Parkview Adventist Medical Center

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How do I get to Parkview?
Where do I find a list of doctors?
Is Parkview closing?
Why is Parkview a Seventh-day Adventist hospital?
Will Parkview accept my personal faith practices beliefs?
Can I ask my ambulance driver to take me to Parkview?
Is Parkview high-tech?
Does my doctor have to practice at Parkview for me to receive treatment?
Do I have to eat vegetarian food as a patient at Parkview?
What is Spirit of Women?
What is Lifestyle Choices?
What is Parkview's relationship with CMMC?

How do I get to Parkview?

Please click here for directions to Parkview Adventist Medical Center.

Where do I find a list of doctors?

Our comprehensive list of all physicians and their specialties.

Is Parkview closing?

For more than a decade, an urban legend has grown in the Brunswick community that Parkview Adventist Medical Center would be closing.

Parkview celebrated 50 years of operations in 2009 as a 55-bed, acute care medical center and has won many awards for patient safety, quality care and advanced technology.

Modern medicine and timeless compassion have made Parkview one of Brunswick's most vital businesses.

For five decades, you have relied on Parkview's Emergency Department, which is staffed by board-certified physicians, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.

You have watched Parkview expand its Infusion Center, open new facilities in Topsham, build a LifeFlight of Maine helipad, install the latest radiology equipment, and rank highest in Maine, year after year, for medication safety. You have watched Parkview win awards for patient satisfaction, state-of-the-art technology and electronic medical records. You have enjoyed Parkview's top-notch cuisine and your loved ones have been compassionately nurtured by Parkview chaplains and clinical staff.

Parkview counts on you, its satisfied patients, to tell your neighbors that Parkview's best years lie ahead!

Why is Parkview a Seventh-day Adventist hospital?

Seventh-day Adventist Christians have a renowned history of serving communities through healthcare.

Parkview Adventist Medical Center was established in 1959 to operate as part of a worldwide humanitarian mission.

Parkview's founding physicians believed in supporting and strengthening the Adventist philosophy of healthcare, which is to provide patients with whole-person healing. Today, Parkview is the only not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in Maine.

Around the world, the Adventist Church operates hundreds of healthcare facilities dedicated to helping people achieve wholeness of mind, body, and spirit. This approach influences many of our personal lifestyle choices and continues to shape Parkview's philosophy of healthcare.

Parkview's "Prayer-Positive" environment extends the healing ministry of Christ to every patient. Our mission depends not only on our commitment to Christian ideals but on our efforts to provide nothing less than extraordinary compassionate care.

For more information on the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its beliefs, link to http://www.adventist.org/

Will Parkview accept my personal faith practices beliefs?

Parkview respects and honors the sacred beliefs of all patients. The Pastoral Care Department makes chaplains available to listen to your thoughts and prayers.

Can I ask my ambulance driver to take me to Parkview?

Yes, you certainly can request that you and your family be treated at Parkview, where you will find board-certified emergency physicians from the Central Maine Medical Center's emergency room physician network, waiting to serve you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Is Parkview high-tech?

In March 2009, Parkview became the 26th most advanced hospital (out of 5,053), in the application an utilization of electronic medical records.

Parkview is one of only six Maine hospitals awarded accreditation for stereotactic breast biopsy.
Parkview received the 2010 Pulmonary Care Excellence Award and ranked among the best in the nation for bedside medication, verification, and patient safety.
Parkview ranked alongside large metropolitan hospitals for early adoption of advanced electronic medical records.
Parkview is known in Maine for its achievements in radiological advancements, virtual colonoscopies, pulmonary care excellence, and much more.
Parkview was awarded IDG's InfoWorld 100 prize for biometric fingerprint security programs. InfoWorld 100 is an editorially-selected award that recognizes the world’s top 100 IT projects that use technology in smart and innovative ways to further business goals.

Does my doctor have to practice at Parkview for me to receive treatment?

If your doctor does not practice at Parkview, your care will be managed by a team of hospitalists¾that is, doctors who specialize in inpatient care, and who coordinate with your primary care physician.

Whether or not your own primary care physician has established privileges to work at Parkview, you may have your treatments performed here and your laboratory can be completed by Parkview's clinical staff. The results are sent directly to your physician.

Parkview's hospitalists will oversee your stay, 24-hours-a-day, from the time of admission until discharge. The hospitalist becomes your doctor "away from home."

Do I have to eat vegetarian food as a patient at Parkview?

No. Parkview promotes a diet rich in unprocessed plant foods that are high in fiber, and rich in vitamins and nutrients. Meat is available to all inpatients.

Qualified nutrition staff will oversee your personal choice of foods, including meat, poultry and fish.

All meat purchased by Parkview is locally-raised at organic farms, where the use of artificial growth hormones is prohibited.

What is Spirit of Women?

The Spirit of Women Health Network is a national coalition of healthcare organizations joined together to improve women's health by inspiring access and action.

Relying on national resources to improve healthcare in local communities, Spirit of Women educates women in a manner that emphasizes total well-being—in body, mind, and spirit.

This approach impacts all aspects of a woman’s life, such as family, health and work.

Other health topics of importance to women include menopause, cancer, incontinence, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and healthy lifestyles. For more information, see www.SpiritofWomen.com.

What is Lifestyle Choices?

Lifestyle Choices is a comprehensive program designed to give you skills and knowledge to live a healthier life. This popular, two-week series will inspire you to make positive changes toward a better, healthier you.

You will sample many healthful foods and take part in a pre-assessment and post-assessment to give you a personal look at your blood studies, fitness evaluations, nutritional standing, and Personal Wellness Profile. You will spend time with a physical therapist in order to start a regular physical activity program that is appropriate for your personal wellness goals.

You will meet with other attendees five nights a week, for two consecutive weeks. Each night of Lifestyle Choices you will engage in physical activity, supper meal, cooking demonstrations, and physician-led, eye-opening talks.

Toward the end of the program, you will participate in a "field trip" to the local grocery story to begin the practice of concepts learned about nutrition and healthy food choices.

Proven, typical results from participation include a reduction in your:

Cholesterol by 30-50 points
Triglycerides by 20 points
Weight by an average of seven pounds
LDL by 46 points
Body fat by 1.5%
Glucose
Blood Pressure

Proven, typical results from participation include an increase in your:

Strength
Flexibility
Sleep patterns
Energy

Parkview's Lifestyle Choices presents science and practical applications, along with the full support of our clinical staff to begin your journey toward improved health.

For more information, contact the Wellness Department at 373.2162. Click here to register for the March-April 2010 Lifestyle Choices program.

What is Parkview's relationship with CMMC?

Parkview plans to join the Central Maine Medical Family. At present, the affiliation affords Parkview patients access to services such as pain management and sports medicine that the community otherwise did not provide.

Your patient medical information remains consistent, your insurance will not change, and you can be attended by your same physician in the same office as you have been.

As always, you can count on Parkview's compassionate medical attention, but with a bonus of direct and complete access to big-city expertise. Our patients will see nothing different in the practices.

Why the change?

For many years, Parkview has collaborated with CMMC physicians to help provide extraordinary Emergency Department services to the Brunswick community. Parkview patients receive the best.

As this ongoing partnership has evolved, CMMC's trauma-experienced physicians continue to serve Parkview patients 24-hours a day, seven days a week.

As a natural result of Parkview's long-standing affiliation with the Central Maine Medical Family in Lewiston, one of Maine's most prominent cardiac care and trauma centers, Parkview's Board of Directors elected to join the Central Maine Medical Family to permit direct access to a greater number of colleagues and specialties, and to be part of a larger organization. This allows for greater efficiency and more resources for our patients.

Consider the two-way benefit of this collaboration. Parkview can help people better, while increasing its buying power and referral strengths. CMMC loves Parkview's philosophy of health and the small-town attention we give our patients.

We are delighted to call Central Maine Medical our family.

Parkview: Our Best Years Lie Ahead.

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