Established in 2006, MaineHealth Let’s Go! is a community engagement initiative working with communities to create environments that support healthy choices.
Evidence-based strategies are used to promote policy, systems, and environmental changes that facilitate healthy, active living in early care and education programs, schools, out-of-school programs and health care practices in Maine and Carroll County, New Hampshire in support of the MaineHealth vision of "working together so our communities are the healthiest in America."
MaineHealth Healthy, Active Living Strategic Plan
We advance equitable access and eliminate barriers in both clinical and community environments to promote healthier behaviors, delivering meaningful, sustainable outcomes for the communities we serve.
- Increase healthy, active living behaviors for children, youth, and adults.
- Reduce healthcare expenditures associated with preventable chronic diseases.
- Expand access to programs and resources through scalable evidence-based solutions
- Reduce barriers to adopting health behaviors
- Drive impact through data, technology, quality improvement and research
- Sustain integration through viable revenue pathways
Create
Key strategy: Create environments that support healthy choices where people live, learn, work and receive care
Metrics
- Number of program level environmental changes
- Number of children/youth/adults reached through programs
Educate
Key strategy: Educate using evidence-based information
Metrics
- Number of educational materials/messages developed and disseminated
- Number of participants/patients reached through classes
Collaborate
Key strategy: Collaborate for broad reaching, efficient impact
Metrics
- Number of state, regional and national organizations we collaborate with
- Number of shared tools across MaineHealth
Advocate
Key strategy: Advocate for policy and systems change
Metrics
- Number of program level policy changes being adopted/reported
- Number of systems changes implemented
- Number of insurers providing Food is Medicine benefits
Optimize
Key strategy: Optimize impact using data, technology and continued learning
Metrics
- Improved healthy, active living behavior data monitoring in EPIC
- Improved adherence to childhood obesity standards of care by leveraging EPIC-enabled workflows and clinical decision support
- Number of Food is Medicine approaches measured
Let's Go! Program Outcomes and Overview
Check out this snapshot to learn more about our programs, strategies and community impact.