Since we prioritize high-quality care, we put our patients first when it comes to how we deliver exams, diagnostics, and treatments. At Central Maine Healthcare, we want you to feel like you’re among caring friends who value your needs and wants. As such, we have a high commitment to excellence, and we provide the highest quality of care close to the places you call home.
Women’s Choice Award®
Our Sam and Jennie Bennet Breast Care Center was recognized for their excellent care by being named one of America’s Best Breast Centers by the Women’s Choice Award®. To qualify for this prestigious award, a hospital must meet certain standards and receive specific types of positive reviews. By receiving this award, Central Maine Healthcare has been recognized as being in the top 1% of breast care centers in the nation. This recognition shows our determination to offer quality care and our commitment to always working with our patients to create the best outcomes.
This award also focuses on the perspective of women, considering their specific needs and wants when choosing their care. For our female patients, this offers a view of our commitment to respectful care that considers the specific needs of each individual patient. We value your perspective and unique needs.
ACR Breast Stereotactic Accredited Center of Excellence – Bennett Breast Center Mammography
ACR Breast Ultrasound Accredited Center of Excellence – Breast Ultrasound
ACR Mammography Accredited Center of Excellence – Bennett Breast Center Mammography
ACR MQSA (Mammography Quality Standards Act) – Bennett Breast Center: The intent of this legislation was to establish minimum standards to ensure that all women have access to quality mammography services.
Maine Perinatal Quality Collaborative: AIM Hypertensive Crisis Bundle – Maternity: The bundle provides actionable steps that can be adapted to a variety of facilities and resource levels to improve quality of care and outcomes for patients experiencing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Newsweek: America’s Best Maternity Hospitals 2024 – Maternity: The ranking is based on a nationwide online survey of hospital managers and medical professionals (regarding areas like perinatal care and operative obstetrics) as well as publicly available data from hospital surveys addressing the patient experience (including topics such as cleanliness and communication about medication).
Data on hospital quality metrics—like the number of elective deliveries and level of personnel vaccination—was provided from several sources, including nonprofit hospital accreditation organization The Joint Commission, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
National Consortium of Breast Centers and NQMBC – Breast Center of Excellence: This is the highest certification level. This certification recognizes a center’s quality performance as meeting quality standards criteria. In addition to the requirements to become a Certified Quality Breast Center, the Certified Quality Breast Center of Excellence applicant must have supplied 90% of the measures for which their quality breast center type should be able to measure performance.
U.S. News & World Report: High Performing in Maternity Care U.S. News evaluates how well hospitals perform in childbirth using C-section rates, newborn complication rates, breast milk feeding rates, early elective delivery rates, routine vaginal birth after cesarean delivery (VBAC) rates, episiotomy rates, whether a hospital meets new federal criteria for “birthing-friendly” practices, and whether a hospital tracked and reported their outcomes for patients of different races and ethnicities.
Blue Distinction Center (Blue Cross Blue Shield National Programs) – Maternity Care (BDC+): Blue Distinction Centers and Blue Distinction Centers+ for maternity care demonstrate expertise and a commitment to quality care for vaginal and cesarean section deliveries. These centers demonstrate lower episiotomies, fewer elective deliveries and lower cesarean births.
Access the provider directory of Blue Distinction Centers or Blue Distinction Centers+ designated providers for maternity care. Review the program selection criteria.
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