The MaineHealth Education & Training department helps providers, patients, community members and health professionals access credible, up-to-date and understandable health information. We offer:

• Health literacy expertise and trainings for MaineHealth care teams
• Best practice patient education development
• The MaineHealth Learning Resource Center
• Health education for communities and patients via online class platform

We can help you engage, educate and connect with patients to improve health outcomes.

Care Team Education

MaineHealth Education & Training is dedicated to improving care team confidence and knowledge about patient-centered communication and plain language standards. We create customized training opportunities including short workshops, day-long trainings, brown bag lunch sessions, web-based learning modules and more.

Topics include:

• Health literacy & plain language writing
• Stress reduction for patients and staff
  
• Behavior change strategies
  - Learn more about way to engage your patients in making healthy lifestyle changes
• Advance care planning