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V O L . X X I I I N O. X X I S E P T E M B E R 1 8 , 2 0 1 7 24 H E A LT H C A R E F O C U S Meanwhile at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover- Foxcroft, president and CEO Marie Vienneau says she just hired an internist who went through Maine Track and bought a house close to his wife's grand- parents. "It's very encouraging to see that happen," she says. Nevertheless it can be di cult lling posts especially in the emergency department, where she often relies on doctors doing temporary stints of up to three months, at three times the cost of an employee. "If you're talking about the rural workforce," she says, "it's not only physicians that are challenging, but also nurses and physical therapists." e University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine also o ers training in primary care and rural medicine, and has more alumni practic- ing in health-profession shortage areas in Maine than Tufts, the University of Vermont and Dartmouth College combined, according to its dean, Jane Carreiro. She insists that the school does not compete with Maine Med or Tufts or even Boston. " e health profession needs people in city centers as well as those practicing in rural areas," she says. "In the end, we're all just trying to recruit the best possible people to take care of their neighbors, the people of Maine." 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Mushroom growers are cultivating a variety of fungi to keep up with demand from chefs and consumers. Southern Maine builds on diverse industries S O U T H E R N M A I N E F O C U S Economy motion S O U T H E R N M A I N E F O C U S S TA R T S O N PA G E 1 1 » in $2.00 July 10, 2017 VO L . X X I I I N O. X V www.mainebiz.biz F U L L C O N T E N T S O N PA G E 4 F O C U S S O U T H E R N M A I N E M U S H R O O M A N D C O N S T R U C T I O N P H O T O S / T I M G R E E N W AY P O R T S M O U T H N AVA L S H I P YA R D P H O T O S / J I M N E U G E R 12 Anchoring Kittery The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a major employer in southern Maine, gears up for the future. 16 A real estate surge A shortage of existing homes has contractors scrambling to meet the demand for housing. 19 Ag's next wave? Mushroom growers are cultivating a variety of fungi to keep up with demand from chefs and consumers. Southern Maine builds on diverse industries S O U T H E R N M A I N E F O C U S Economy motion S O U T H E R N M A I N E F O C U S S TA R T S O N PA G E 1 1 » in $2.00 July 10, 2017 VO L . X X I I I N O. X V www.mainebiz.biz New Mainers get EMT training at SMCC • • • • • • • - — "I'm sending you out to do primary triage," Eric Wellman tells his class at Southern Maine Community College. This morning there are about eight students, all from different countries, learning how to become emergency medical technicians (EMTs). The pro- gram was launched in January for new Mainers after Scarborough-based North East Mobile Health Services expressed a need for more trained EMTs. SMCC, which offers an associate degree in emergency medi- cal services, launched the course with funding from the Maine Quality Centers and the John T. Gorman Foundation. It includes an English learning component. "Their vocabulary is actually superb when it comes to medical terminology," says Wellman, a trained para- medic who chairs SMCC's emergency medical ser- vices department. Today's mass-casualty simulation centers on a nat- ural-gas boiler explosion at a local business, with as many as 15 people inside at the time including children. Like a dispatcher on the scene, Wellman gives students 10 minutes to nd as many patients as possible and triage them according to what they just learned. Instead of tagging people with red, green, yellow, or, in the case of death, black, they are given a scorecard to record information on each patient. Patients are not real people, but numbered sheets of paper randomly scattered throughout the building list their symptoms. Most students return to class having found all 19, some beyond the allotted 10 minutes. Wellman does a rundown of each patient and treatment: No. 2, no sign of life (black tag, "If that's not dead, I don't know what is"); No. 3, walk- ing but bleeding (green tag, rst responders move on; No. 6, screaming child, alert and walking (green) and No. 8, can't walk, respiratory problems (red tag for immediate treatment). In real life, Wellman says, rst responders would have limited time and resources, even when it comes to nding ambulances. "This is, at best, organized chaos," he tells them. "It's much like herding cats." He also notes that "a lot of rules get broken" dur- ing an initial triage. His words don't seem to rattle students, many of whom have a medical background but may not have the necessary certi cations to do similar work in the United States. Most are there to improve their English while working in a familiar eld. "This is our profession, so that makes it easier," says Pamela Nyota, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she was a nurse. Cedrick Wa Bisembo, who had been a surgeon, has a long-term goal of becoming an epidemiologist. "I have rst to improve my language skills," he says. After the class wraps up in October, students will have up to a year to sit for their EMT registry exam, and those that pass will then get to interview with NEMS, whose CEO Butch Russell says he has 20 openings. P H O T O / C O U R T E S Y S M C C Cedrick Wa Bisembo, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, takes the blood pressure of Evie Wellman (daughter of instructor Eric Wellman) during a recent class. We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying We're all just trying to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best to recruit the best possible people. — Jane Carreiro UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine

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