligated, by initiative

• ›Initiative 1: Population Health: Promoting timely access to high-quality care$10,890,848

  Behavioral Health · $5,209,872

  • Supporting the expansion of Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialists and Recovery Coaches in emergency department (ED) services, including budget monitoring, performance reporting, fidelity, hospital engagement, training, and technical assistance$244,284
  • Implementing workflows, agreements, and physical space to embed primary care in each Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) service area$1,323,984
  • Funding the hiring and management of additional Peer Recovery Coaches and Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialists to ensure Maine EDs have this coverage$1,740,152
  • Community Health Worker (CHW) training and defrayed supervisor costs$350,000
  • Developing trainings for the integration of Peers in multi-disciplinary settings, including core and continuing education, and training OBH staff and per-diem trainers for sustainability$135,420
  • Ensuring tribal populations have access to critical substance use treatment and mental health support$1,416,032

  Fostering Collaboration · $60,976

  • The Population Health initiative$60,976

  Innovative Care · $620,000

  • Developing a comprehensive inventory, implementation support toolkit, assessment framework, and purchase of mobile health units$500,000
  • Managing Rural Health Transformation (RHT) deliverables and scaling CHW certification$120,000

  Prevention of Chronic Disease · $5,000,000

  • Coordinating and administering nutrition education for rural communities and developing clinical linkages models with the Nutrition Education Coordinator$5,000,000
• ›Initiative 2: Workforce: Strengthening Maine's rural health workforce$18,358,231

  Fostering Collaboration · $1,586,488

  • The Workforce initiative$1,586,488

  Workforce · $16,771,743

  • Establishing Maine's early approach to Initiative Two: Workforce Activities needed under the Rural Health Transformation Program$54,149
  • Recruitment awards, which may be used for relocation or educational expenses$14,189,817
  • Developing career exploration programs and a student pipeline through local school districts and community-based organizations serving youth$500,000
  • Supporting the expansion of MaineJobLink, a case management platform that captures trainee, apprentice, and pre-apprentice information for Maine Department of Labor healthcare workforce programs to monitor enrollment, completion, employment, and wage outcomes for grant reporting$1,752,777
  • Providing health career navigation and support to jobseekers, including administering tuition remission training funds for individuals and cohorts$25,000
  • A Healthcare Workforce Uniform Data Set$250,000
• ›Initiative 3: Technology: Modernizing rural care delivery with digital health technology$17,655,278

  Appropriate Care Availability · $144,661

  • Implementing and modernizing in-house data systems to improve healthcare$144,661

  Fostering Collaboration · $239,051

  • The Innovation and Technology initiative$239,051

  Innovative Care · $9,622,874

  • Providing overall project leadership, management, contracting, and oversight of contractors needed to expand all non-"state-owned" RHT Program Tech & Innovation activities$9,622,874

  IT Advances · $7,590,838

  • Provider Connectivity and Rural HIE Expansion: expanding and maintaining health information exchange (HIE) access and data connections for Maine providers serving rural communities, producing monthly HIN utilization reports on rural designation, and developing a Provider and User Engagement and Education Plan$3,225,000
  • The statewide HIE, maintaining connections to more than 3,900 medical providers and organizations statewide, and delivering data transmission, integration, and dissemination services to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention$275,000
  • The Maine Department of Education to procure EMR upgrades and enhancements for school health nurses across school administrative units$440,000
  • Medical Care Development (MCD) to serve as Subrecipient providing project leadership, management, and oversight of Tech & Innovation activities, including training Telehealth Facilitators and implementing the Maine Rural AI Hub$1,346,150
  • Implementing Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) programs and patient-facing digital tools$316,357
  • Staff and researchers working with rural health AI startups and technology developers on innovations for rural health populations$936,640
  • Implementing or modernizing in-house data systems to improve healthcare$102,251
  • Telehealth services for Mainers with intellectual and developmental disabilities residing in rural group homes, ensuring 24/7 immediate care$449,440
  • Expanding community information exchange (CIE) services$500,000

  Program Administration Expense · $57,855

  • Operational support and administrative support for the central oversight of Initiative 3$57,855
• ›Initiative 4: Access: Bridging the healthcare ahordability gap for rural Mainers$525,669

  Fostering Collaboration · $525,669

  • The Access initiative$84,919
  • Partnering with community-based organizations to strengthen and grow transportation programs. Funds would support standardized statewide training, stipends for transportation coordinators, trip scheduling software, volunteer promotion and recruitment activities, etc$440,750
• ›Initiative 5: Sustainable rural health ecosystems: Addressing financial instability of rural providers$2,072,283

  Appropriate Care Availability · $33,766

  • Establishing Maine’s early approach to Initiative Five$33,766

  Fostering Collaboration · $33,967

  • The Sustainable Ecosystems initiative$33,967

  IT Advances · $1,754,550

  • Implementing change requests to MaineCare claims system to implement rates and Alternative Payment Models$250,000
  • Implementing and modernizing in-house data systems to improve healthcare$450,000
  • Publishing a hospital financial measurement dashboard and creating comprehensive benchmarking report$1,054,550

  Training and Technical Assistance · $250,000

  • Developing an adequate, economic, and efficient reimbursement methodology for school- based health centers that rewards high value care$250,000
• ›Program Operations$2,630,258

  IT Advances · $57,855

  • Administrative staff to provide operational and administrative support for Tech & Innovation$57,855

  Program Administration Expense · $2,572,404

  • Operational support and administrative support for the central oversight of the RHT Program$1,991,904
  • Developing dashboards and progress reporting tools internally and externally, supporting continuous improvement, informed decision-making, and stakeholder transparency$580,500